For pointing out that French civilization is in serious decline, Zemmour is smeared as a racist. But his message is resonating because it’s true.
Conservative French journalist and commentator Éric Zemmour announced this week he’s running for French president in elections next year, disrupting a race many had assumed would be a 2017 rematch between President Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen.
Whether Zemmour has a real shot at the French presidency — he polled well throughout the fall, although his numbers have begun to slide — is probably too soon to say. But Zemmour’s candidacy is important less for his prospects than his longstanding message, articulated in a string of best-selling books and regular TV appearances: France is in steep decline, fueled by the loss of traditional French and Christian values, mass Muslim immigration, and the feminization of French society.
That message has a growing audience in France because it is more or less true, and the French people know it. Decades of Muslim immigration without significant assimilation have transformed parts of France into something unrecognizable to older French people and undesirable to a growing cadre of younger French conservatives.
For this latter group, Zemmour’s unapologetic bluntness is refreshing in a media environment where it’s considered somehow racist or bigoted to point out what has become undeniable about the state of French civilization. In a video announcing his candidacy, Zemmour gave a rousing defense of French civilization, calling for a radical return to national greatness. “It is no longer time to reform France, but to save it,” he said, and warned his supporters that they would be tarred as racists.
full story at https://thefederalist.com/2021/12/03/it-isnt-racist-for-eric-zemmour-to-say-what-everyone-in-france-knows-is-true/