Airstrip One

Good point

Peter Briffa points out that:

Le Pen clearly is a nasty piece of work, but the liberalists do tend to cry wolf a bit. The name-calling of all their oponents as racist, extremist, and xenophobic does create a law of diminishing returns, you know.

Quite.

And I do think Andrew Dodge goes a little too far in his Vive Le Pen.

Meanwhile David Carr over at the "critically rational libertarian" Samizdata says that the far right tide has some way to go. I personally don't think so, and I think that the natural ebbing of the far right will be mis-sold to us as a triumph of our complacent elites.