To the delight of our Western legacy media, the European ruling class has struck again. Last week Marine Le Pen, the head of France’s National Rally (NR) party who, according to the Associated Press, National Public Radio, the French press, and neoconservative sources, is a demonic “far right” figure, was found guilty of embezzlement.

It seems that between 2006 and 2016, public money designated for EU assistants had been diverted to paying the salaries of NR staffers, an offense the French media has kept on the front burner for nine years. Le Pen was held personally responsible for this supposedly grave offense, and last week she was sentenced to a fine equivalent to US$108,000, jail time that will be spent in home detention with a tracking device on her leg, and suspension from French politics for the next five years.

According to French national polls, Le Pen would win 37 percent of the vote cast in the French presidential race scheduled to take place in two years. This polling result would place her well ahead of any conceivable competitor for the French presidency. Although in the first round of the French présidentielle, Le Pen, daughter of the famous nationalist firebrand Jean Le Pen, would surpass her competitors in votes, she would nonetheless fail to garner a majority of the votes cast. Therefore, in the second round, parties to her left would unite around a single candidate and, as in the past, keep the real right from winning the presidential race.

Since, however, such a brazen display of clear support for an unauthorized, non-globalist candidate is unsettling the European ruling class, judges have decided whom “the public is allowed to vote for,” as Éric Zemmour, head of the even more politically incorrect Reconquest nationalist party, pointed out following the judge’s ruling.

Zemmour, of course, knows whereof he speaks. Last week, a Paris court required him to pay a €9,000fine (US$9,700) or do jail time, for noting that there is a double standard of justice in his country, one for the indigenous French and another for North African Muslims. This leader of the French right (who is incidentally of Moroccan Jewish ancestry) has been held responsible for sowing “intercommunal discord” by noting the soaring crime rate among Muslim immigrants. This elicited an especially acidic commentary from Zemmour when a European French youth was knifed by a Muslim at a festive event in the town of Crépol in November 2022. His references to the Arab-Muslim dregs (racailles arabo-musulmanes) who demonstrably prey on the native French has brought down on his head the combined invective of the entire multicultural left. As expected, the judiciary has now entered the lists for advocates of a globalist, bureaucratized, denationalized France.

Aside from the heavy hand of the post-democratic judiciary, we’ve already seen the Eurocrats take charge of situations that pose a threat to their concept of “liberal democracy.” German Chancellor Angela Merkel won the praise of the entire European political establishment when she “rearranged” the election results in the German state of Thuringia in June 2022—in which its governor, Thomas Kemmerich, dared to get himself elected with the votes of the stigmatized Alternative for Germany party (AfD). The chancellor found it “inexcusable” that a provincial leader should be elected with what we were warned was neo-Nazi support.

Then we also just had the replacement of a duly elected Romanian president, Călin Georgescu, courtesy of Romanian courts, responding to complaints from EU bureaucrats. The Associated Press, true to its present ideological commitment, assured us that the Romanians had just dodged the “far right” bullet, by removing from competition for the presidency a Russian asset. (Don’t wait for compelling proof!) Please note that news agencies now do the bidding of the ruling class and, as in the blackening of Le Pen, Zemmour, Kemmerich, and Georgescu, these former news sources now repeat the newspeak of the rulers they serve. 

In all the cases cited, we see the obvious disconnect of antinational, woke rule from anything resembling the popular will. The legacy media and publicly subsidized educational institutions work to shape what is called “public opinion” to accord with a prefabricated democratic will supplied by these elites. If the people prove defiant and make the wrong political choices, then the rulers with their multiple assistants will make arrangements to supply the proper decisions for them. Hate speech is now defined as defending the one-time population whom the ruling class has decided to replace. And objecting to this replacement puts the objector on the same moral level as a commandant of Auschwitz.

The removal of Le Pen from French elections seems to follow what the left attempted to do to Donald Trump before his November victory. If someone who might upset the system is elected to a high office, the courts will work to prevent that from happening.  Although there is no way that Le Pen would become Macron’s successor with only 37 percent of the vote, cooperation between parties on the nationalist right could bring that number into the 40 percent range. This would cast a shadow on the legitimacy of whatever hack the establishment parties could arrange to make sure their candidate came out on top. Worse, from their point of view, is that their hypothetical victor would obviously be far less popular than the “far right” candidate being kept from an office to which she is far more entitled.