‘Calm before the storm’: National Rally loss in France is ‘not’ breaking right-wing wave

Webster University Assistant Professor Ralph Schoellhammer says the defeat of the National Rally in France’s election is not the breaking of the right-wing wave but he “calm before the storm”.
Riots have erupted in France following the defeat of the National Rally in the elections.
“This was not the breaking of the right-wing wave that is building in Europe,” Mr Schoellhammer told Sky News host Danica De Giorgio.
“This is more the calm before the storm because the trendlines are still there.”

[@clintonreisig]

Right Wing is strengthening every minute

[@robertbruce1482]

Q, Has a bird two wings? Q, Are these wings attached to the same BIRD? Perhaps the problem is the whole mass is broken.

[@nowhere529]

While the Invaders arrive by the millions, I wish the right Good luck.

[@mariahewitt9787]

WEF is behind all this. One World Government, One World Religion. "You will own nothing, and you will will be happy" !!!!

[@mariahewitt9787]

And the TRUTH disappears as usual!

[@thomjanson9644]

100% 💪🏻

[@nowhere529]

The Indigenous French voted for Le Pen.

[@JoXcalibur]

Not their country anymore. Stop saying far right when referring to normal patriotic people.

[@jasonjohns6749]

you mean the minority

[@lisamichelle3451]

More so in the provinces than Paris

[@steventyler3582]

At all the left rallies all the flags flying are for Palestine. That tells you all you should need to know.

[@takeiteasy2232]

Take up arms

[@hienhuynh4786]

keep fighting French patriots !!

[@taliabraver]

France is gone.

[@TerryKnight-hw3pg]

​@@taliabraverGone but not forgotten.

[@user-european_conservator]

I am praying for France and Le Pen❤ God bless France, French people and Marine Le Pen🙏🏻🇫🇷

[@ironkaider]

I think it got rigged. Like what happened to trump in 2020.

[@colinmeehan791]

@@ironkaider Macron is a snake.

[@Christlover2020]

God says lean not lean on your own understanding. God is at work!

[@duskokukolj5571]

​@@ironkaideri meni je to palo na pamet!Lako moguće da je namješteno!

[@user-european_conservator]

@@ironkaider like in 2022 when Le Pen lost to Macron

[@SeanBotha]

La pen 9.3 million Nearest opposition 5.1 million System won la pen did not loose

[@Aaronwhatnow]

She did but.

[@cakplanglah3306]

How the left strategically "won"to destroy their own country.i am saying this as a 52years old who witness the Muslim grow from 40% to 70%and change the secular system to Islamic...

[@Bluestripsenclavelove]

@@Aaronwhatnow10+ parties teaming up with the radicals

[@Aaronwhatnow]

And? That's very normal in their elections. If the far right could they would too. ​@Bluestripsenclavelove

[@trudeausbackbone1304]

​@@Aaronwhatnow She didn't. The system is rigged.

[@daveabd]

Stop calling them Far Right. use the commonsense, the silent majority term. use it all the time.

[@Gough-jf9zf]

They're not the majority. First round, they won the most seats, not an absolute majority. 2nd round, they lost. If they were the majority, there'd have been no need for a 2nd round.

[@mjones4083]

They are the (so far) right and upwards and upwards to them .

[@WHU63]

Macron sold his soul to the lefties and communists.

[@Carde135]

@@Gough-jf9zf First party in France but third block of the Assembly.

[@Gough-jf9zf]

@@Carde135 Their threat and power happily greatly diminished by the accommodation and amity of a variety of parties. Can you imagine le Pen's party ever making the compromises and concessions granted by the left and centre parties? They'd never do it, they're too rigid. France's tranquility and security is assured for another few years while the far right grind their teeth to nubs.

[@genxmurse7019]

I am literally crying inside my head for the REAL people of France!

[@twentysecondcenturywoman]

Same here. I feel so bad for them and the English. Pray for the United States, Canada & Europe!!!

[@georgewilson9121]

call it right left or up the middle its insaine filling your country with people that hate you,

[@derekskinner4939]

I hope your prayers extend to 17,400,000 BREXITEERS who have been stitched up by the socialists who have infiltrated the mainstream parties, Judiciary and the Establishment since the Edward, liar (CAP) , Heath Premiership. VOTE REFORM UK: FROM THE SHIRES TO THE SEA, THEY WILL SET US FREE, FROM SOCIALISM 🤺 🇬🇬 🇬🇧

[@rhodium4274]

The National Rally went from 11 seats in parliament to 89 to 143! How can this glorious progress be described as a "loss"?

[@DreadNawght]

each second they're not in office protecting the people of france from being abused by the government is a loss

[@mdelcb9915]

Because they can't tell the truth, that the other parties cheated, removing hundreds of candidates to push votes on one direction, and making alliances. This is how a party with 30% less votes and another with 40% less votes are going to stay in power, doing the same they've been doing to make sure that they will never be defeated You know, same as certain man with a moustache used the Weimar constitution to seize power

[@kartikmall5656]

And also RN became the biggest single political party in the French parliament with most seats.

[@kailashchimbaikar6286]

I think in the 2nd round they used the US Dominion voting system to count the votes.

[@gravitatemortuus1080]

Its propaganda designed to demoralize the right. People need to ignore it and keep on supporting who they want.

[@Del-Canada]

They never really lost, the other parties created a desperate coalition because they couldn't do it alone.

[@wolfu597]

Exactly, they barely managed to avoid a disaster. And now everybody has seen the tricks they're ready to use. Which in turn will only serve to strengthen the Right.

[@domenicvecchio2910]

The right wing conservatives have had a coalition government in Australia for decades otherwise they would have never won an election. The f*cking stupidity of Sky News who keep telling us how strong the Right wing conservative party's are but have been spanked by the left wing Labor party and the conservative Tory party got slapped down as well. Sky News the sister network of Fox News the network of lies . Just ask Dominion voting machines how Fix News lied about the 2020 election being stolen and boy didn't that go badly for Fox News to the tune of over $780,000,000 . So who are the liers really.

[@jimwinebrenner620]

Wow! A man actually speaking truth and common sense!

[@rajanthony358]

France le pen will win again.france for France people's . France Christian country.dont give up France wake up!

[@frodoskywalker4696]

RIP France 😩😩😩😩😩😩

[@komisossoutsidi5801]

bro they literally got the most votes

[@kokocaptainqc]

@@komisossoutsidi5801 yeah it proves that having the most votes doesnt matter anymore doesnt it?

[@Meld61]

Not only has France lost its empire ( recently) its lost its own country too .

[@TerenceBischoff]

Handed the keys over to Islam.... In reflection should have just handed them to Germany after blitzkrieg. At least it would have remained European....

[@user-jd2fe1pu4w]

As has Great Britain and America. Gee, what a coincidence! (Not.)

[@tankdempsey84]

​@@user-jd2fe1pu4w maybe the uk but America is still standing strong

[@bonniebluebell5940]

@@TerenceBischoff TRUE.

[@tedthesailor172]

The issues that gave rise to the "right-wing populists" haven't gone away, and under the extreme left wing they will worsen, and ultimately drive even more to support the "right-wing populists". Give it another term, and the right-wing will likely win an overall majority...

[@RajeshSingh-ss8pq]

Praying for le pen real patriot real heroine real leader salute le pen save France by jihadi

[@jaybo8136]

Keep fighting for your country french patriots.

[@markmorrid8144]

It's always darkest before the dawn 👍✌️Le pen Trump farage wilders .

[@oldyellerschannel4676]

You are forgetting that it was Biden, at the debate, who first challenged Trump to a golf game. Biden still thinks he's "got it"!!

[@Gough-jf9zf]

Trump's probably never won a round without cheating. There's any number of clips of him cheating.

[@twentysecondcenturywoman]

Pray for France. Pray for Europe. Pray for The United States. Pray for Canada. Pray for the west. Pray for the world.

[@seniormale]

In Canada, we pray that Lord Justine goes to hell ..👸

[@user-lm9gn8fp2l]

The man speaks the truth

[@SonBarbock]

The trend is: French RN party's support has been steadily growing year after year. The more chaos and discomfort the left causes, the further right-wing people will lean. So keep it up they/thems.

[@sd906238]

Macron needs to go back to playing LeBeau on Hogan's Heroes.

[@raymondparnell439]

Pauline Hanson must be our next PM ! SKY NEWS MUST HELP US GET THIS DONE. SHE IS THE MOST SENSIBLE LOYAL POLITICIAN THATS BEEN ARKUND A LONG TIME. SHE DESERVES IT ! WE DESERVE IT ! 😊😊

[@wuper2270]

Less than 3 percent of the vote, never going to happen 😂🤣

[@elenawalker3746]

She's a Senator.

[@Gough-jf9zf]

@@elenawalker3746 I was handing out How-to-votes for a WA _state_ election on polling day. The team of One Nation volunteers near me were very confident that at the close of counting that night, Pauline would be elected PM. It's cruel to spoil the dreams of her followers.

[@bradwilliams1691]

​@@wuper2270The pro Hamas Fatima Payman got into government with 1600 votes!

[@lighteningrod36]

If the mining industry that steals our tax revenue, let’s her?

[@GentlemanH]

The problem with common sense is that it is not very common. More common sense please. ☹

[@sandraclick7812]

People are now anti-God and His holy words , thus common (natural, normal, sensible, factual) sense He ordained, is being taken over by evil !

[@pinarellolimoncello]

The problem is the expanSION of the human race with no expanSION of consciousness, lack of any level of comprehenSION hence the imploSION of a beautiful country . What has happened to anthropology rather than politics . Look up the book, The wretched of the Earth , European colonialism is what keeps the world in poverty and thus leads to mass immigration and dispora's , is human nature to migrate towards something better , be it the latest iPhone or country that isn't a war torn hell hole run by allah/satn.

[@joeybrown3583]

Define right wing!

[@josephmurphy1509]

Just 'right'

[@janepearson5802]

Common sense

[@mjones4083]

The clue is in the meaning of "right " .

[@Carde135]

People defending their children’s future

[@beaterbikechannel2538]

Those who have had enough of living in fear from a threat the powers that be will not acknowledge.

[@RajeshSingh-ss8pq]

Anyway marine le pen real patriot real heroine real leader salute le pen save France

[@seandelap8587]

If it was a fair fight she would have won and we all know it

[@Gough-jf9zf]

Nope, "we" don't. Wishful thinking is not reality.

[@sylviel135]

And in your version of reality, what is being built for the future ? Chaos , look at the conduct!!

[@Carde135]

@@Gough-jf9zf Without the unnatural alliance of oppositions, carp and rabbit mariage, victory would not have been possible for the left. The difficulties have only just begun for the left. The Prime Minister has already warned that under no circumstances will he work with the far left. Marine Le Pen has the bigest party in France.

[@reaper-ce1jx]

​@@Gough-jf9zf she literally won lmao. She got the most votes. But of course you had to cheat and merge parties.

[@truepatriots3860]

I would bet money on Trump 👍

[@Gough-jf9zf]

So long as you don't bet _with_ him. He'd never pay you.

[@mariahewitt9787]

Did you Buy one of his Bibles???

[@mariahewitt9787]

Your Orange Messiah???😡🤬

[@Gough-jf9zf]

@@mariahewitt9787 I've heard he had the word 'god' removed and replaced with 'Trump'.

[@OralWillis-tf4lo]

Tou and your old bastard TRUMP

[@kierandrakos6024]

Keep fighting

[@SorminaEriana]

Sunak had been changed by Staimer, Macron had been changed by Marine Le Penn, now the turn of US, will Biden and Harris will follow them? Excuse me, want to sleep, so sleepy😴😴😴😴😴 🤫

[@Tottorul]

When you go right wing the likelihood of going left wing is increasingly small in these times, especially for men, impossible to shake the perspective

[@twal3]

Sad, but apparently it needs to get MUCH worse before things finally turn around. Same feeling when I decided to leave Los Angeles.

[@thinkfree652]

The French people lost France again. Never accept a migration from any country or you will lose your country. Fight to keep what you have while you can.

[@ThePorkReport]

Well said.

[@TheKisj]

Goodbye France 🫡🇧🇻🇨🇵

[@martinepstein3332]

Yes, well done Spain in the Euros semi final

[@AttackTheGasStation1]

National Rally is the biggest side in terms of numbers : 10 millions.

[@whiskeygamer9402]

RIP France you're all screwed 😂

[@martinepstein3332]

Still a great country

[@uldispaze7325]

France without Paris would become more better country. The same in USAwith Washington DC

[@whiskeygamer9402]

@@uldispaze7325 Better? As long as you don't mind living in third world conditions poverty and homelessness.

[@bartholomew941]

Sad article

[@ansc6472]

@@martinepstein3332no it’s not. Ask the French priest who was beheaded by an Islamist…wait you can’t

[@eurasia1963]

I agree,i genuinely think people have had enough and i also think that EU is just too plain stupid to understand it ,and i think it will continue and if things dont change it is going to kick off big time,same as in UK now,can feel the tension wherever you go .....

[@boyasia5874]

The national rally has no party in coalition..it stood on its own compared to others who won a majority because of their coalition. National rally is a success.

[@Leftyintollerable]

From this day forth, France will be known as Francistan.

[@harolddenning7505]

What a massive stitch up. So much for democracy.

[@trippingandroid3832]

We cannot rely on voting or democracy.

[@sandraclick7812]

Pray to Almighty God and seek help through His mercy and grace !

[@jackgaynor8241]

Amen to that!

[@somesassybrat305]

Ganging up on someone is seen as something utterly cowardly and vile, and only shows weakness. In politics it's called "opposing the far right" and "the people's will" Pathetic.

[@kareneventer673]

Give that man a Bell's!!! He called it like it is....100% correct!!!👏👏👏

[@deborahbuchanan3238]

What he is saying is SO TRUE! Thank you!

[@danielk7111]

Macron is far left, obviously.

[@MichaelKingsfordGray]

The Storm before the Calm, surely?

[@forbaldo1]

see the Revolutions of 1848 there was no instant change but there was new Direction unlike the Arab spring

[@uldispaze7325]

WWIII

[@through-faith-alone]

The Great Calm

[@ansc6472]

No calm with Islam

[@DA-yd2ny]

STOP CALLING PEOPLE WITH COMMON SENSE FAR RIGHT

[@dovbarleib3256]

The Right wing French fly a French flag. The Centrist French fly the EU flag. The Leftist French fly a PLO Palestinian flag. And the Far Leftist French fly the Hamas flag!

[@williamstephenson2550]

Absolutely

[@Thetenmaumau]

What Napoleon, Joan of Arc and Luis XIV have in common? They are all looking at eachother saying ... Merde !!!

[@SaltyShaman]

Marie Antoinette is laughing her ass off ;)

[@sanniepstein4835]

Charles Martel is outraged.

[@BozoTheclown-cs9mk]

Yup, dream on.

[@richardpeychers4076]

This man is spot on with his views.

[@donniejobe5662]

Watching from Yuma, Arizona, USA.

[@iamkesha.]

I agree with everything this gentleman said about those left wing so-called leaders being the radicals. He made me feel a little bit better saying we should not give up on the rightward shift because it is happening.

[@molex114]

When political parties sell their principles and aline with parties they don't like to stay in power, you can guarantee they won't have any principles when they are in power

[@lisamichelle3451]

Hopefully they will devour each other into oblivion

[@nataliarossin9171]

Praying for common sense and Le Pen

[@pando4000]

I love the winners seems to think the other side just disappeared along with all their convictions. I dont think thats how it works

[@petervijverberg9542]

So right 🙏🙏

[@BrunoBoudmer]

Près de 12 millions de ceux qui ont voté, emboîter pour le front national. C'est-à-dire environ 1 sur trois. Et pourtant à cause des "magouilles"des politiciens ils ont été privés de leur voix. Si vous appelez ça démocratie, et bien pas moi.

[@g.s.5868]

bougnoules et magrebiens....amis de la police, ils se voient tres souvent

She looks far better than her voice..

[@gregfaris6959]

The French far Left did not "defeat the far right in an election shock". The peoples' votes did not change between the first and second rounds. What happened is that France suffered a Coup d'Etat, and it is likely we have not even begun to see the repercussions of this.

[@midwest3070]

Did he say Joe Biden is the smartest man ever in the white house😂😂

[@michaelnordin2662]

Not really correct. Le Pens' National Rally got 10,110,013 votes in the second round, beating Macrons party group with 6,692,365 votes and the Left wing with 7,040,232 votes, who got 2, 000, 000 votes less than in the first round - but the NR got fewer seats in Parliament due to the electoral system, and the cohabitation between Macron and the left!

[@user-qs4xw7ye5s]

Far right? Why is normalcy labelled 'far' right?

[@davidpar2]

Corporate media have moved the Overton Window completely to the left

[@lmtada]

Like turning the Titanic around. Takes forever.

[@user-dh9me5ug4x]

You can not turn the titanic around. It's at the bommttom of the ocean. Your metaphor🎉 is nonsense.

[@hankhaney3785]

Marine needs to contest the election....."Check Each Ballot" for "eligibility" !!

[@ivansultanoff6719]

I agree -it is always exact opposite

[@MbisonBalrog]

Is this cuz foreigners can vote?

[@pradipthomas8779]

Wonderful outcome. France avoided rule by a bunch of lunatics.

[@leonhue722]

Next, England sadly will fall

[@nevillespence6101]

Not while Nigel leads us, our populist movement will grow to an unstoppable force

[@user-vk4el9oy6m]

I think England has already fallen its simply going through the motions now before Sharia comes in.

[@IrishPandemonium]

When you import the 3rd world, you will become the 3rd world. Long gone are the days of France and Paris in particular being a beautiful country and city, full of chic everyday Parisiens who look like the oh so beautiful Catherine Deneuve and the handsome Alain Delon. The city of light has now become the city of shite, which is such a crying shame. The 3rd world has brought it down from the light and into the darkness and made it just like home for them. A total and very sad demise for sure R.I.P Paris and R.I.P France. Thank you for the great reporting. Erin Go Bragh. 🇮🇪 💚🤍🧡 🇮🇪🍀

[@1Yh8HH]

The cork is going to blow

[@jaybo8136]

This man is sooooooo right!

[@richardwilkins9231]

Read Matthew 25. Goats on the left, sheep on the right.

[@marcpadilla1094]

Swing a Golf Club? That might be all for him.

[@TheWhitehiker]

Biden has always been dull, just even more so now.

[@mandibarcena6667]

The Olympic committee has to consider cancelling. I am afraid Munich might happen again.

[@user-by3ks9bp5d]

Imagine being so completely mentally broken, so completely cosmically lost, so hopelessly addicted to copium that you think there is a most remote possibility that this ship can be turned around.

[@bigyin2586]

Whàt wàs interesting about the establishment ganging up on Rallye in the French election was how, for all their differences in economic policy, culturally the establishment is dramatically skewed to the left, and this is what really matters to them.

[@coconuciferanuts339]

France was/is the land of the Celts. 2,000 years ago when J.Caesar decimated their tribes. German tribes,Saxons etc. Original tribes of Europe.The Belgae,etc.

[@TerenceBischoff]

Yes..2,000 years of European history handed over in 10 years of mass Islamic Immigration......the mind boggles at the level of dangerous naive fools at the helm....

[@tristinkirby]

I hope France is able to get their act together. They need Le Pen.

[@khmer_sputnik]

It was different years ago they edited the ideology of RN from (Right-Wing) to (Far-Right) in Wikipedia.

[@catherinechiara3914]

Praying for Le Pen and France. Saint Joan of Ark pray for us. Truth and common sense will prevail. This interview was very logical and poignant. Thank you 👍

[@georgesarris5556]

100%

[@FranckLarsen]

I think countries like France and the United States ought to take a good look at their very old complicated democratic systems. Then ask themselves if they should not simplify it all. I live in Denmark where we have ONE government house, ONE election, and the number and sizes of parties are simply based on votes. That works a lot better. The winner is the winner, and that's it!

[@dovbarleib3256]

Denmark is basically a homogenous Scandinavian society. France is gone to Islam.

[@erik_dk842]

And we use hand counted paper ballots with only ONE item on each

[@danamorag953]

R.i.p france..u are now a Muslim country

[@susanastephens7156]

We now have an Islamophobia sherif which in my opinion it can only mean no one will be allowed to criticise or question anything they do or say …

[@AlanRoehrich9651]

Hope that's true, for the sake of France, and real French people.

[@alexrodgers9247]

Ralph sounds like Arnold Schwarzenegger. Looked him up…yep, Austrian!

[@OlgaHolger]

KEEP FIGHTING KEEP FIGHTING KEEP FIGHTING

[@lighteningrod36]

The only party is the will of the people

[@SaltyShaman]

Yes, we really need RID of the Party System. Then all of this would be a moot point. MP's should represent their constituents and that's it. They should be able to be recalled too if they step out of bounds. If we had that type of control in Canada, Trudeau and his clown car would never have got past 2021. Or heck, even the SNC Lavalin thing that he fired his Native Female Justice Minister over. She was asking 'uncomfortable' questions (they were shocked she was actually doing her job and not just being a sweet DEI hire).

[@TheNames-4D]

NCSWIC. The calm before the storm. ThankQ

[@clint983]

WWG1WGA

[@TheNames-4D]

@@clint983 indeed friend.

[@johnpurcell7525]

So what would Le Pen have done Left EU no Left Euro no Stopped Immigration no So what}

[@MN-vz8qm]

Exactly, this cunning move by the opposition swaping seats to prevent the RN victory was not only only a delaying action in front of a continuously rising RN popularity, but also a blessing in disguise for the RN. Right now, the country is ungovernable; whoever would win would end up with an impossible task. By remaining in the opposition, the RN is offering itself a highway to victory in teh presidential elections of 2027.

[@Anti_Immigration]

It makes me cry. European countries are selling their culture, history, and everything our ancestors stood for. I think it is too late to stop migration. Europe chose death.

[@fritzmuller8246]

The most watched golf game in history

[@wategoslife8371]

Whoever stops Russia. 😊

[@coconuciferanuts339]

What do you mean? Europe cowers from possible war with Russia?!

[@wategoslife8371]

@@coconuciferanuts339 lol. Golf biggies sure lol

[@rickleismeister7737]

how long before they bask for help again

[@finalenforcer]

When I was in Paris, I actually started thinking I was in Africa now