We Americans who grew up on Sesame Street thank you for the Muppet analogy of the recent French elections. I’d love to see this piece published in the NYT or WaPo, or a similar type of trusted journalism! Bravo, Carolyn!
This is just brilliant! Thank you for this, and for speaking Muppet so fluently. This recently retired journalist (who is hoping to soon become a neighbor) tips her chapeau to you!
Great stuff! My only gripe: the left alliance NFP is not far left, just left. Both their political platform, academic scholars, and official institutions like the State Council and the Ministry of Interior agree that NFP are left, whereas RN is indeed far right. The far left in France is mostly made of small trotskyist parties, and they actually had candidates running against the regular left NFP. Painting the NFP as far left is a right-wing talking point that even the New York Times originally fell for, before taking down their post and correcting their mistake. So if even the NYT got it wrong, it's fair for the Muppets to have fallen for it too :) . A very fun read, bravo!
This is so right. The RN defenders saying they actually like diversity, just not “radical Islam,” are lying to themselves and everyone else. We all know what far right ideology holds dear at this point and denying it is just gaslighting.
it reminds me a little of Ireland - where we have a rotating leader between the two largest parties in an attempt to quash the incoming influence of the far left.makes everything feel a bit irrelevant and beyond our control
Magnifique résumé de la situation politique en France, merci! Et vive le Muppet Show (did you know that it was very popular in France too when it existed?) 🙂
This one is already posted on FB in the Americans Living the Dream in France group, too funny and spot on.
We Americans who grew up on Sesame Street thank you for the Muppet analogy of the recent French elections. I’d love to see this piece published in the NYT or WaPo, or a similar type of trusted journalism! Bravo, Carolyn!
This is just brilliant! Thank you for this, and for speaking Muppet so fluently. This recently retired journalist (who is hoping to soon become a neighbor) tips her chapeau to you!
As an American ex-pat living in France, this is spot-on! Thanks for making French politics a little more accessible and a lot more humorous 🌻🤗🌻
ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT.
Brilliant analogy!!!
Very clever! Now we'll see what these muppits are going to do...
Great stuff! My only gripe: the left alliance NFP is not far left, just left. Both their political platform, academic scholars, and official institutions like the State Council and the Ministry of Interior agree that NFP are left, whereas RN is indeed far right. The far left in France is mostly made of small trotskyist parties, and they actually had candidates running against the regular left NFP. Painting the NFP as far left is a right-wing talking point that even the New York Times originally fell for, before taking down their post and correcting their mistake. So if even the NYT got it wrong, it's fair for the Muppets to have fallen for it too :) . A very fun read, bravo!
Thank you! I mentioned at the end of the post that I was open to corrections. I am just trying to figure it all out for myself!
Thank you, highly appreciated, and it’s indeed quite confusing
This is so right. The RN defenders saying they actually like diversity, just not “radical Islam,” are lying to themselves and everyone else. We all know what far right ideology holds dear at this point and denying it is just gaslighting.
You left out the part where the National Rally party got more votes then any other party but is third in the number of seats.
Because the popular vote doesn’t matter if the group disagree with wins it I guess.
it reminds me a little of Ireland - where we have a rotating leader between the two largest parties in an attempt to quash the incoming influence of the far left.makes everything feel a bit irrelevant and beyond our control
Magnifique résumé de la situation politique en France, merci! Et vive le Muppet Show (did you know that it was very popular in France too when it existed?) 🙂
better job explaining it than the bbc
Hahahaha
It’s about to happen here!
Really interesting, French politics is difficult to understand even for a Spaniard where politics are not easy at all either.