Eric Zemmour running for the presidency

Once again it’s election season in France, seeing President Macron face off against prospective challengers for his position. As Simon Sinek once said, “leadership is not about the next election, it's about the next generation. " And in our lifetime, no candidate has so clearly defined this than Eric Zemmour. So who is this Eric Zemmour I write of? I would go so far to say he is the last best hope of man in France. Zemmour, unlike any of the other conservative hopefuls, has spoken about the real issues facing France and unlike anyone else, has a plan on how to address these issues. What happens when France is no longer French? That is to Zemmour as ‘the wall’ was to Trump. And like the wall, it has gotten him in trouble with those who want to see France weaker, ashamed of itself, and of its history. So who is Zemmour? Zemmour is an Algerian Jew whose parents fled the Algerian War to Paris. In his professional life he has become an author and television personality before running for the Presidency. During his time in the media, he became an outspoken critic of immigration and the islamisation of France resulting in him being convicted twice for the offence of “provoking racial hatred” for recognising the changing face of France. Zemmour is running on a platform of an immigration moratorium and the recognition of a “Great Replacement” of the French which will turn France minority-white for the first time in history with the surge in muslims and Africans entering France both legally and illegally. According to Pew’s high and low estimates for islamic immigration to the continent, France and Europe will look quite different to the Europe we recognise today. Today, France has just under a quarter of Europe’s muslim population of 5. 7 million making it 8. 8% muslim, expecting to rise to between 8. 6 million forming 12. 7% of the population, or 13. 2 million forming a staggering 18% by 2050 due in great part due to “France’s white, or native, birthrate at 1. 4 children per woman, compared with a Muslim rate of 3. 4 to 4 children”. To see this play out, we need only look to the past to see the future. In October 2005, the predominantly Arab-immigrant [areas] of Paris, Lyon, Lille, and other French cities erupted in riots by socially alienated teenagers, mostly 16 years old or younger. Thousands of cars and buses were torched. Nursery schools were firebombed. A woman was doused with gasoline and burned. He knew then what we know now. But for too many, we are scared to say the words: “[France’s] immigration policy has, quite bluntly, failed”. What is the goal of immigration? It is justified by the notion of assimilation - to make the foreign become one of us. But what happens when that fails? What happens when the French bring in those who do not wish to be French? You get “751 muslim ghettos … [containing] high levels of criminality and dependence on welfare and, most importantly, the fact that they increasingly resemble parallel Muslim societies outside the writ of French law”. You get a majority muslim prison population as of only 2008 which goes as high as “60 to 70 percent of all inmates”. And you get a surge of socialism with “93 per cent Of French Muslims [Voting] For Hollande” just to name a few issues. Change can come too fast, or even result in becoming so different that we become something totally else - “including something we may never have wanted to be”. We need to care about a failing immigration policy because “everything you love, even the greatest and most cultured civilisation in history, can be swept away by people unworthy of them”. Zemmour is a Trump-like figure in France. He says things which resonates with many of the forgotten people left behind by the rapidly changing France “with nearly 2 in 3 French adults voicing opposition to an increase in immigration levels and 55% rating tensions between religious and ethnic groups a ‘major threat. ’” Immigration to France is a huge wedge issue. Only 7% strongly agreed that more immigration would be good for their countries with a staggering 37% strongly disagreeing. It is this issue that he pointed out most clearly in his declaration that he was running for the Presidency. It was this issue, unlike any other, that “has gripped you, oppressed you, haunted you: a strange feeling of dispossession”. It is not much to ask that you can walk down the streets of your own city and recognise them as French. It is not much to ask that you do not hear foreign languages spoken in your own homeland. And yet the failure of the elites who run France haunts the French people with the “impression that you are no longer in the country you know”. It is not much to ask that their own leaders care first and foremost about the French, and yet, there stands only one man willing to stand up to powers that be and reclaim the leadership of France, and put the interests of the French first. In many discussions with fellow Liberals I have heard doubts about his sincerity to these positions. But we need only to go back to 2016 when he was only candidate Trump or 2018 when he was President Trump to hear the media doubt Trump’s own belief and support of his signature policy of building the wall. Sounds familiar doesn’t it? Trust the plan. Patriots are in control. So why not Zemmour? Why not keep France French? Why not join the only movement which truly stands for the future of France? Vive la République, vive la France!