Comparing our politicians with American ones to say “but we’re not progressing into fascism” is kinda weird. It’s not an argument about the actual progression to say “but they’re worse elsewhere!”. Also it’s very much not small beer if you’re part of certain communities. C’mon, we’re the current champions of institutional islamophobia. They’re down to forbidding kids from wearing long skirts. We’re on the UN’s watchlist for police brutality and freedom of expression (and that’s under Macron, not a still somewhat hypothetical future in which Le Pen gets elected), as well as racism in policing (not that we would acknowledge it, given the convenient illegality of race-based statistics). Sure, the US has their problems (never lived there so I only get my impressions from the web, but it does seem very shitty), but it’s nonsense to point out theirs to deny ours. Especially given that the issues are very different (racism in France presents in a different way than in the US - doesn’t mean we’re not racist in France).

I mean, we have a minister who literally told the face of the extreme right was too soft, while she was saying she could have written his book. But that’s just the minister in charge of our police and internal security, nothing important, no link at all to potential fascism.