THE rIGHT IS FRENCH:

Zemmour doesn't share the Donald's obsessions with real estate or China. What he does have is a sense of declinism: "Things were better before" is a familiar refrain. Then there's his scapegoating and simplism: If only there were no immigrants and industrial jobs back onshore, the economy would prosper. His choice of language -- "rapists, assassins" -- to describe immigrants evokes Trump, too. [...]

And although Zemmour isn't a promoter of QAnon or anti-vaccine conspiracy theories, he walks a similarly paranoid path. He is a fan of the racist "Great Replacement" theory, made notorious by white supremacists in Charlottesville in 2017. The fact that he is of Algerian-Jewish origin makes his open courting of anti-Semites all the more cold and calculating. He's gone to great lengths to whitewash the Vichy regime and cast doubt on the Dreyfus Affair.

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