Marine Le Pen has astutely worked to remodel her far-right National Front party and deodorize some of its most rancid elements, including the anti-Semitism of her father, former leader Jean-Marie Le Pen. In a sense, she has replaced Jews with Muslims as the strangers in the midst of Holy France who supposedly do not share the values of Marianne, the embodiment of the French Republic, and who seek to overturn her way of life, abandoning the victories of modernity, like sexual equality, in the name of a rigid religion.
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