France’s Mainstreaming Extremism

French Journalist Karen Lajon joins Ron Steslow to discuss France’s presidential election last weekend To unlock more episodes, visit: https://politicology.com/plus (01:43) Karen’s work covering France and the world  (03:50 The climate heading into the elections  (05:08) The sentiment around Marine Le Pen and Emmanuel Macron  (09:33) Le Pen’s push to de-demonize the National Rally (19:23) Le Pen’s ties to Putin  (25:34) What a LePen victory would have meant for France Follow Karen and Ron on Twitter: https://twitter.com/karenlajon https://twitter.com/RonSteslow Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices