Why is Marine Le Pen considered "far-right" when her platform is socialist?

[cachibatches]

Originally Posted by TristramShandy

Because she loves the idea of Hitler goose stepping down the Champs-Elysees.

Insert "Adolph Hitler" and you can ask the same question.

The answer is that "right wing" no longer means anything. It is just someone who is, for good or for bad, disreputable to international socialsim, even if they follow similar economic polices.

[cdnirene]

The founder of the Front National was Marine Le Pen's father who led the party from 1972 until 2011 when his daughter took over.

The 88-year-old former paratrooper has multiple convictions for inciting racial hatred and denying crimes against humanity and once described the Holocaust as a mere “detail” in history – a view which saw him booted out of the party he founded.

As well as calling for tighter controls on immigration, he has advocated more controversial policies, including the enforced isolation of people with AIDS, and once claimed the French national football team had too many black players to represent French society.

Ms Le Pen has tried to distance herself from her father and her party’s racist and anti-Semitic roots in order to win wider public approval.

Her father however is still honorary President of the party,

Jean-Marie Le Pen charged over alleged antisemitic remarks | The Independent

[james159]

Easier to compare their opponent to hitler for political gain. How many times have we heard that Trump is literally hitler?

[Brave New World]

Le Pen has a populist platform, with a hard line policies in relation to immigration, globalisation, defence, Foreign Policy withdrawl from the European Union and other such areas, coupled with a much more left wing domestic agenda when it comes to social policies such as health care, welfare, housing, education, employment etc.

This reflects the importance of social policies in France and there popularity, furthermore this approach allows Le Pen to reach out to voters across the political spectrum.