Excellent response by @tabouchadi.bsky.social against naive analyses (including one in the Economist itself) that denounced the Le Pen verdict for potentially benefiting the far right. 1. That is not how the rule of law works. 2. The fear for negative consequences is dangerously fatalistic.
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Tarik Abou-Chadi
For the @economist.com, I wrote about the Le Pen verdict. In liberal democracies, the law needs to be applied even if that strengthens the far right. But here, we should not just assume that this will help the RN. On the contrary. It's a good moment for democracy.
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