Jordan Bardella, 28, is the new face of the far right in France.
Mr. Bardella, the son of Italian immigrants and a college dropout who joined the National Front party (now National Rally) at 16, is the protégé of Marine Le Pen, the perennial hard-right French presidential candidate.
Moderate in tone if not content, he is also the personification of the normalization — or banalization — of a party once seen as a quasi-fascist threat to the Republic.
Across Europe, the far right is becoming the right, absent any compelling message from traditional conservative parties.
Not only have the parties of an anti-immigrant right surged, they have seen the barriers that once kept them out crumble as they are absorbed into the arc of Western democracies.
Persons:
Jordan Bardella, Victor Hugo, “ Jordan, Jordan, —, Bardella
Organizations:
National Front
Locations:
France, Paris, Montbéliard, Republic, Europe