European Project: Wisdom Isn and Donald Trump

european project: In the French run-off voting system, the winner must eventually earn an outright majority and many hope that Le Pen's outrageous xenophobia and her antipathy to the European project preclude her from doing so, according to Toronto Star. Yet, as the last year has demonstrated, amid the populist revolt taking place across Europe and beyond, the common wisdom isn't necessarily worth much. MARTIN BUREAU / AFP/GETTY IMAGES Sat., April 22, 2017 The common wisdom in France is that Marine Le Pen, the leader of the country's far-right National Front, is too divisive a character to triumph in the presidential election that begins on Sunday. In case you forgot, Donald Trump is the president of the United States and Britain is leaving Europe. The same economic insecurity and rising inequality, the same disillusionment with the promises of globalization and the technocrats who touted them, the same democratic disengagement and disaffection that propelled Trump and the Brexiteers to victory all of these exist in France, too. The impossible is possible, the improbable likely. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.