Eric Zemmour Will Run for French Presidency! By Richard Miller (London)
Here is someone far to the Right of Le Pen, who openly speaks about the Great Replacement of Whites. How this pans out is not clear, but he will be better than anyone else, and has certainly stirred the pot. Here is a sample of his thought.
“My dear Countrymen— For years, the same feeling has swept you along, oppressed you, shamed you: a strange and penetrating feeling of dispossession. You walk down the streets in your towns, and you don’t recognize them.
You look at your screens and they speak to you in a language that is strange, and in the end foreign. You turn your eyes and ears to advertisements, TV series, football matches, films, live performances, songs, and the schoolbooks of your children.
You take the subways and trains. You go to train stations and airports. You wait for your sons and your daughters outside their school. You take your mother to the emergency room.
You stand in line at the post office or the employment agency. You wait at a police station or a courthouse. And you have the impression that you are no longer in a country that you know.
You remember the country of your childhood. You remember the country that your parents told you about. You remember the country found in films and books. The country of Joan of Arc and Louis XIV. The country of Bonaparte and General de Gaulle.
The country of knights and ladies. The country of Victor Hugo and Chateaubriand. The country of Pascal and Descartes. The country of the fables of La Fontaine, the characters of Molière, and the verses of Racine.
The country of Notre Dame de Paris and of village church towers. The country of Gavroche and Cosette. The country of barricades and Versailles. The country of Pasteur and Lavoisier. The country of Voltaire and Rousseau, of Clemenceau and the soldiers of ’14, of de Gaulle and Jean Moulin. The country of Gabin and Delon; of Brigitte Bardot and Belmondo and Johnny and d’Aznavour and Brassens and Barbara; the films of Sautet and Verneuil.
This country— at the same time light-hearted and illustrious. This country— at the same time literary and scientific. This country— truly intelligent and one-of-a-kind. The country of the Concorde and nuclear power. The country that invented cinema and the automobile.
This country— that you search for everywhere with dismay. No, your children are homesick, without even having known this country that you cherish. And it is disappearing.
You haven’t left, and yet you have the feeling of no longer being at home. You have not left your country. Your country left you. You smell foreigners in your own country. You are internal exiles.
For a long time, you believed you were the only one to see, to hear, to think, to doubt. You were afraid to say it. You were ashamed of your feelings. For a long time, you dared not say what you are seeing, and above all you dared not see what you were seeing.
And then you said it to your wife. To your husband. To your children. To your father. To your mother. To your friends. To your coworkers. To your neighbors. And then to strangers. And you understood that your feeling of dispossession was shared by everyone.
France is no longer France, and everyone sees it.
Of course, they despised you: the powerful, the élites, the conformists, the journalists, the politicians, the professors, the sociologists, the union bosses, the religious authorities.
They told you it’s all a ploy, it’s all fake, it’s all wrong. But you understood in time that it was them who were a ploy, them who had it all wrong, them who did you wrong.
The disappearance of our civilization is not the only question that harasses us, although it towers over everything. Immigration is not the cause of all our problems, although it aggravates everything.
The third-worlding of our country and our people impoverishes as much as it disintegrates, ruins as much as it torments.
It’s why you often have a hard time making ends meet. It’s why we must re-industrialize France. It’s why we must equalize the balance of trade. It’s why we must reduce our growing debt, bring back to France our companies that left, give jobs to our unemployed.
It’s why we must protect our technological marvels and stop selling them to foreigners. It’s why we must allow our small businesses to live, and to grow, and to pass from generation to generation.
It’s why we must preserve our architectural, cultural, and natural heritage. It’s why we must restore our republican education, its excellence and its belief in merit, and stop surrendering our children to the experiments of egalitarians and pedagogists and the Doctor Strangeloves of gender theory and islamo-leftism.
It’s why we must take back our sovereignty, abandoned to European technocrats and judges, who rob the French people of the ability to control their destiny in the name of a fantasy – a Europe that will never be a nation.
Yes, we must give power to the people, take it back from the minority that unceasingly tyrannizes the majority and from judges who substitute their judicial rulings for government of the people, for the people, by the people.
For decades, our elected officials of the right and the left have led us down this dire path of decline and decadence. Right and left have lied and concealed the gravity of our diminishment. They have hidden from you the reality of our replacement.
You have known me for many years. You know what I say, what I diagnose, what I proclaim. I have long been content with the role of journalist, writer, Cassandra, whistleblower. Back then, I believed that a politician would take up the flame that I had lit.
I said to myself, to each his own job, to each his own role, to each his own fight. I have lost this illusion. Like you, I have lost confidence. Like you, I have decided to take our destiny in hand.
I saw that no politician had the courage to save our country from the tragic fate that awaits it. I saw that all these supposed professionals were, above all, impotent.
That President Macron, who had presented himself as an outsider, was in fact the synthesis of his two predecessors, or worse. That all the parties were contenting themselves with reforms, while time passes them by.
There is no more time to reform France – but there is time to save her. That is why I have decided to run for President.
I have decided to ask your votes to become your President of the Republic, so that our children and grandchildren do not know barbarism. So that our daughters are not veiled and our sons are not forced to submit.
So that we can bequeath to them the France we have known and that we received from our ancestors. So that we can still preserve our way of life, our traditions, our language, our conversations, our debates about history and fashion, our taste for literature and food.
So that the French remain French, proud of their past and confident in their future. So that the French once again feel at home. So that the newest arrivals assimilate their culture, adapt their history, and are remade as French in France – not foreigners in an unknown land.
We, the French, are a great nation. A great people. Our glorious past pleads for our future. Our soldiers have conquered Europe and the world.
Our writers and artists have aroused universal admiration. Our scientific discoveries and industrial production have stamped their epochs. The charm of our art de vivre excites longing and joy in all who taste it.
We have known great victories, and we have overcome cruel defeats. For a thousand years, we have been one of the powers who have written the history of the world.
We are worthy of our ancestors. We will not allow ourselves to be mastered, vassalized, conquered, colonized. We will not allow ourselves to be replaced.
In front of us, a cold and determined monster rises up, who seeks to dishonor us. They will say that you are racist. They will say that you are motivated by contemptible passions, when in fact it is the most lovely passion that animates you – passion for France.
They will say the worst about me. But I will keep going amidst the jeers, and I don’t care if they spit on me. I will never bend the head. For we have a mission to accomplish.
The French people have been intimidated, crippled, indoctrinated, blamed— but they lift up their heads, they drop the masks, they clear the air of lies, they hunt down these evil perjuries.
We are going to carry France on. We are going to pursue the beautiful and noble French adventure. We are going to pass the flame to the coming generations. Join with me. Rise up. We, the French, have always triumphed over all.
Long live the Republic, and above all, long live France!”
https://www.amren.com/features/2021/11/a-pro-white-president-for-france/
“Eric Zemmour will soon be a candidate for the April 2022 French presidential election. He isn’t an official candidate yet but there is no doubt that he will eventually declare. He is one of the most famous journalists in France, and is well known in Switzerland, Belgium, and other French-speaking countries. He has portrayed himself as a truth-teller in a news media dominated by timid, left-leaning journalists.
Mr. Zemmour wrote his first book on politics in 1986, and became a TV commentator in 1995. For 27 years, and despite several changes of TV programs (he has been fired over and over for his political views), he has been constantly in the mainstream media.
His positions are almost all controversial:
- He criticizes Islam, the Great Replacement, the colonization of France by foreigners, and has referred to non-white “scum.”
- He recognizes the existence of races (this is unusual in France).
- He speaks of French politicians of the last 40 years as “traitors.”
- He believes that Marshal Pétain (head of the Vichy regime under Nazi Germany) saved French Jews in exchange for handing over foreign Jews.
- He says there is a competition between Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jews over who has been most persecuted and therefore worthier.
- He is the only European politician who has called the current pope “anti-white.”
- He argues that racial profiling is normal, and that if blacks are stopped twice as often as whites by the police, it is because they are twice likely to be criminals.
It has been a very long time since so much truth has been spoken in France. In fewer than 150 days, France could have an explicitly pro-white president, far different from Donald Trump. In a very large field of a dozen candidates, he has polled as high as second place, but has lately dropped back to third or perhaps fourth.
Who is Zemmour?
Eric Zemmour was born 64 years ago, in Montreuil just outside Paris, now a lawless area and an Afro-Islamic enclave. You can spend 20 minutes there in the middle of the day without seeing a single white person. Mr. Zemmour has therefore seen the great non-European replacement close up, from its beginnings in 1970.
His parents were Berber Jews from Algeria, who came to France during the Algerian War. He is grateful that because of French colonization, he was saved from having to spend his life in Algeria. Most people would not consider him white, but he once said that his mother had blue eyes and very fair skin. He has light-colored eyes and had curly hair before he went bald, and he has the typical look of someone from the mountains of Algeria. He defines himself above all as a Frenchman by spirit, or a Frenchman “of the branch,” a play on the words since the native French call themselves “French from the roots.”
Religiously, Mr. Zemmour is agnostic, a Jew who does not practice. He admits that he is not very sure what his religious beliefs are. His distant ancestors probably converted to Judaism, so he is therefore not necessarily a Jew in the ethnic sense.
Zemmour against the world
In his early career as a young political journalist, Eric Zemmour saw the submission to the Left of French right-wing politicians, even among those who became his friends and mentors. He, himself, refuses to submit to cultural and ideological dictatorship. He sometimes compares himself to Donald Trump, in that they are both dissident figures hated by the media. Nevertheless, he criticizes Mr. Trump for not reining in the power of big-tech social media companies, and for failing to stop their march towards global censorship. Comparing himself to Mr. Trump underscores his desire to win the presidency as an outsider and by challenging mainstream ideas.
Mr. Zemmour realized early that his pro-French views made him an exception in French politics and journalism. This is a professional environment that is very hostile to his ideas, rejects him, and fights him relentlessly. French television has a morbid and self-defeating fascination with right-wing dissidents. The French media promote them in the vain hope that people will hate them more.
Citizenship
Mr. Zemmour’s background makes him a powerful advocate for assimilation — the idea that others can become French. French-style assimilation is his trademark, and he talks about it in almost every interview. One obsession for which he is famous is his demand that Muslims give their children French first names to prove their willingness to become like the natives. This is parallel to the Muslim demand that converts take a Muslim first name as a sign of their new identity. The general opinion, even on the Right, is that this is excessive and meaningless.
The racialist Right — practically non-existent in France — opposes this form of assimilation. However, Muslims would hate a requirement of this kind, and many would probably leave the country if it were applied. It is therefore a way to create maximum discomfort for our civilizational opponents.
Eric Zemmour fully understands Islamic conquest. A turning point for him was “the Creil headscarf affair” (Creil is a Paris suburbs) in 1989. Three Arab girls defied the rules of their high school by wearing prohibited headscarves. He understood that this was an outer sign of the huge simmering problem of Islamic conquest and that elected officials would back down.
Race
Mr. Zemmour considers himself white. In 2008, on Swiss television, he said to black leftist activist, Rockaya Diallo, “It’s obvious: I belong to the white race and you belong to the black race.” In France, such a statement from a public figure is unimaginable. Any person who made it today would be front-page news for two weeks, and would never live it down. This is because in France, race officially does not exist. Scientists take turns telling us this.
This assertion that he is white reflects his views of assimilation. In France, the Republican paradigm goes hand in hand with French-style universalism, which allows two conceptions of nationality: those who are French by blood and those who are “French by spirit,” who may be considered “French by adoption.” Mr. Zemmour regularly quotes the royalist historian Jacques Bainville, who said, “Better than a race, the French people are a nation.” By this standard he is French, according to the Republican conception. Nevertheless, Mr. Zemmour appears to know that large-scale assimilation is impossible.
Contradictions
In October 2018, Mr. Zemmour made a revealing statement in an interview with a French right-wing online newspaper. The journalist mentioned his demand that North African and black parents give their children European Christian names. She asked him whether this makes the African invasion more acceptable, by hiding it administratively. And does this not therefore make the Great Replacement even more dangerous and inevitable?
Mr. Zemmour replied:
You are right. I defend assimilation. But you are beginning with the next generation. You acknowledge that assimilation will not happen. You take an upcoming confrontation for granted. Therefore, we might as well know “who is who”. In reality . . . you may be right, and you have understood that I agree with you in reality.
It is not clear whether he is promoting assimilation or remigration — return to countries of origin — because assimilation is impossible. There seem to be two thoughts in his head, as is common in people confronted by a dilemma. He seems to be torn between the assimilation he hopes for, if time allowed, and the separation that is realistic within our current timeframe.
For all his lucidity, Eric Zemmour is not a racialist. He is an assimilationist, but he must painfully know in his heart that it probably won’t work. It is too late. In small numbers, it might have been possible, but the numbers are now too great.
However, if Mr. Zemmour is elected, there is no doubt that, unlike Donald Trump, he will consistently follow through on all the major points of his program. For a nation that is already deeply leftist, this is a shocking prospect. He would be a vital first step towards the salvation of France.”
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