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I think we've been speaking past each other. I feel like one can "do what needs to be done" whilst not sticking their foot in their mouth. The right has a problem here (thanks to polarisation), quite like the left. What was it that Republican Congresswoman said about "Jewish Space Lasers" or...

They'd get a strongly worded letter, and that would be the end of that. Besides, tightening up the borders is a hell of a lot more straightforward than you might think.

Not to condone them, but there are some rather swift and...well...brutal methods of dissuading migrants. "Whiff of grapeshot" and all that.

So we've been doomed for over three thousand years, have we (not counting in excess of ten thousand years of human civilisation)? Optics have been important since Agamemnon. There is no getting around it.

The poster also makes a very good point as to how a bad reputation will kneecap you for decades straight. Perception is vital in politics, even in more sensible times.

He had to be. Only the second coming of Charlemagne could salvage anything of value from the horror of the Revolution. Few know it better than we do. The death of King Charles, a flawed but good man who met his death with the dignity of an English King, did not make our kingdom any better.

France? My good man, their history has been a laundry list of tragedies and follies since 1789. They seem to be quite good at reacting to problems of government, but then they give in to radicalism and everything becomes worse. History would have been happier if King Louis XVI hadn't been...

One thing I've noticed is that while the populists don't get power, they seem highly effective at nudging the overton window to the Right. In time, the establishment right may well become genuinely right wing, if not traditionalist. But as for the populists themselves, as outsiders, they don't...

Nah, eventually you'd end up with a diminished and smaller France cursing the names of its foolish ancestors after "The breakup of Yugoslavia 2: Electric Boogaloo" but it would survive. Granted I'm not entirely sure we'll get to that point, but it's something to keep in mind.

Le Pen, as borked as her economics are, is still very much a French nationalist who doesn't want anymore integration into the EU, along with huge curbs on immigration and the proliferation of Islam in France. Thusly she is irrevocably more appealing to French nationalists and patriots than...