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still_one

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Mon Jan 23, 2017, 01:07 PM Jan 2017

Marine Le Pen hails patriotism as the policy of the future

French National Front (FN) leader Marine Le Pen has told a meeting of right-wing politicians in Germany that patriotism is the policy of the future.

The presidential candidate predicted that voters in France, Germany and the Netherlands would follow their US and UK counterparts to reject the arguments of the political establishment.

She said that 2017 would be the "year of the awakening" for European people.

Her comments were echoed by the Dutch politician, Geert Wilders.

"Yesterday, a new America. Today... a new Europe!'' Mr Wilders, the leader of the anti-immigration Freedom Party (PVV), said while opening the meeting under heavy security in the central German city of Koblenz

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-38705176

The U.S. could have been the force to stop the reemergence of the Nazis, but unfortunately 47% decided not to vote

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Marine Le Pen hails patriotism as the policy of the future (Original Post) still_one Jan 2017 OP
She means loyalty to Putin dalton99a Jan 2017 #1
She actually means WHITE European people. guillaumeb Jan 2017 #2
I tell ya, Hitler was 60 years ahead of his time. Initech Jan 2017 #3
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