re: Joy Behar says Republicans have a penchant for Nazis

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Marine Le Pen

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does not belong anywhere near a "conservative" anything. Aside from her immigration stance, she's slightly to the right of Stalin.

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Marine Le Pen is not even close to being near Stalin let alone slightly to the right of him. She supports some liberal positions like advocating for civil unions for same-sex couples, accepting unconditional abortion and withdrawing the death penalty from her platform.

She may be a socialist who supports having strong ties with Russia but she also supports some conservative positions such as being opposed to globalization and multiculturalism.

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Marine Le Pen contends that the FN's immigration programme is better known among the voters; she has thus concentrated on the party's economic and social programmes.

Described as more democratic and republican than her nationalist father, Jean-Marie Le Pen, the previous leader of the FN, she has attempted to detoxify and soften the party's image, based on reformulated policy positions, and has relaxed some political positions of the party, advocating for civil unions for same-sex couples, accepting unconditional abortion and withdrawing the death penalty from her platform.

On economic policy, Le Pen favours protectionism as an alternative to free trade. She supports economic nationalism, the separation of investment and retail banking, and energy diversification, and is opposed to the privatization of public services and social security, speculation on international commodity markets, and the Common Agricultural Policy.

Le Pen is opposed to globalization, which she blames for various negative economic trends, and opposes European Union supranationalism and federalism, instead favouring a loosely confederate 'Europe of the Nations'. She has called for France to leave the Eurozone and for a referendum on France leaving the EU. She has been a vocal opponent of the Treaty of Lisbon, and opposes EU membership for Turkey and Ukraine. Le Pen has pledged to take France out of NATO and the US sphere of influence. She proposes the replacement of the World Trade Organisation and the abolition of the International Monetary Fund.

Le Pen and the NF believe that multiculturalism has failed, and argue for the "de-Islamisation" of French society. Le Pen has called for a moratorium on legal immigration. She would repeal laws allowing illegal immigrants to become legal residents, and has argued that benefits provided to immigrants be reduced to remove incentives for new immigrants. Following the beginning of the Arab Spring and the European migrant crisis, she called for France to withdraw from the Schengen Area and reinstate border controls.[

On foreign policy, Le Pen supports the establishment of a privileged partnership with Russia, and believes that Ukraine has been "subjugated" by the United States. She is strongly critical of NATO policy in the region, Eastern European anti-Russian sentiment, and threats of economic sanctions.

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