An American Marine Le Pen?

Feminine Poise in European Nationalism Against All Challenges

Director’s Note: Jean-Marie Le Pen died today at age 96. Le Pen was the founder of the National Front, now known as National Rally. A true populist and nationalist, Le Pen carried the torch of nationalism when its future was bleak in France.

Today, his daughter Marine Le Pen carries the torch as parliamentary leader of National Rally today and has French presidential ambitions.

Like incoming US President Trump, Marine Le Pen faces politically motivated litigation which seeks to prevent her from running for five years.

Against all challenges, may her father's words inspire:

"Lots of enemies, few friends and honor aplenty." "No regrets."

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We are going into Trump’s second and final administration. As we approach this milestone, I have found myself obsessing over who will replace Trump. J.D. Vance is the most likely choice, and I would certainly support his candidacy and administration, but someone will also have to come after Mr. Vance.

Given how the Democrats have categorically refused to admit they made any missteps in this past election, it is likely we will have a decade or more of Republican presidents. This development gives American nationalists ample time to settle into the various political and state institutions the right will have a tight grip on going forward.

This rising right-wing tide is not only happening in the United States, though. Indeed, this right-wing surge began first in Europe and looks poised to propel one of my favorite politicians to power after more than 15 years of trying. Marine Le Pen, who ran for the presidency of France in 2011, 2016, and 2022 is poised to take power in France.

Her party, the National Rally—formerly the National Front—is the kingmaker in a currently unstable coalition government and more crucially Le Pen is winning in the polls. For the first time Marine Le Pen leads the second-round presidential opinion polling against every potential challenger.

Le Pen, like Giorgia Meloni and the UK’s Suella Braverman, is popular not despite being female, but because she is a woman. Of course, I can already hear the objections: there are plenty of female politicians on the left, and indeed there are. However, Le Pen is not just a female politician but a feminine politician. Le Pen, Meloni, and Braverman have made being lady like, feminine, and the vocal defense of women a major constituent part of their political message and it resonates well with Western publics.

There is something deeply reassuring for modern largely liberally raised Western publics to see a female figure talk about things such as demographic change, mass immigration, Islamization, and the harms of modern feminism as indeed Marine Le Pen has.

Marine Le Pen’s femininity has proven a massive resource to her party. She has been able to bring nationalist, patriotic, and right-wing ideas before the French public with a softer touch and a motherly reassurance. Her patriotism is viewed not as threateningly masculine but as a reassuring and stable force in an ever changing and increasingly dangerous world. In sort, Le Pen and others like her on the rise in Europe are serving as mothers to Western nations in our time of greatest strife and increasing decline.

This style of feminine politician—these mothers of nations—is not something we have in the United States. Our female politicians like Kristi Noem, Lauren Boebert, Jill Biden, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and many others across both parties have fully adopted the progressive feminist position of behaving either like men or behaving poorly in general. Kristi Noem boasts about shooting the family dog as a form of ‘masculine’ strength, while AOC and Jill Biden castigate others in attempts to appear serious and strong. These lecturing, institution obsessed, nagging, and generally unpleasant women drive the American public mad with their combination of moralizing and false bravado.

Our other right-wing female public figures tend to be very pretty but entirely intellectually inept commentators on channels such as Fox News. These women parrot painfully dull neoliberal talking points and, in many cases, make me embarrassed to be a woman on the right. I do not want my gender to be represented by airwave commentators but by strongly feminine stateswomen who exude confidence, competence, and moral fortitude in defending the ideas of nationhood, family, and traditional values.

What the American Right needs is our own Marine Le Pen. An intelligent, competent, feminine, and decidedly patriotic female figure to serve as mother of the nation. A woman who can bring the realities of the Great Replacement, mass immigration, and familial decay to the attention of the American public in a way that gives them the confidence to act. The American public is already well and truly aware of the realities of the Great Replacement, but they must be empowered with moral fervor to act to begin reversing this process.

A female politician of the caliber of Marine Le Pen could swat aside the moaning about family separations, could hammer home the points about sex abuse, rape, and child molestation taking place along our border and inside this country at the hands of immigrants, and she could more aptly than any man make the case for a return to the cherished values of the nuclear family that made Western societies the most free and prosperous in mankind’s long history.

This unique influence of female politicians such as Le Pen or Meloni is not because men are unable to make the case, but because a woman is far less likely to be accused of sexism, misogyny, or other ‘isms’ for her socially conservative views. The worst that happens is headache-inducing leftist chants of “internalized misogyny” that not even those on their own side care to listen to for fear of being associated with cranks and lunatics the likes of which the American public decidedly rejected in the 2024 election.

It seems likely that a female politician could get away with using strongly moral arguments about protecting women and girls if she were to, say, begin revoking many of the 13 million Green Cards that currently allow an equal number of immigrants to reside permanently in the United States. Likewise, I believe a female president shutting down immigration from majority Muslim countries would face far less public pushback were she to make her case based upon the Muslim world’s historically poor treatment of women and more importantly the many cases of rape, assault, and murder European women have suffered at the hands of Muslim immigrants.

Were a female president to set out on a mission to deport the more than 6 million children of illegal immigrants who reside in the United States could meet the left on the moral battleground with the uniquely powerful force of her own motherhood and maternal instincts. She could make the case that no mother would ever want to be separated from her children and therefore deporting families as whole units is much more humane and just than insisting that the children of illegal aliens be allowed to remain in the United States.

Still, I am looking forward to border czar Homan, SecDef Hegseth, and DNI Tulsi Gabbard, but once the Trump—and perhaps Vance—administrations have come and gone I would like to see an American Marine Le Pen rise to the fore and contribute the project of national reconstruction in a way that I believe only a woman can.

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