{"id":29807,"date":"2026-10-21T05:00:03","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T05:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo.tcjhomeaccents.com\/wp\/2026\/10\/21\/from-strife-torn-france-to-the-uk-rightwing-populists-win-when-they-stir-chaos-while-promising-order-rafael-behr\/"},"modified":"2026-10-21T05:00:03","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T05:00:03","slug":"from-strife-torn-france-to-the-uk-rightwing-populists-win-when-they-stir-chaos-while-promising-order-rafael-behr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demo.tcjhomeaccents.com\/wp\/2026\/10\/21\/from-strife-torn-france-to-the-uk-rightwing-populists-win-when-they-stir-chaos-while-promising-order-rafael-behr\/","title":{"rendered":"From strife-torn France to the UK, rightwing populists win when they stir chaos while promising order | Rafael Behr"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Marine Le Pen and Donald Trump are arsonists who play at being firefighters. Nigel Farage is finding that act harder to pull off in Andy Burnham\u2019s BritainAn election where one side represents chaos will nearly always be won by the party that promises order instead. Public fatigue after years of turbulent Tory rule accounted for Labour\u2019s 2024 landslide victory more than any policy in Keir Starmer\u2019s manifesto. Across the Channel, Marine Le Pen, leader of the far-right National Rally (RN), is currently on course to win next year\u2019s presidential poll with a pledge of \u201crestored authority and security\u201d for a country that has spent years cycling between enervating stasis and explosive crisis.Le Pen has been boosted in recent days by scenes of city centres ablaze and shops being looted as student demonstrations mutated into riots.<\/p>\n<p>Street confrontation is a more standard feature of the political repertoire in France than in most settled democracies, but the destruction was disturbing by any measure.Rafael Behr is a Guardian columnist Continue reading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marine Le Pen and Donald Trump are arsonists who play at being firefighters. Nigel Farage is finding that act harder to pull off in Andy Burnham\u2019s BritainAn election where one side represents chaos will nearly\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29808,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.tcjhomeaccents.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.tcjhomeaccents.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.tcjhomeaccents.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.tcjhomeaccents.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.tcjhomeaccents.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/demo.tcjhomeaccents.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.tcjhomeaccents.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.tcjhomeaccents.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.tcjhomeaccents.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.tcjhomeaccents.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}