Opinion: France Is Headed Towards Its Most Feral Right-Wing Regime Since the Nazis

PARIS—The French political system, casually referred to as the “Republic of Friends,” is in the throes of one of its humiliating nervous breakdowns.

Now, a few weeks before an estimated 15 million baffled visitors, 10,500 bemused athletes and more than a billion bewildered TV viewers tune into Paris for the Summer Olympics, there’s an odds-on chance the government will be run by the sort of feral right-wing regime not seen in France since the Vichy administration...