Macron is arrogant but not stupid

Nothing else in France looks like the 1930s, so why should fascism? There really is a fascist movement in France, although it avoids torch-lit marches and jackboots. It has even stopped the Holocaust denial (mostly).

This movement used to be called the National Front, and its founders included Frenchmen who had fought for the Nazis as volunteers in Waffen-SS military units. Jean-Marie Le Pen, the party leader for four decades, was a former paratrooper who allegedly tortured Arab prisoners...