When Marine Le Pen failed to win the French presidency, the elites of Europe hailed “populism” dead in its tracks. They do not like to mention the 11 million votes, 35 percent, she received. They quietly erase the inconvenient truth that she is the opposition in France, that Geert Wilders of the PVV is the official opposition in The Netherlands, and the Italian Lega Nord, and Austria’s Party for Freedom could all be in government in the next few months.
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