Donald Trump Nationalism

In the past several years, in the face of economic hardships and threats both at home and abroad, waves of nationalist sentiment have swept across the world. In Turkey, President Erdogan has used Islamic nationalism to gain increasing power. In the United States, President Donald Trump placed nationalism at the core of the campaign which led to his improbable election. In the United Kingdom, nationalist sentiment led to the political upset of Brexit. These major political shifts have caused alarm across the Western world, stoking fears that the cooperative post-World War II world order, centered around explicitly multinational organizations like the United Nations, the European Union, and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, is in danger of being undermined by isolationism and xenophobia. With this uncertainty, the world has turned its eyes to France, which is in the midst of electing its next President. One candidate, Marine le Pen, leader of the National Front, has emerged as the leader of the Trump-Brexit style nationalist movement in France. Though her chances
Fueled largely by growing threats at home and abroad, the frustrations of many French voters not only with French leaders, but with global institutions like the European Union and NATO, have completely reshaped the French political scene. Though victory for the nationalist candidate, Marine le Pen, in the final round of the election on May 7 is still seen as unlikely, she has brought a party and a set of policies from the outer fringes of French politics to the center of the political discussion. Compounded by threats and crises at home and around the world, nationalism has completely altered the French presidential election, and broader French