A Passing Mention

[alanjjohnstone]

 

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To those running for high office in France, de Gaulle has become what Ronald Reagan is to American candidates: an anachronistic specter evoked in a lazy attempt to justify questionable policies to the unconvinced. "You don't like my position? You're an idiot! It's Gaullist!"

I've only heard Gaullism used to defend socialist policies, however — which is funny, because de Gaulle was hardly a socialist. In fact, the Socialist Standard (the monthly magazine of the Socialist Party of Great Britain) wrote of de Gaulle in its July 1958 issue: "Socialists are opposed to what de Gaulle stands for on principle, because he stands for French capitalism, and Socialists do not support any capitalist faction anywhere or at any time."

http://www.newsmax.com/RachelMarsden/socialist-french-hollande-presidential/2017/04/18/id/785016/

How does a Paris-based former Fox News co-host get to hear of us?

[imposs1904]

It's the opening line from this article:Link: Socialists and General de Gaulle

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