Le Pen Pays Lip Service to Liberty, and CPAC Fell for It

Le Pen's speech at CPAC lasted less than 10 minutes, but whoever has followed French politics to any reasonable degree will find many of her statements to be astonishingly rich in front of an American conservative crowd. She spoke of economic freedom as a shared value and talked greatly of a "French youth" (presumably meaning herself) that also wants "individual liberty and private property," at which point I admittedly choked on my baguette and red wine.