DAVID CARR weighs in on the Le Pen victory, and endorses the Mickey Kaus welfare-state/terrorism connection, adding:

But it isn’t just the Napoleonic welfare-state which is to blame. The post-war political class was shot through with post-colonial guilt and haunted by the horrors of Nazi Germany to the extent where they saw ‘European culture’ as something which had to be curbed, repressed and, preferably, phased out. Europeans were required to open-ended ‘tolerance’ while immigrant communities were required to do quite the opposite. It was an appallingly misconceived and damaging bit of social engineering that may yet have terrible repercussions.

I suspect that Le Pen is getting some protest votes from people who don’t like this.