Best of the Program | Guest: Simone Rodan-Benzaquen | 10/19/26

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Hey, on today's podcast, I'm going to try to give you everything you need to know about France. Is France our future? Also, we talked to somebody over in France. She knows it quite well. She lives there. She is actually a senior envoy for Europe, for the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. She lays it all out on what's really happening. And then, DataRepublican, the left's doomsday scenario. What is actually coming here in America? It all ties together on today's podcast.

Hello, America. Welcome to Monday. I want to continue our conversation here about what's happening in France, but it is not really about France. This is about you and me and the coming election, because we are going down exactly the same route. So I want you to look at who's cheering and who's winning from this, okay? Who wins from what's happening in France and who's cheering? Iran, remember, the regime that crushed its own protest in January, summoned the ambassador to Iran from France to lecture Paris on human rights. You can't treat protestors. You just killed 40,000 in the street. And you're lecturing France on human rights? Yes. So France fires back, accusing Iran of a disinformation campaign aimed at the student movement. Do you think, France? I mean, here's the problem. Everybody is making mistakes in this. There is no one that is actually has clean hands on this. No one. Palestinian flags are in the crowd. Climate activists are marching with the unions now. The unions said, today, they're going to double their efforts in this. Okay. So who is really, who's really pushing for a calmer, stronger, richer France? Is it the unions that are demanding that they don't sign this budget tomorrow? Is that who's doing it?

Is it the activists who are burning the streets down? Is it the climate activists who say gasoline and diesel is too expensive and electricity is too expensive? You were the guys who shut down the refineries. You were the guys that shut down the power plants. You know, let me ask you this. When a shop goes up in flames, who gets stronger? Who gets stronger?

If this is about the classrooms, why are you burning down City Hall? I don't understand that. Now, look at the calendar. You look at the calendar, France elects a new president next spring. Marine Le Pen, the national rally, holds the lead in almost every poll. And her opponents have called her fascist. We just were talking about this. Running in second place is Jean-Luc Mélenchon. He's a hard left guy who has praised Hugo Chávez and called for Europe's Central Bank to just cancel the debt it holds. It can't happen that way. You don't just cancel debt. No country can do that. If you cancel debt that you owe, who lends to you next year? And by the way, who ends up paying for that? Okay, so I want you to think about this. And again, understand I'm not just telling you about France. I'm telling you about America and the coming election here. Think like a chess player. Just try to think a few moves ahead. The streets burn. Order has to be resolved, right? Has to be restored. It has to, everything has to come. So what takes place? Well, you're going to have to have more police, maybe soldiers, maybe curfews. Now, the moment the state puts the helmets on, what's the headline? Come on, what's the headline? Fascism.

Iran is already writing that script this weekend, calling, I saw very little lack of, I mean, very little response, a total lack of response from the police, but they were already saying this is fascists. This is the oldest trap there is. You light the fire, then you photograph the fireman kicking in the door, and you call him the violent one. And if he doesn't put it out, then the building burns. If he does, he's a monster. Either way, whoever lit the match wins. Now watch what the fire does to the vote. Every burning car is an ad for who? The leftist or Marine Le Pen? Right? Every line of riot police is an ad for who? Marine Le Pen or the Marxist? The extremes feed each other, and the middle starves. So the question isn't whether France restores order. It has to. The question is, whether it happens under law in daylight with limits, so the word never sticks, even though all of the enemies of France, all of them, are going to try to turn that into fascism.

And what's the street demanding? Union wants higher wages, higher pensions, lower prices, more public services, more, more, more, more. They've been here before.