Hillary Clinton has spent months trying to secure the endorsement of America’s self-proclaimed socialist, Sen. Bernie Sanders, Clinton’s rival for the Democratic presidential nomination. On Thursday, she landed a socialist endorsement — but it came from Versailles, not Vermont.
In an article published Thursday in the French newspaper Les Echos, France’s Socialist President Francois Hollande wrote, “the best thing the Democrats can do is to get Hillary Clinton elected.” He added that putting Trump in the White House “would complicate relations between Europe and the U.S.” and called the notion of a Trump presidency a dangerous one.
Much of the rhetoric Trump uses to describe immigrants and refugees is likely familiar to the French president. At home, he faces an emerging far-right party, led by Marine Le Pen, leader of France’s National Front party. She’s called for a referendum on France’s future in the European Union similar to the one that allowed Britons to vote to leave the EU.
Hollande went as far as to compare the rhetoric used by Trump to that used by Le Pen and the other far-right nationalists emerging across the continent.
