“You will smile here at the consistency of those democratists, who, when they are not on their guard, treat the humbler part of the community with the greatest contempt, whilst, at the same time, they pretend to make them the depositories of all power.”
- Edmund Burke [Reflections on the Revolution in France]
On Monday, March 31st, Marine Le Pen, the long-time leader of National Rally, the largest opposition party in France, was found guilty of embezzlement along with many of her colleagues. This was not, however, the normal kind of embezzlement, with the judges acknowledging in the ruling that the purpose of the scheme was not personal enrichment. Instead, National Rally is said to have used the budget their Members of Europe…
