SS: Francis Fukuyama is a political scientist, international relation expert, and author on multiple books where he has argued that the spread of Western ideals of democracy, liberalism, capitalism have been more harmful to the world than IR academia has previously claimed and it should proceed more cautiosly instead, something that has put him in the Neoconservative umbrella, although he wants to distance himself from that label as he has been critical of US invasion of Iraq too, and the term “neocon” today is largely associated with the supporters of it.
Overall, he is very optimist of the so-called Liberal World Order and its continued resilience in the future, but he is still worried about two nations: France and the US, but moreso the US. He believes Le Pen is more of an opportunist who has done a lot of work to move closer to the center to appeal to more voters, and distance herself from her genuinely fascist father, to the point her party is not even the most right wing in France anymore, so he believes if she wins, her policy will align with whoever wins the White House.
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