Dayo F. Gore is associate professor in Ethnic Studies and Critical Gender Studies at the University of California, San Diego. She is the author of Radicalism at the Crossroads: African American Women Activists in the Cold War.
The first round of the local elections took place against a backdrop of widespread creeping fascism in France and comes after a brutal offensive by the far right, during which the traditional ‘Republican’ right has decisively broken from much of its historical framework and values.