Geoff Russ: French nationalist Marine Le Pen would be the anti-extremist choice

Geoff Russ: French nationalist Marine Le Pen would be the anti-extremist choice

PARIS — For almost 10 years, the French political establishment has portrayed defeating Marine Le Pen as a duty. Every cycle, they roll out the same rhetoric and warnings about the nationalist right and Le Pen’s National Rally (Rassemblement National), and French voters have held their noses and voted for the guardians of a fading European political system.