Le Pen's rise is a natural response to 10 + years of unapologetic political impotence suffocating Europe's public discourse. Leaders have waffled and looked the other way in the face of growing cultural segregation that has allowed no-go zones to flourish where women are hissed at for wearing T-shirts. France just stopped another terrorist plot yesterday, finding guns and explosives with the arrests. The French are tired of demands to "accommodate" a belief system that is only common in violent regressive societies where women are treated like chattel. Le Pen's popularity isn't surprising under the circumstances (Charlie Hebdo, Paris, Nice...).