French presidential candidates Marine Le Pen and Eric Zemmour are patriotic reformers who want to curtail immigration to France. Both promised that if elected they would hold a referendum to allow the majority of French people to express what limits on immigration they want. French elites didn’t like this idea, and France’s constitutional court complied by ruling that a referendum vote would not be valid without Senate approval–an unlikely prospect.
In America, elites also use judges to thwart popular rule. In 1994, Californians voted overwhelmingly for Prop. 187, a measure to deny state benefits to illegal aliens. One federal judge overruled it. In Europe and this country, elites refer to this kind of government as “democracy.”
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