Strong disagree with France.
Even on mainland Europe, it's actually not even the best candidate.
What do you think would be the best Continental European candidate then?
Poland.
To a lesser extent maybe Germany.
For Poland
Last election basically was two party system (two blocs). Left bloc was kinda like Democrats. Right bloc has a lot in common with Republican Party.
Media is highly influenced by who is in charge, and generally all media has a tendency to have a bias, one way or the other. And there was a FOX News equivalent there too
It's very religious & conservative (relative to Europe), so is USA.
Sizeable agrarian communities, sometimes called the grain factory of Europe (alongside Ukraine).
Poland is a bit like what if Texas was a country (but without the oil).
France doesn't make sense because of the strong labor unions and workers tradition etc. And that the left is different, but also that the far right has less in common with the Republicans there, being economically left-wing. Like it's in many ways different.
Maybe 100 to 200 years ago, it was a better answer but i'm not taking history too much into account.
Polish right wing also unlike for instance Hungarian right is more Republican-like in which sides it supports. And being more institutionally right wing. But it also has a decent left wing that still showed it's competing, but no real decently sized far-left like in many other European countries.
And it has its progressive cities like Gdansk etc.
