Sarkozy and the New Right. The election of Sarkozy points to a trend. In the 1980s and 1990s, there were all these articles in the Western press (and scholarship) about the New Right. The New Right referred to those organizations with neo-Nazi and fascist agendas that made xenophobia a central element in their electoral campaigns. In recent years, there is a new trend. People often now talk about the decline of the New Right. I disagree. I believe that the New Right left from the window, to enter through the front door. The New Right and their supporters have migrated to mainstream conservative political parties: in Germany, France, and elsewhere in Europe. So it is not that Le Pen is no more popular: it is that Sarkozy is now a more intelligent (and better marketer of hatred and racism) than Le Pen. The New Right merely discovered that it will only win big if it hides under the mantle of the Old Right.