Le Pen's a fairly common place contemporary hard right racist. Here's a few badly-translated-by-me pledges from her
platform
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- Defend National Identity and the values and traditions of French civilisation. Write into the constitution the defence and promotion of our historical and cultural heritage.
- Establish French citizenship as a privilege for all French people by putting 'national priority' into the constitution
- Permanently install the French flag in all public buildings and remove all european flags
- Add into the constitution that "The Republic recognises no communities"
- Strengthen the unity of the Nation by the promotion of the French story and the refusal of state apologies which divide us.
- Introduce 'Republican Assimilation', a more demanding principal than 'Integration'
France is already in mild social turmoil because it finds it very difficult to deal with, at an institutional / political level, the fact that not everyone is exactly the same French stereotype - white, rural, thinks mainstream old-person French stuff is brilliant. Le Pen is the fingers-in-the ear answer to that problem, who'll be very aggressive in going as far as she can to make reality like that, all the while pretending it actually already is to spare the squeamish.
She'll back these idiot cultural views with expansion and further arming of the police, significantly increased defence spending, pulling out of the EU and NATO and doubling down on the French protectionist, social-security driven economy.
If you're a typical European hard right voter I doubt you've much of a problem with her.