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Many of these people are not fascists, antisemites, looking for a fight. Some among them maybe. It’s easy to put on a yellow gilet.
Despite his budget -busting concessions, and great national debate (monologue) Macron has not yet convinced them.
Or anyone.
Despite his budget -busting concessions, and great national debate (monologue) Macron has not yet convinced them.
Or anyone.
Other than more Europe, and his falling out with Britain, Italy and the United States, what is his project? He talks of an intact reform agenda but France is backing into a recession. He becomes more authoritarian, patronising and disagreeable.
And this is before we get to the scandal in the presidential household with the faithful Benalla who turned out to be a rum cove but who now may know too many secrets.
The Euro elections are where Macron will try to restore his mandate with his slate of LREM candidates facing hopelessly divided opposition.
Macron initially self-identified as Jupiter and bears interesting comparisons to both Napoleons and even to Pétain (I am told this is extreme). He wants France and Germany to rule Europe. (Germans see it reversed). He’s even Gaullist. He wants Britain out.
France, meanwhile, feels like it is slipping again. Perhaps this is less important to him than the big European picture. But it is why he will remain a divisive figure.
