The French government has been toppled in a vote of confidence, plunging the euro zone's second-largest country into deep political and economic uncertainty.
It really seemed like he didn’t, and was pulling out all the stops to block them. And then he did an about-face and extended an olive branch to them after they were kept out of power. Kinda insane.
It’s the kind of liberalism that acts progressive until it might actually make a difference, then flees to the right. Although Macron has never really looked progressive.
Bet he wanted the French far right to win the elections.
Fucking moderates want to campaign on progressive values so they need to move everyone else further right so they seem progressive in comparison.
It really seemed like he didn’t, and was pulling out all the stops to block them. And then he did an about-face and extended an olive branch to them after they were kept out of power. Kinda insane.
It’s the kind of liberalism that acts progressive until it might actually make a difference, then flees to the right. Although Macron has never really looked progressive.
It was electoral calculus nothing else.