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Macron Just Doesn’t Get It
He and others on the left are being swept along by world-historical forces they do not fully understand.
Good guy, wrong moment.
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The sorry truth is that both progressives and neoliberals still don’t get it, and that seems true in France most of all.
Since the election of President Emmanuel Macron in 2017, I have read or heard that he is the leader of the free world, the hope for Europe, and a model for the U.S. Instead, he increasingly seems to be a well-meaning guy elected in the wrong historical era.