Daily Signal
[…] Macron will also have to deal with the impression that “Macron didn’t win, Le Pen lost,” as leftist candidate Jean-Luc Melenchon put it Sunday.
For starters, turnout at 75 percent was the lowest in a French presidential election for over half a century. Over four million of those who voted cast a blank ballot.
In this hyper-political nation, clearly there was no passion for either Macron or his rival, Le Pen, in Sunday’s runoff.
Macron and mother wife.
There’s also the fact that Le Pen managed to win 35 percent of the vote despite being weighed down by her party’s ugly past, as well as her own. Her share of the vote was double what her father, Jean-Marie Le Pen, won in 2002 when he ran against former President Jacques Chirac.
She won over a third of the vote, even though the word “toxic” was so associated with her in the media that last month, she launched an attack on German Chancellor Angela Merkel, telling the BBC that it was her who was “toxic.”
Had Le Pen been a normal candidate, without her party’s noxious mix of anti-Semitism, racism, and Putinism, her message of national identity, assimilation, traditional family, and solidarity with those who hail from “la France Profonde” (the France of Catholic mysticism and village life) would have performed much better.
Le Pen was such an imperfect vessel for questions that have seized the world’s imagination—as evidenced in recent elections in the U.S. and the United Kingdom—that last week, she had to plagiarize, almost word for word, a speech on assimilation and identity that a candidate who lost in the first round of the elections delivered in April.
Macron is a self-styled centrist, and in the French context that may be true (the left’s candidate vowed to impose a 100 percent tax on incomes above 400,000 euros).
But Macron is without question the champion of multiculturalism, environmentalism, alternative family arrangements, transnational governance—especially at the European Union level—and open borders.
Following a terrorist attack in Paris last month, Macron wondered on French radio whether terrorism is a new normal to which the French must become accustomed. “This threat, this imponderable problem,” Macron said, “is part of our daily lives for the years to come.” MORE
Fur, why showcase a Left wing article like this?
The smears against LePen are untrue.
Macron is not a “Centrist”.
There are credible claims of widespread ballot fraud and ballot tampering. A 30-point win by Macron defies credulity, even by the most pro-Macron polling, which “only” had him 20 points ahead.
They should give Greece another loan too.
Kickin’ the can down the road…
Surrender monkeys never learn. It will be hard to feel sorry for them when the next attack comes. This is what they voted for.
Now that they have destroyed their tourism dollars how long can their economy last on wine and cheese?
Grooming a country and its people for islamization = “centrist”
Riiiiiiiiiiight……
This proves collective stupidity is alive and well across the western world.
I tell family and friends that our election was similar to the Steelers-Seahawks Super Bowl played in 2006, where the Seahawks not only had to play against the Steelers but also against the Refs.
Fortunately for us this time around the players (we the people) were able to overcome the obvious bias and cheating of the Refs (liberal county election officials).
I wish that I could say “too bad for France that they couldn’t beat the libs” since this event will affect many millions of lives everywhere, not just in France.
And unfortunately the Super Bowl analogy is too good. The Stealers won.
Time to fire the Refs.
A lot of people didn’t show up to vote. Same as us getting 0bama the first round. Ugh.
trump would have beat them both !
“I geet on zee stool and put zee rope about my neck …
and theen I jump off!
Sacre bleu!
Oui must zurrender to Merkel, at once!
Tout sweet!”
Let France become the European magnet for Islam.
Similarly, let California become the magnet for parasitical America and illegals, Islamic or otherwise (undocumented democrats).
Build a wall around both eventually. Problem solved.
Hey man, as long as they keep turning out those delicious brand of fries and toast I’m cool with it.
Well the final vote count proves that 20 million Frenchmen CAN be wrong.
Is the dude gay, or did he hang with his ugly
ass rapist monkey since high school for a reason?