{"id":40376,"date":"2018-11-10T08:39:54","date_gmt":"2018-11-10T13:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=40376"},"modified":"2018-11-11T13:51:15","modified_gmt":"2018-11-11T18:51:15","slug":"40376","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=40376","title":{"rendered":"France: The Incredible Shrinking President"},"content":{"rendered":"
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France: The Incredible Shrinking President<\/a><\/h3>\n
Macron\u2019s Popularity Collapses While Interior Minister Predicts Civil War<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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I\u2019ve said it before and I\u2019ll say it again: Emmanuel Macron, the current president of the French Republic, is a weird dude. Now, after just 18 months in power, he is also a very unpopular dude. The French media have been making much of the fact that Macron\u2019s prime minister, \u00c9douard Philippe, has been slightly more popular than the president in certain polls. But really, what we are seeing is an almost perfect parallel collapse in popularity of both personalities.<\/div>\n
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That French presidents are unpopular is nothing new. However, there is a secular trend in them getting unpopular more and more quickly upon getting into office. True, Macron is not as unpopular after 18 months as was the hapless and squishy Fran\u00e7ois Hollande, who could deliver on virtually none of his Socialist economic promises. However, Macron as collapsed in popularity more quickly than Nicolas Sarkozy did, who was a one-term president.<\/span><\/p>\n

The English-speaking Macron said he wanted to turn France into a \u201cstart-up nation.\u201d A bold ambition, but it\u2019s worth remembering that 90% of start-ups go bankrupt.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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I personally don\u2019t understand the French electorate on these matters. Macron in particular did not promise anything other than to deliver more of the same<\/i> policies, albeit with more youth and more vigor, as a frank globalist. Who, exactly, was excited at his election but is disappointed<\/i> now? People with a short attention span or susceptibility to marketing gimmicks, I assume.<\/span><\/p>\n

It is hard to talk about the French media without getting a bit conspiratorial, at least, I speak of \u201cstructural conspiracies.\u201d Macron\u2019s unabashed, \u201cmodernizing\u201d globalism certainly corresponds to the id<\/i> of the French media-corporate elites and to top 20% of the electorate, let us say, the talented fifth.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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France: The Incredible Shrinking President Macron\u2019s Popularity Collapses While Interior Minister Predicts Civil War I\u2019ve said it before and I\u2019ll say it again: Emmanuel Macron, the current president of the French Republic, is a weird dude. Now, after just 18 months in power, he is also a very unpopular dude. The French media have been […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[920,15342,333,22902,19452],"class_list":["post-40376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-civil-war","tag-emmanuel-macron","tag-france","tag-guillaume-durocher","tag-the-unz-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40376"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40378,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40376\/revisions\/40378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}