@NYT & @DLeonhardt almost breathe a sigh of relief ? Macron, Macron, Macron...
Almost Marx comments:
The New York Times and David Leonhardt almost breathe a sigh of relief, but Political Hysteria, just doesn't just wait in the wings!!
Headline: Macron scores a comfortable win, but domestic concerns loom.
Emmanuel Macron’s re-election victory means that one of Western Europe’s biggest powers will not be run by a far-right nationalist who wants to distance France from NATO and who has a history of closeness to Vladimir Putin.
The victory is a tribute to Macron’s skill as a politician and policymaker. Although hardly loved by many French citizens, he has managed the Covid-19 pandemic well and helped accelerate economic growth during his first five years in office. In a solemn speech last night in front of a twinkling Eiffel Tower, Macron said the French had chosen “a more independent France and a stronger Europe.”
Still, the campaign offered some new warning signs for Western democracies. Le Pen’s showing was considerably better than in France’s last election, in 2017, when she won 34 percent in the final round versus Macron. And when her father made the final round of the presidential election, in 2002, he won only 18 percent of the vote.
Over the past two decades, a growing share of French citizens have drifted toward the Le Pens’ nationalist politics, with its hostility toward Muslims and skepticism of the institutions that have helped keep Western Europe largely peaceful and unified since World War II.
It’s a common story across Western democracies, including the United States. As many working-class voters have struggled with slow-growing incomes over recent decades — a result of globalization, automation and the decline of labor unions, among other forces — they have become fed up with traditional politicians.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/04/25/world/macron-french-election#macrons-win-doesnt-mean-radical-politics-are-going-away-our-columnist-writes
Here is a screen shot of a portion of an earlier report by Mr. Leonhardt awash in World Historical Melodrama, maladroitly practiced !
‘The world’s democracies has avoided another new crisis’
‘The victory is a tribute to Macron’s skill as a politician and policymaker’
Mr. Leonhardt enunciates, Macron The Neo-Liberal Redeemer Party Line:
A later edition :
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But Mr. Macron’s victory was also narrower than in 2017, when he first faced off against the anti-NATO, pro-Russia Ms. Le Pen. Fewer voters backed Mr. Macron this time around, as the highest abstention rate for a runoff presidential election in half a century — 28 percent — pointed to rising political disillusionment and economic grievance.
I believe that in 2017 the rate of those spoiled, blank and uncountable ‘ballots’ was something over 32 %. But checking the results of the 2017 election on CNN which has been trimmed of a once very informative statistical data!
Neo-Liberalism is still a Cancer that Corporate Media can't stop swooning over. The number of spoiled, blank & uncountable ballots might mean what?
Yours,
Almost Marx