Is Macron the EU’s Last Best Hope?

Guest Post by Patrick J. Buchanan

For the French establishment, Sunday’s presidential election came close to a near-death experience. As the Duke of Wellington said of Waterloo, it was a “damn near-run thing.”

Neither candidate of the two major parties that have ruled France since Charles De Gaulle even made it into the runoff, an astonishing repudiation of France’s national elite.

Marine Le Pen of the National Front ran second with 21.5 percent of the vote. Emmanuel Macron of the new party En Marche! won 23.8 percent.

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Macron is a heavy favorite on May 7. The Republicans’ Francois Fillon, who got 20 percent, and the Socialists’ Benoit Hamon, who got less than 7 percent, both have urged their supporters to save France by backing Macron.

Ominously for U.S. ties, 61 percent of French voters chose Le Pen, Fillon or radical Socialist Jean-Luc Melenchon. All favor looser ties to America and repairing relations with Vladimir Putin’s Russia.

Le Pen has a mountain to climb to win, but she is clearly the favorite of the president of Russia, and perhaps of the president of the United States. Last week, Donald Trump volunteered:

“She’s the strongest on borders, and she’s the strongest on what’s been going on in France. … Whoever is the toughest on radical Islamic terrorism, and whoever is the toughest at the borders, will do well in the election.”

As an indicator of historic trends in France, Le Pen seems likely to win twice the 18 percent her father, Jean-Marie Le Pen, won in 2002, when he lost in the runoff to Jacques Chirac.

The campaign between now and May 7, however, could make the Trump-Clinton race look like an altarpiece of democratic decorum.

Not only are the differences between the candidates stark, Le Pen has every incentive to attack to solidify her base and lay down a predicate for the future failure of a Macron government.

And Macron is vulnerable. He won because he is fresh, young, 39, and appealed to French youth as the anti-Le Pen. A personification of Robert Redford in “The Candidate.”

But he has no established party behind him to take over the government, and he is an ex-Rothschild banker in a populist environment where bankers are as welcome as hedge-fund managers at a Bernie Sanders rally.

He is a pro-EU, open-borders transnationalist who welcomes new immigrants and suggests that acts of Islamist terrorism may be the price France must pay for a multiethnic and multicultural society.

Macron was for a year economic minister to President Francois Hollande who has presided over a 10 percent unemployment rate and a growth rate that is among the most anemic in the entire European Union.

He is offering corporate tax cuts and a reduction in the size of a government that consumes 56 percent of GDP, and presents himself as the “president of patriots to face the threat of nationalists.”

His campaign is as much “us vs. them” as Le Pen’s.

And elite enthusiasm for Macron seems less rooted in any anticipation of future greatness than in the desperate hope he can save the French establishment from the dreaded prospect of Marine.

But if Macron is the present, who owns the future?

Across Europe, as in France, center-left and center-right parties that have been on the scene since World War II appear to be emptying out like dying churches. The enthusiasm and energy seem to be in the new parties of left and right, of secessionism and nationalism.

The problem for those who believe the populist movements of Europe have passed their apogee, with losses in Holland, Austria and, soon, France, that the fever has broken, is that the causes of the discontent that spawned these parties are growing stronger.

What are those causes?

A growing desire by peoples everywhere to reclaim their national sovereignty and identity, and remain who they are. And the threats to ethnic and national identity are not receding, but growing.

The tide of refugees from the Middle East and Africa has not abated. Weekly, we read of hundreds drowning in sunken boats that tried to reach Europe. Thousands make it. But the assimilation of Third World peoples in Europe is not proceeding. It seems to have halted.

Second-generation Muslims who have lived all their lives in Europe are turning up among the suicide bombers and terrorists.

Fifteen years ago, al-Qaida seemed confined to Afghanistan. Now it is all over the Middle East, as is ISIS, and calls for Islamists in Europe to murder Europeans inundate social media.

As the numbers of native-born Europeans begin to fall, with their anemic fertility rates, will the aging Europeans become more magnanimous toward destitute newcomers who do not speak the national language or assimilate into the national culture, but consume its benefits?

If a referendum were held across Europe today, asking whether the mass migrations from the former colonies of Africa and the Middle East have on balance made Europe a happier and better place to live in in recent decades, what would that secret ballot reveal?

Does Macron really represent the future of France, or is he perhaps one of the last men of yesterday?

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kokoda - the most deplorable
kokoda - the most deplorable

No: Macron = more of the same

Back in PA Mike
Back in PA Mike

Macron is the epitome of establishment. Could be an interesting 2 weeks.

General
General

Macron is an ex-banker. People voting for their own slavery…..

Suzanna
Suzanna

Gossip = Macron is gay and the 25 yr older wife = patron.

BL
BL

Smoke and mirrors play to fool the French sheep into believing that they have NEW choices. Macron is owned by the Rothschilds.

El Douche looked like some thing new to the sheep also, look how that has turned out……..the banksters are “WINNING”. But then again, when don’t they win?

Mark
Mark

A vote for Macron is a vote to stay in the Euro currency and a vote for more Islamic terrorism. As such a vote for Macron is an act of high treason.

As such those who vote for Macron will eventually have violence turned against them should Macron win.

Thus the removel of Islamist from France will not be peaceful nor orderly.

wdg
wdg

It will always come down to blood and soil because this is what defines who we are despite the power of Rothschild banksters and other gangsters to brainwash and deceive the masses through their control of the propaganda and subversive Main Stream Media, our economic system and cultural and educational institutions. Le Pen needs to drop the gloves and present this election as a war of survival for the French people against the globalist controlled by the Rothschild banking syndicate who are funding the traitor Macron. This is a war between freedom and tyranny, liberty and enslavement, peace and endless war. And in this election, we are all Frenchmen now because their war is our war, their fight for freedom is our fight for freedom because we have share the same enemy which is an International Criminal Banking Syndicate that controls all western nations including the USA. Those who have the resources should be campaigning for Le Pen in France over the next two weeks.

Flying Monkey
Flying Monkey

Brexit was not supposed to go through, Trump was not supposed to win, Le Pen is not supposed to win either…..

It will be interesting especially with the market pundits saying the rise is because Le Pen got 21% and the other guy got 23% and Le Pen will therefore lose. The Fat Lady still has to sing.

MrLiberty
MrLiberty

Viva Le Pen !

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