The gilets jaunes protests are not only about economics but political disaffection
“Can we borrow him?” Gary Lineker asked in April of the “charismatic, smart and ballsy” Emmanuel Macron. The BBC presenter was far from alone in being besotted by the French president.
“His basic message to the French people,” observed the Liberal Democrats’ Vince Cable, is “exactly the formula that I and my party can offer.” In Le Monde, Tony Blair showered praise on Macron’s “remarkable ideological clarity”.
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