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In reply to the discussion: Le Pen beats Macron in France as nationalists gain in EU vote [View all]The Liberal Lion
(1,414 posts)I would actually call what happened a win for normality. Macron, while somewhat popular here in the States and as well photogenic, is nevertheless a right wing, free-markets conservative. True conservative, not this bullshit acting like conservative these days in America. Given that we here are liberals and progressives Macron loss to Le Pen means less to us than the gains by the Greens in particular. The liberals, more a fiscal conservative party like Republicans of old at least claimed to be, are as well no friends of the nationalist. When read in it's entirety I think the results of the EU election give little reason for concern of the fate of EU liberal democratic institutions. I would say the elections show that while nationalism continues to gain small footholds, traditional, post WWII Europe still rules the day and should actually be a more formidable obstacle for the further spread of putin influenced nationalism.
Sadly, however, it seems Britain is lost. That's at least what I got.