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Macron is definitely more right-wing than might have been expected five years ago. That being said, even with the largest possible definition of "populist", he
by phtrivier 5y ago
Macron is definitely more right-wing than might have been expected five years ago.
That being said, even with the largest possible definition of "populist", he hardly qualifies.
The most likely outcome of this election round (president + assembly) is a macron presidency with an "official" right-wing coalition of macron's party with the most "centrist" part of the right wing. Very run of the mill stuff. And populists keeping their job as "yelling from the side".
Then again, "eternity of one month".
- rayiner 5y agoI’m not saying he’s a populist, I’m saying that the populists have scored a significant victory by pushing him to the right on cultural issues even if he ultimately wins reelection.
- zozbot234 5y agoMilitant secularism is not a right wing position in France. It's very much part of the shared zeitgeist. This is the country that once had a "Cult of the Reason Goddess" as their state religion, and their modern über-secular laïcité is not very different.
- rayiner 5y agoThe secularism isn’t right wing, but he’s also had strong words against American progressive ideology: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/09/world/europe/france-threat-american-universities.html https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/09/world/europe/france-threa...
- BlueTemplar 5y agoNot to mention that if anyone pushed for the distrust of Islam, it was Daesh's actions... (which itself didn't just spontaneously materialize out of thin air, but we're really getting out of topic here)
- phtrivier 5y agoOk, my bad. I would argue that the populists pushed the "classic right" to the right, more than they did macron ; but that's fair to say they pushed everyone. (Thanks cnews..)