Your writing is lively and graceful. Apparently , the left is doing better than expected. Why. Please speculate.
Sometimes I think that a party will be at its strongest when people will assume that it is a spent force. For example, I read that in the late 60's, the French left was considered quiescent and almost moribound because Charles De Gaulle had assumed such tight-fisted control over the country. And then, in May 1968, France exploded with revolution .
I am no expert on France or on Europe. Since you are stationed in France, please tie French developments to American developments, and global developments, so your readers in other parts of the world can understand the IMPLICATIONS of a French political event for political affairs in other parts of the wor.ld.
The key to Mélenchon’s success is practical, local politics, the old fashioned kind. The media had one message, which it repeats over and over again : the Left was cooked, done, fini. They’ll have to revise that now… M has built a party that while it leans heavily on his leadership - and his appearances on TV, where he plays the sharp-witted Only Lively Guy in Town - is organized locally all over the country. The younger generations who’ve come up through his ‘school’ will be around. You can’t say the same for Le Pen’s chancers. So your line about ‘spent forces’ has some validity. The big question now is whom negotiates with whom. Macron will gravitate to the moderate Right Les Républicains in search of a majority. Giving the Right such a platform is dangerous both for us and them. They’ll be exposed.
Dangerous I think and probs beyond my ken to extrapolate from France to Europe. The utterly feeble and chaotic response of European powers to the cruel military adventure undertaken by both hegemonic powers, Russia and the U.S., reveals a continent adrift with no clear politics, afraid of taking definitive steps that might permanently alienate either of the Big Two. Things were so nice before this mess, when political figures could kick every can down the road. What you are probably asking is, Could an emboldened left spread to other countries ? Baring some definitive event, not yet.
As to the U.S. couldn't the following be written about certain liberal politicians Over There ? 'The most remarkable achievement of Macron’s five-plus years in power is to oversee the spectacular growth of the far right, from a protest movement to a party with nearly 100 seats in the French parliament.'
Your writing is lively and graceful. Apparently , the left is doing better than expected. Why. Please speculate.
Sometimes I think that a party will be at its strongest when people will assume that it is a spent force. For example, I read that in the late 60's, the French left was considered quiescent and almost moribound because Charles De Gaulle had assumed such tight-fisted control over the country. And then, in May 1968, France exploded with revolution .
I am no expert on France or on Europe. Since you are stationed in France, please tie French developments to American developments, and global developments, so your readers in other parts of the world can understand the IMPLICATIONS of a French political event for political affairs in other parts of the wor.ld.
The key to Mélenchon’s success is practical, local politics, the old fashioned kind. The media had one message, which it repeats over and over again : the Left was cooked, done, fini. They’ll have to revise that now… M has built a party that while it leans heavily on his leadership - and his appearances on TV, where he plays the sharp-witted Only Lively Guy in Town - is organized locally all over the country. The younger generations who’ve come up through his ‘school’ will be around. You can’t say the same for Le Pen’s chancers. So your line about ‘spent forces’ has some validity. The big question now is whom negotiates with whom. Macron will gravitate to the moderate Right Les Républicains in search of a majority. Giving the Right such a platform is dangerous both for us and them. They’ll be exposed.
Dangerous I think and probs beyond my ken to extrapolate from France to Europe. The utterly feeble and chaotic response of European powers to the cruel military adventure undertaken by both hegemonic powers, Russia and the U.S., reveals a continent adrift with no clear politics, afraid of taking definitive steps that might permanently alienate either of the Big Two. Things were so nice before this mess, when political figures could kick every can down the road. What you are probably asking is, Could an emboldened left spread to other countries ? Baring some definitive event, not yet.
As to the U.S. couldn't the following be written about certain liberal politicians Over There ? 'The most remarkable achievement of Macron’s five-plus years in power is to oversee the spectacular growth of the far right, from a protest movement to a party with nearly 100 seats in the French parliament.'