Although as usual, the American media's response to an important foreign election was a huge, collective yawn, Macron's win over Le Pen by a landslide margin is easily the biggest story of the week. President Zelensky of Ukraine can heave a huge sigh of relief.
What to say about Le Pen besides the fact she is an unredeemed fascist and race baiter who would have dragged France out of NATO and plunged France into internal conflict over immigration. The specter of a nazi France allied with Putin's Russia is too dystopian to speculate. Fortunately, the French were smarter than we were in 2016 and saw the danger to democracy represented by Le Pen. Having lost their freedom several times since 1789 their institutional memory is better.
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