Opinion of Emmanuel Macron

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Obviously a terrible person.

[Wake Me Up When The Hard Border Ends]

HP, better than Le Pen though.

[NeverAgain]

Eh. Not great, not awful. Looking forward to seeing him bring France back from it's high unemployment.

[TDAS04]

Glad he won.

[JA]

The personification of all the socioeconomic, cultural, and political trends that have led to the rise of the far-right across the Western world.

[Blue3]

I'll wait and see... but he seems a lot more fiscally-conservative/deregulation/tax-cutting than I think many on the left celebrating his victory assume.

[ApatheticAustrian]

france needs a lot of deregulation and tax-swtiching right now, to be able to improve the social safety net and the job market on the long run.

[Blue3]

I also wonder... and I don't hold this against Macron... but do a lot of people know that he married his high school teacher?

[ApatheticAustrian]

I also wonder... and I don't hold this against Macron... but do a lot of people know that he married his high school teacher?

how could anyone not? it's front and center in all articles about him.

[JA]

I also wonder... and I don't hold this against Macron... but do a lot of people know that he married his high school teacher?

He met her at 15 while she was 39; their relationship became official when he was 17. Interestingly, that was in ~1995 and she did not divorce her ex-husband until 2006 - with whom she has 3 children. All of those children now live with her and Macron, I believe.

A truly French love story

[buritobr]

There is no option "too early to have an opinion"

[OSR stands with Israel]

beep boop

just like your hero trump you can only come up with childish insults when you cant debate the points I made.

[Vosem]

Seems like an FF (voted this way; definitely an FF in terms of making the right enemies), and definitely much better than all the other options in France's election, but enough of a tabula rasa that I might withhold judgment for a bit.

[Mr. Smith]

Justin Trudeau - except less funny.

[Zioneer]

Empty suit, but better than Le Pen. Here's hoping the Socialists can bounce back and defeat both Macron and Le Pen in the next election.

[Illiniwek]

FF for standing up for flawless, beautiful neoliberal Western values.

One of the greatest FFs alive today.

[MAINEiac4434]

A case can be made for FF for beating the sh**t out of Le Pen, but overall hp. Better than the alternative. Hopefully he governs further to the left (unlikely, I know).

[Sir Mohamed]

Huge FF.

[fhtagn]

HP but less of an HP than Le Pen.

[7,052,770]

A true progressive hero and all-around smart, likable guy. Very jealous of France.

[Since I'm the mad scientist proclaimed by myself]

Eh. Regulation isn't automatically a good thing. Cutting taxes isn't automatically a bad thing. France is a country with a very different situation from the US in many ways. The most typical corporate tax rate around the developed world is around 25%. France is at about 33%. France has incredibly strict employment regulations. German austerity is doing horrible things as well. Macron fighting against those is probably one of the more important things that can be done. Lean FF for now, with the information I have.

Congratulations to the new leader of the free world! Mon roi est vivant!

HAHAHA france being the leader of the free world lmao . France is not even as important to the world as Germany and the UK let alone the United States who still is the leader .

Chill.

[ApatheticAustrian]

writing about the importance of UK and germany in the same sentence atm is kind of hilarious.

[Antonio the Sixth]

A true progressive hero and all-around smart, likable guy. Very jealous of France.

lol

hahahaha omg

[Pyro]

Awful, but I'm glad he beat the fascist