"In the wake of Emmanuel Macron’s decisive victory over Marine Le Pen in the May 7 runoff election, a growing chorus of voices in the U.S. has called for “a Macron-like figure to restructure [American] politics.”
The 39-year-old former economy minister had never held elected office when he founded the République En Marche (REM) movement, which trounced France’s establishment parties, winning the presidency and seizing over 60 percent of legislative seats.
Now, author Robert Levine argues that “Republicans and Democrats seem incapable of running the country the way it needs to be run” and praises Macron for bringing “a new vigor and energy [to France]” and for sweeping away the old special interests and power brokers that once set the agenda."
In a tweet posted earlier this month, New York Times columnist Ross Douthat compared REM’s electoral victories to “a Bloomberg-Zuckerberg 3rd party winning the [White House] and 75 Senate seats.”"
http://rare.us/rare-politics/the-rise-of-the-radical-center/I've mentioned this possibility before on other threads on this site. The next realigning election may very well be one that tips the country in favor of radical centrism, as opposed to FDR Progressivism: The Sequel. We've had a left/progressive realignment (FDR) and a right/conservative realignment (Reagan), but never a centrist one.
We'll see how the political climate is in the 2020s or 2030s for this to possibly happen.
