Remember when Maron was the future of Europe and a transformational leader? Good times
He's almost less popular than Hollande was at the end of his term.
And yet, he is right about everything and is actually getting stuff done...
Is he? He’s not achieved any of his proposed EU reforms - the Digital Tax is basically dead and proposed French reforms of the Eurozone aren’t happening: he’s stood down on the fuel tax and much do the vaunted reforms that he proposed seem increasingly unlikely to pass. A President on such low approvals doesn’t have the legitimacy internationally to force through EU reforms, and makes it much harder to pass domestic changes especially considering his movement is a new political movement so those in it are a lot less likely to have loyalty to it.
A big thing in Macrons campaign was that he felt like Hollandre or Sarkozy or other French presidents were too weak and folded as soon as people protested against them and, well, look at yesterday.
Macron is easily the best president this century. Besides, look at who the reactionaries in the yellow vests are and what they're protesting--they won't win the hearts of the coalition that carried him to victory.
He’s got a 26% approval rating and won such an overwhelming victory because he was running against a Fascist: wouldn’t take much to force a First Round loss. Also 72% of people in France support the Yellow Jacets for whatever reason. If you ignore three quarters of the people in your country when you need 50% to win an election, then you are incredibly stupid.
