With the resignation of 100 members from Emmanuel Macron's new party, it is time to examine the origins and rise of that most improbable of things, a supposedly mass and populist movement to turn France, of all places, into an outpost of Anglophone liberal elitism, of all things.
Someone thought of that. Someone paid for it. Someone organised the relentless media campaign in support of it. Someone ensured that the candidate who, by being in a runoff against Marine Le Pen, was bound to beat her, was not Jean-Luc Mélenchon, as would otherwise have been the case.
But never mind. You just keep frothing at the mouth about Russia. Ignore this. And ignore the fact that a former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Tony Blair, was recently on the mighty BBC's flagship radio news programme, shilling for the regime in Saudi Arabia. Hostile foreign state interference, indeed.
Someone thought of that. Someone paid for it. Someone organised the relentless media campaign in support of it. Someone ensured that the candidate who, by being in a runoff against Marine Le Pen, was bound to beat her, was not Jean-Luc Mélenchon, as would otherwise have been the case.
But never mind. You just keep frothing at the mouth about Russia. Ignore this. And ignore the fact that a former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Tony Blair, was recently on the mighty BBC's flagship radio news programme, shilling for the regime in Saudi Arabia. Hostile foreign state interference, indeed.
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