A small takeaway following the French elections.

1) For the first time in more than half a century, the two largest mainstream parties, the Gaullists and Socialists, did not go into the second round. This tectonic shift, French politics is changing right before our eyes. Moreover, Fion has all chances to get the 4th place, and the candidate of socialists Hamon is the 5th, that is, considered the main political forces of the party even in the top three may not enter, not that in the second round.

2) According to all the laws of the genre, a candidate from the center-right was supposed to win, but Fillon's unsuccessful choice of the primaries failed all these hopes. If there was Juppe, he would easily win. The right-wingers bought into anti-Islamist rhetoric and chose an asshole. Not for the first time. The conclusion is simple: if a dude comes up with anti-Islamist rhetoric, then this is not enough to make him a good candidate, heal yourself on the nose. Increasingly, we see that this niche is occupied by assholes, for lack of other arguments. With Fiyon and corruption there have been big problems for a long time, I know even some former members of his government and it was a well-known fact.

3) This is the third time when a large Western center-right party is incredibly furious. In America, Republicans failed to nominate their candidate for president and nominated a nonpartisan who turned out to be a complete woodpecker and demonstrates the 100 worst first days in the history of the presidency. And they, like the French in Fijon, did not perform due diligence due to it, and there are a bunch of skeletons in the closet from misunderstandings with the tax declaration to the ties with Russia. In Britain, Cameron arranged Brexit. In France, the right-centrist nominated a devil-knows-who and really have a chance to take the fourth place, letting ahead even (!!) Communists.

4) All Hollande scoffs, but the fact that the election is won by his ECONOMIC MINISTER (McRean was the Minister of Economy at Hollande), says that not everything is so simple - the French just clearly want "socialism with a human face", that is, there The same request for a socially oriented centrist policy without the collapse of markets, as in the whole world. Centrism rules, we'll talk about this progressive ideology separately.

5) Lepensch was predictably deflated against the background of the anti-populist wave in Europe, which we already saw in Austria and Holland. Well, immigrants, are you better than that? This is the systemic weakness of all anti-immigrant parties: they really have nothing more to say. Out of the euro area to get out? Are you a fool at all? The European Union ("leftist", "bureaucratized", "ineffective") is the world champion in attracting foreign direct investment, five trillion dollars, almost twice as much as the "libertarian" States. Investors can not be fooled, they understand well where better.

Of course, without the euro and the common market, nothing would have happened.

In general, as well as it has been told - the old woman-Europe well takes revenge for idiotic anti-globalist throwings of Anglo-Saxons.

Let's drink 150 for Macron and European values!.

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