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I'm still hopeful about Macron. The Shrike Send a noteboard - 25/08/2017 06:25:31 PM

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I'd say the jury is out on Macron... it doesn't look too promising so far. It's a situation that I would call almost unprecedented in modern western history, to hand a political neophyte all the levers of power so easily, and which was always going to create unrealistically utopic expectations... so I'm prepared to cut him a good bit of slack, but ultimately he does need to show results.

He was helped by the collapse of his rivals. And then to face off against Le Pen made it almost inevitable that he would win.
This was a recent What If article by the Economist About Him
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