French elections weekly: the beaver left comes to Macron’s aid (again!)

Macron’s re-election proves the woke left has become the most ardent wing of a reactionary class which opposes all working-class concerns.

Despite all the murmurs of a potential bombshell result, Sunday’s French presidential election gave us little more than the inevitable disappointment that was originally promised. Choosing to enter his victory ceremony to the tune of Ode to Joy (the EU’s official hymn, stolen from Beethoven), as opposed to la Marseillaise, the re-elected President gave us a taste of what was to come in his second mandate.

While I may loathe the man, one thing I cannot fault Emmanuel Macron on is his political astuteness. Indeed, his five-year plan fell nicely into place on Sunday: build an anti-France coalition of boomer and bourgeois collaborators, rely on the media to present the quite frankly unelectable Marine Le Pen as a reformed moderate for the first round, before relying on the media to present Madame Le Pen as a dangerous fascist dragging us back to the 1930s for the second round. As a result, the so-called beaver left came out in full force to “build a barrage against the fascists” and help Emmanuel Macron over the line in the second round.

As I have mentioned in previous articles, any rational left-wing voter would have held their nose and voted against Macron, him being the most anti-social candidate. According to French politician Francois Asselineau, Marine Le Pen’s manifesto policies aligned with seventy-two per cent of Mélenchon’s proposals while only twenty per cent of the latter’s policies mirrored those of Macron’s program. Despite this, the leader of the biggest left-wing bloc did not hesitate to call on his voters to back Macron in the second round, barely a few minutes after the exit poll results were released. Consequently, forty-two per cent of Mélenchon voters came out and re-elected the neo-liberal President, with just a mere eighteen per cent backing Madame Le Pen.

Analysing the final result, a clear divide between the active and inactive citizens of France has emerged. Indeed, while Macron won a majority of the student (eighteen to twenty-four year olds) and retired (sixty-plus year olds) vote, Le Pen dominated amongst the French workforce (twenty-five to fifty-nine year olds).

Admittedly, Marine Le Pen’s party has a troubled past. If one were to scrutinise Macron’s tenure, however, one could find many cases of the French President utilising language and enacting policies which would qualify him as cancelled by the woke left.

In 2019, the incumbent found himself at the centre of a heated debate when he banned his party’s candidate, Sara Zemmahi, from running in the local elections for having worn a hijab on her campaign poster, despite French law not explicitly prohibiting such a practice.

Macron’s progressive mask has also slipped on several occasions when visiting French overseas territories or former colonies. During the 2017 G20 reunion in Hamburg, the French President came under fire for suggesting African women having “seven or eight children each” was the prime cause for African underdevelopment.

Worse still, the former Rothschild banker caused uproar on his visit to French African territory Mayotte when he cracked a highly inappropriate joke about the fragile Kwassa Kwassa fishing boats and the drowning of thousands of Comoran immigrants trying to reach the island.

The French President’s comments have certainly not been forgotten by the local population who came out in droves to vote for Marine Le Pen, delivering her highest score of 42.7 per cent in the first round before giving her over sixty per cent of the vote share in the second round. One must remind oneself that Mayotte’s population is around ninety-seven per cent Muslim. In fact, the so-called ‘racist islamaphobe’ blew her competitor out the water in almost all of France’s African and Caribbean overseas territories. Her most impressive results were in Guadeloupe where she received almost seventy per cent of the vote share as well as obtaining over sixty per cent of the vote in French Guiana and Martinique.

Having mostly voted for Mélenchon’s left-wing bloc in the first round, France’s overseas territories were able to make the rational switch to Madame Le Pen in the second round. As I will analyse in greater detail in my following article, these results completely went against the media narrative which tried to demonise the ‘deplorable’ vote base of the National Rally.

Ultimately, the French Outremer did their patriotic duty while the metropolitan lefties allowed themselves to become the useful idiots for Macron’s re-election. If I were to use their own words, the woke left saw themselves as the white saviours against a non-existent fascism.

Jean-Luc Mélenchon has a lot to answer for. His call to vote for Macron will ultimately hurt his own supporters most. Furthermore, one must point out the class war behind the increase of the retirement age. Indeed, the poorest twenty-five per cent in France will never reach the retirement age and thus never earn their pension. The average middle-class, university educated, desk-job, metropolitan leftie would have thus been able to place the “X” next to Emmanuel Macron’s name with greater comfort compared to the hard-working farmers and manual labourers who mostly voted for the National Rally out of pure economic desperation.

Whether it be the French yellow vests, the Brexit revolt or the Canadian truckers, recent events have proven that the woke left has become the most ardent wing of a reactionary class which opposes all working-class concerns. Regrettably, the French presidential election can now be added to that list.