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This is comforting given the outlook on the US election.
The problem with the US (and Canada, and to a lesser degree the UK) is that the centrists would rather lose to the far right than legitimize actual leftism.
We’ve seen this in Canada several times, at all levels, where the Liberals would rather go down in flames in an election, knowing that they'll get another shot in a few years time, then share power with actual leftists in order to keep the right from doing more damage.
I'm really impressed with Macron. That's a level of long term holistic thinking that you don't normally see from neoliberal politicians.
It seemed to have been a bet that the left would be completely divided so that he could place his party as the defender against the far right in order to get an absolute majority (he only had a relative majority until now)
That didn't work because the left parties managed to create a united front in less than a week.
But let's not forget the following: yes, the left parties have a relative majority (or at least should given the last estimations), but the far right did gain a lot of seats in the elections compared to last time. So yeah it could have been worse, but it's not exactly a comfortable situation either
Now we hope they don't eat eachother.