Once again, liberals would rather kowtow to fascists than give an inch to the left.

For fun (to torture myself) I decided to check out what r/neoliberal has to say on this, since they're the kind who will scream about "democracy" so much. Unsurprisingly, they're trying to either downplay this or outright support Macron's tactics. I even saw one of these dweebs with a NATO flair say: "Never give the left an inch of power." Lmao. Really dropping all pretense there.

stability

there's that word again

Wolfgang Schäuble, a powerful advocate of austerity policy in Europe, succinctly summarized the extent to which electoral democracy is subordinate: “Elections cannot be allowed to change economic policy.”

from https://redsails.org/why-marxism/

German Minister of Finance Wolfgang Schäuble, advocate of austerity policy in Europe, was less crass yet no less succint in 2015:

Elections cannot be allowed to change economic policy.

from https://redsails.org/brainwashing/

Didn’t he insist on the elections because the far right was more popular than him lol

: "You don't have the balls to do shit about it."

French public:

He has invited Le Pen to talk about it, so the neoliberal fash alliance is likely going to happen.

Imagine that, liberals being more willing to cooperate with fascists than even succdems.

what did I say dawg, I told you

France was a mistake.

Would be a good time for some good ol' fashioned rioting in the streets.

They should have some old guillotines just lying around.

neoliberal coup

The fun part is that it is absolutely legal and constitutional to do so. Generally the french president is a de jure dictator and has all legal means to become a de facto one very easily. In that case, the french president is the one who decides alone who is the prime minister. The theory that he had to pick a NFP prime minister is rooted in an unofficial tradition that was upheld by his predecessors but only because they thought it was a smart move to play compromises. Macron doesn't need any real changes to have full power, he's simply the first one to actually abuse the full potential of the constitution

Respecting the norms and institutions so hard right now. Don’t forget Vuvuzela election fraud 1984

Somebody get Juan Guaidó on the horn—we need an interim President.

First as tragedy

Then as farce

I told them they already have a PM.

The 18th Brumaire of Emmanuelle Macron

I don't really get what's so surprising. The National Assembly has a 67% right wing majority, and Macron has always rejected collaborating with the left. "But the left won the election" is just cope.

I'm a little unclear about the specifics of the French system, but this essentially means Macron is trying to run a minority government and appoint a PM from his party, right? So...he'll need the fash to give him supply (I think a coalition is unlikely) and...why would they do that when forcing a deadlock and another dissolution would just hurt Macron at this point?

I guess Macron could just not, and deal with collapse of supply since he's the only one who can dissolve parliament and both the right and left would need to agree to impeach, but then it's like a US budget crisis on steroids.

Getcha yellow vests ready