True, but this is also applies to the FReepers getting all excited thinking LePen will be "right wing" because the media says she is.
There is a valid point to be made that "centrist" Macron is ideologically more like Obama, but the same can be said for about 90% of the political parties in France. Most of their "right-wing", "left-wing", and "centrist" parties are far closer to Hillary Clinton than Ronald Reagan. Anyone even remotely resembling an actual American style conservative ends up in about 8th or 9th place in the French elections, and never makes it to the runoff.
The one post above was an excellent summery: Macron is about as “centrist” as Mao Tse-tung. And Le Pen is about as “far right” as Susan Collins.
The French election is simply a matter of "lesser of two evils"
> True, but this is also applies to the FReepers getting all excited thinking LePen will be “right wing” because the media says she is.
She’s right wing in the only way that matters in Europe: She wants her people not to be over run be an invasion of 3ed world immigrants. Her opponents are inviting them in. Who gives a damn about economics in the face of that?