Posted on 04/24/2017 6:59:39 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
It was a brilliant strategy that the Power Elites have executed. A candidate running as a Socialist could not win, so they had Macron leave the Socialist Party, start his own party, and call himself a “centrist.” After the election, he can either rejoin the Socialists or make a deal with the Republicans, if they are the majority party.
Fund in 2016, said that Iowa would be Donald Trumps kryptonite.
Fund was/is a National Reviewer Master Never Trumpster. He was wrong last year about Trump and is probably wrong Le Pen!
Iowa was not Donald Trumps kryptonite, after all. Back in the halcyon days before the New Hampshire primary, pundits of all stripes were eager for a theory that could explain how Donald Trump would lose in the Republican race even though he had been leading in the polls for months. One was that Iowa would be the Trump killer. Because of the states caucus system, Trumps lack of a ground game would hurt him there. And if he lost in Iowa, then his luster would fade and hed quickly diminish.
A leading advocate of this hypothesis was Bill Kristol, who predicted in late December that when Trump loses Iowa, the mystique disappears, [and] hes just another candidate. Writing in National Review, John Fund made a similar prophesy, arguing that, Losing Iowa Could Be Trumps Kryptonite. Variations of this theme could also be found in Vox and elsewhere.
https://newrepublic.com/minutes/129596/iowa-not-donald-trumps-kryptonite-all
Yeah I’ve heard that! .... think the Dreyfus Affair & J’Accuse!
Hmmm. When Sarko was up for re-election, a bunch of his defenders on here argued that it was "France's last chance". Seems they've been getting quite a lot of "last chances" lately.
Reminds me of how 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012, and 2016 were ALL supposedly "the most important Presidential election of our lifetime"
The next election is always the most important.
Interesting article, from an source I wouldn’t expect to print anything worthwhile
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/01/emmanuel-macron-french-voters-marine-le-pen
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