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If you trust E.Macron, I have a nice bridge to sell you. Trump is a liar, but so is Macron.

France's government is working on a law to force the messaging providers to implement a backdoor that would break E-to-E.

Macron has promised to end homelessness before being elected. It never happened. He was supposed to stop the rise of the far right, the far right has never been higher.

He was suppose to simplify France's bureaucracy to help entrepreneurs and trim the fat so that we stop burdening the new generation with crippling debt. The debt has literally exploded under his presidencies, crime is on the rise and Islamism terrorism as well.

His political capital in France has vanished. His party does not control the parliament nor the senate. His own prime minister is not from his party and as such will not implement Macron's agenda.

Macron is more interested in pushing the interests of the EU or Ukraine than those of France itself.

In France, the president is the one who sets the agenda in terms of foreign policy and that is what Macron is focusing on. On the rest of the issues that France is currently facing, he basically has no say on it.

He is basically a lame duck president who has less than 2 years left and can never run again.




There's a lot to things to blame Macron for, but your post is an incredibly bad faith caricature. Like, this:

> He was suppose to simplify France's bureaucracy to help entrepreneurs and trim the fat so that we stop burdening the new generation with crippling debt. The debt has literally exploded under his presidencies

Was Macron supposed to magic Covid out of existence? The "whatever it takes" approach he took was the best possible policy for preserving the economy, and exploding debt was the cost.




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