BTW, I'm pleased that NR lost in France.
But it's pretty tough to celebrate the ascendancy of a guy who called French Jews “an arrogant minority that lectures to the rest” in a 2017 speech.
BTW, search that quote here on Bluesky and you'll find only one post mentioning it - the one above. (Unless everyone else who bothered has blocked me, I guess.)
Do people just not know this about Melanchon? Or does it just not matter?
It definitely is the better outcome. It'd just be nice if people recognized that it was a "lesser of two evils" situation, rather than an unalloyed good