part of why I want to push back against full Doomerism is that last month it looked like the EU was going to be plunged into a fascist revival and mass torment of immigrants was unavoidable.
Now we have the UK stopping their foreign concentration camp idea and France knee capping the right.
Good lesson in trying to parse out the degree to which media predictions and analysis and narratives actually mean anything. Similarly I think the US freakout over Biden Old doesn't matter, at all, to 99% of people
Also note that Macron is also a shitty centrist that people hate but people rallied around his party to keep the far right out. This shit motivates voters