Macron basically built a political party around him. That worked before and now it isn’t. In democracies, personalist parties have to adapt or they will crumble with their leaders declining popularity.
I wrote this in 2017, shortly after Macron's 1st win.
I said: Macron is so open about being hostile to Left, that it salvages a huge path for the broad left to be an alternative... if it manages to unite.
Few things I've ever written have aged so well.
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