Guys Macron isn't some kind of idiot savant. His party did better than expected because of Attal and his decisive choice to call for trailing second round candidates to resign. If you keep ascribing this to Macron I will actually slap you
Convinced most of the Macronist candidates who were in third place to drop out so that the leftist in their race would win instead of the fascist - while Macron was telling them to stay in.