Macron’s ‘Revolution’ Faces a Reckoning: Lionel Laurent

Could the re-election campaign of France’s President Emmanuel Macron be any less inspiring?

As French voters go to the polls on April 10 for the first of two voting rounds, gone is the enthusiasm or interest in the election of 2017, when Macron came to power as the youngest leader since Napoleon Bonaparte, with a new party promising to sweep out the establishment, knock out a rising Europhobic far right and bring about a liberal “revolution.”

Yet this year the stakes for France, Europe and the world are even higher in many ways. With Germany’s new coalition government still finding ...