Prime Minister François Bayrou sparked outrage from the opposition, and indignation from his allies, when he referred to a feeling taking root in France of being “flooded” by immigration. The prime minister was accused of citing the “Great Replacement” conspiracy theory that has fuelled the far right for decades.

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      Nothing new in France, Macron has been doing it since 2017. As someone smarter than me once wrote:

      the trouble with centrists is that they’re neither left-wing nor left-wing

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    He struggles to sell a coherent economic program so the easy way to stop asking questions about the economy is to deflect using outrageous cultural wars debates