Don’t Tell the French — But They’re Americans Now
Emmanuel Macron has changed his country and Europe — and not in ways that he necessarily intended.
The French won’t love the comparison. Charles de Gaulle, François Mitterrand and Jacques Chirac — those proud French leaders of past days — might turn over in their marble tombs to hear it. But this country’s politics, its approach to the global economy and even believe it or not its foreign policy have all gone à l’américaine.
The unwitting godfather of this transformation is the currently beleaguered French President Emmanuel Macron.
