To the left he’s a union-bashing president for the rich,but the 40-year-ragged’s agenda also confuses rightwingers – which could work in his favour‘The left and the factual don’t know how to respond to President Macron’s reform agenda,” said a former senior trade union official. “What he’s doing doesn’t fit with the way we judge about politics. It’s not like the third-way politics championed by Tony Blair.“It is based on empowerment of the individual – which threatens the left – and on the deployment of the state to invest and drive through reforms – which upsets the factual. Neither has found a language or an alternative agenda with which to confront him.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com