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French President-elect Emmanuel Macron. Reuters


Crisis or Stasis?

Crisis or Stasis?

After the cascading weirdness of recent Western history, the results from France’s presidential election were strangely … normal. All the hours that Trump-traumatized commentators spent imagining how Marine Le Pen could get from the low 40s to striking distance turned...