Emmanuel Macron’s Win Offers Him a Chance to Be Great
Winston Churchill was once asked whether he thought that Charles de Gaulle was a great man. “He is selfish, he is arrogant, he believes he is the center of the world,” Churchill replied. “You are quite right. He is a great man.” Something similar might be true of Emmanuel Macron.
The French president, who is projected to be reelected for a second five-year term today, is certainly selfish, and arrogant, and seems to think that the world revolves around his own apparently endless brilliance and grandeur. His first term has been littered with moments of empty bravado and failure that in many cases have had far more to do with his promotion of his own interests than the truth. Remember Macron in Lebanon like some Roman emperor restoring order to the provinces? Whatever happened to that mission? Or him lecturing a French youngster for to ask “Ça va, Manu?” instead of calling him Mr. President?
