A couple of weeks ago, I reviewed the four major candidates running in the French presidential election and expressed general pessimism.
This Sunday, Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen will face each other in the runoff election.
That’s a rather depressing choice. Macron is a former official in the disastrous big-government Hollande Administration and Le Pen is a big-government nativist who wants to preserve the welfare state (though not for immigrants).
Like choosing between Tweedledee and Tweedledum.
Not encouraging since the country needs a Ronald Reagan or Margaret Thatcher.
A column in the Wall Street Journal explains France’s untenable position.
The deeper question is whether French voters accommodate themselves to reality or cling tighter to their economic illusions. …“The French try to erase historical experience,” Pascal Bruckner tells me. The literary journalist is one of a very few classical liberals among French public intellectuals. He says his compatriots “have…
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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