Macron pledges to cut 120,000 public jobs, reduce spending by 60 billion Euros, jettison the 35-hour workweek, raise the retirement age, weaken unions’ negotiating strength, and cut corporate taxes. All the standard neoliberal "trickle-down" policies that really represent dooH niboR.

This will lead to more unemployment and more inequality in France. The rich will get richer, but nothing will trickle down to the poor.

Youth unemployment, the lack of a future to hope for, tends to be concentrated in minority groups. In France that means Muslims. That's the exact opposite of what is needed to discourage Islamist radicalization.

Let's hope it is Mélanchon rather than Le Pen that gets the support of the victims in the next French election.