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The Let-Them-Eat-Cake Legacy of Emmanuel Macron

YELLOW PESTS

Macron’s boxcar load of belligerent responses to the disenfranchised is nothing new in France.

A. Craig Copetas
A. Craig Copetas
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A. Craig Copetas

A. Craig Copetas

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