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Re:Emmanuel Macron Wins French Presidency in Boost to EU by hyperbovine on Sunday May 07, 2017 @03:22PM (#14287074)
Wouldn't the establishment candidate have been a member of either the Republican or Socialist party? I do not see how you can call Macron a member of the establishment except insofar as he is educated and successful.
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Re:Emmanuel Macron Wins French Presidency in Boost to EU by mamon on Sunday May 07, 2017 @03:30PM (#14287128)
Macron was working in a Rothschild owned bank, in the president Hollande's administration, and also was a ministry in Socialists government - he's really well connected to the establishment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmanuel_Macron

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Re:Emmanuel Macron Wins French Presidency in Boost to EU by hyperbovine on Sunday May 07, 2017 @03:36PM (#14287168)
Right but my point is that if you preemptively disqualify everybody that held high positions in industry or government, who's left to rule the country? Idiots like Le Pen.
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Re:Emmanuel Macron Wins French Presidency in Boost to EU by mamon on Sunday May 07, 2017 @03:58PM (#14287280)
I didn't say that you should "preemptively disqualify" them, just that calling Macron "anti-establishment candidate" is laughable.

Government and big corporations are the very definition of establishment.

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