Nationalism Alive, Well, and Kicking

How the Self-Righteous Have Fallen

President Macron of France has mounted his soap box and stabbed nationalism to death.  At least that's what he thought he was doing.  He and Angela Merkel were on the "right" side of history.  The world was rejecting nationalism in favour of internationalism.  Macron insists that it was a much, much higher calling to serve the globe, not piddly little France.

The price of petrol and rising taxes were caught up in this.  Macron, driven by his global messianism, insisted that France pay a higher price for virtually everything so that money would be available to fund the current flavours-of-the-month (environmentalism, green energy, and the like).  Within a heart-beat the nation turned upon him.  So much for an object lesson for the power of nationalism.  Apparently the archaic notion that governments should serve those whom they represent was not such a fossilised relic in France after all.