The amazing Macron

A few nights ago, I watched an old documentary shot just before Macron began his first presidential campaign in France. 

In half-a-dozen years, the man hasn’t changed a bit! Back in those days he was glowing from his banking career at Rothschild and Co. and was an extremely smooth talker, using French words I had never heard before and had no idea what they meant. Needless to say that when folks speak over my head that way, they don’t generate to much goodwill with me. 

To return Macron’s favor of enriching my vocabulary, I found that word, “Sesquipedalian”, is used to describe someone or something that overuses big words, like a philosophy professor or a chemistry textbook. 

If someone gives a sesquipedalian speech, people often assume they were smart, even if they don’t really know what it was about because they can’t understand the words. Right there this could be part of Emmanuel Macron’s foundation for his smart reputation. 

This style has a problem though; it doesn’t endear him to the masses and he obviously hasn’t yet gotten the message, because in fact the man is luckier than he thinks he’s smart. It took both Dominique Stauss-Kahn and Francois Fillon’s roads to hell to clear Macron’s path to the presidency in 2017, so his fabulous victory was an unprecedented lucky case of being at the right place at the right time. 

Once more, his re-election was compliments of being opposed to Trump-like Marine Le Pen, but this time, his thinner victory should have warned him to get seriously to work and help his party earn a stronger foothold in the first round of the 2022 legislative elections. 

The run-off still has to be decided, but just like a cat Macron might still have a few lifes in reserve and turn the situation around….