Macron popularity plummets at home (29%) as he pushes globalism on world stage

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Wonder why the boi trio (lymeboi/fanboi/pooboi) can not run

over there and fix shit for him??





French President Emmanuel Macron has presented himself as the international
leader defending multilateralism and globalism against the rising forces of
nationalism -- but at home he is facing a bleaker political outlook and
plummeting poll numbers.

The dashing Frenchmen ran for the presidency in 2017 on a platform of
pragmatic centrism, mixed with a dash of globalism amid a wave of
nationalism sweeping through the continent. His comfortable victory over the
nationalist Marine Le Pen was greeted with relief and joy by those concerned
by the populist wave.

He was soon hailed as an unofficial leader of Europe, and even the world. As
recently as April, Politico called him the "new leader of the free world."
Macron appeared to embrace that mantle as he came to the U.S. and made a
fiery speech to Congress warning against nationalism and calling for an
embrace of multilateralism and international cooperation.
"We will not let the rampaging work of extreme nationalism shake a world
full of hopes for greater prosperity," he told Congress.

Last month, he was at the United Nations General Assembly, castigating the
same nationalist forces -- which was widely seen as a swipe at President
Trump as he slammed a unilateralist approach that entails "a certain
lawlessness where everyone pursues their own interests."

"I will never stop upholding the principle of sovereignty even in the face
of a certain nationalism, which we're seeing today, brandishing sovereignty
as a way of attacking others," he said just hours after Trump addressed the
assembly.

But back home things look extremely shaky. His approval ratings have dived
as low as 29 percent. Last month he was dealt a further blow when Gerard
Collomb, the interior minister, resigned after having attacked Macron's
government for a "lack of humility."

Some of Macron's unpopularity can be put down to his larger reputation as a
narcissist obsessed with power and image. A number of politically awkward
viral moments -- including him recently lecturing an out-of-work gardener to
look harder for a job -- have hardened that image

"Less than 30 percent, according to the most recent polls, have a favorable
opinion of him and half of the those who disapprove of him are very
disapproving," Ezra Suleiman, professor of politics at Princeton University,
told Fox News. "Those who have soured on him find him arrogant, didactic and
not concerned with their problems."

He has also faced difficulty in walking a fine line on immigration, trying
to solve a continuing European migration crisis without alienating left-wing
support for his broader agenda. France's parliament approved a bill in
August that increases the time migrants can be detained, and also shortened
application deadlines for asylum claims. It was opposed by some left-wing
lawmakers, who decried it as inhumane while some on the right said it did
not go far enough to deal with the migration crisis.