Emmanuel Macron is a facile and Machiavellian intriguer of the highest order. I will leave to others in the commentariat to discuss his bona fides for French President, his abhorrent collectivist notions of governing and all the other platitudes that point to a creature that has provided the planetary if not historical model for the dangers of the Peter Principle. He is a man out of his depth, which may be anything beyond a minor provincial council position and even that would be a stretch. Like Hollande, the toxic socialist doppelganger to Obama in France, Macron will be more of the same. I do take solace in Hollande's communist 75% super tax being an abject failure.

The French fully embrace Napoleon Bonaparte's tried maxim: "In politics, stupidity is not a handicap."

Macron is marketed as a center candidate in France but a centrist candidate in the French polity is just to the left of Barak Obama.