French far-left set to beat Le Pen’s far-right in election shock

After the first round of voting on June 30, Le Pen’s party was on course for its best ever election result.
Macron and Mélenchon worked to stop Le Pen
Frantic political maneuvering over the past few days saw Macron’s team and leaders of parties on the left muster their forces in a national effort to thwart the far right. Hundreds of candidates on the left and center of French politics pulled out of the election to avoid splitting the anti-Le Pen vote.
Their initial aim was to stop Le Pen’s party winning an outright majority, which seemed a likely outcome a week ago. Instead their efforts may have handed the initiative to the other extreme of French politics, the far left.

So the majority of French citizens have put the communists in charge. along with the most radical of the green parties. A 90% income tax is promised, “but only on the rich”, the nuclear plants that France depends on for its energy will be shut down and decommissioned, and the borders opened still further. Did I mention that the farmers and Jews are screwed?

I don’t particularly care about the French — not until they pay reparations for their slaughter and persecution of my Huguenot ancestors, and return the the land they stole (including the castles, please; thank you very much) — so I’ll just pop the popcorn, sit back, and enjoy the show.

UPDATE: Over on RedState, Bonchie has a nice summary of the elections in England and France. His headline: Europe Doesn’t Want to Be Saved”. His summary: Let it burn. You can only help those who want to be saved.”