One year since the New Popular Front won a surprise election victory, France’s left looks more divided than ever. This month’s Socialist congress showed how much the party is at loggerheads with Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s France Insoumise.
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The crucial point to understand here is that “the left” did not exist in France even before Macron. There are at least two lefts, possibly three, and they’re divided by genuinely unbridgeable disagreements. They’re capable of uniting to “win” an election but absolutely not of governing together. And none of this is particularly unique to France, it’s similar across Europe.
Welp, gotta dismantle them so we can give it all to the fasch then.
