• Skua@kbin.earth
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    5 months ago

    Macron’s first and second presidential elections were second round left-centre team ups, right? Is there a reason to think it wouldn’t happen this time?

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      5 months ago

      Centrists forcing lefties to rally behind them to stop fascism is a classic.

      Centrists rallying behind the left to stop fascism… Not so much.

      See the Democrats rather having Hillary throw the election than put in Bernie in 2016.

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      5 months ago

      Before, the left helped the liberals here win over the Nazis. Now the question is whether the liberals will help the left win this time. Quite a different problem

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        5 months ago

        What’s going to happen is that they will help just enough to be able to say they helped, but not enough to change anything in the end