President for the rich | The decline of Emmanuel #Macron
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The most damaging legacy of the protests has been his increasing characterization as a plutocrat: a poll in early December 2018 found that 75 per cent of the public agreed with the gilets jaunes’ depiction of him as “le président des riches”. In a country whose symbolism remains anchored in Revolutionary mythology, this tag could well prove fatal.