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Macron’s approval ratings must be below 3% by now. If he had any backbone, he’d resign immediately.

You made me look : it's about 27% [1], which is of course not great, but actually not that bad _for him_, _in the past few years_.

The political landscape is completely split in 3 thirds in France at the moment, and people stay firmly in their lanes.

It would need an incredibly popular décision to bring anyone from the left or far right to approve of him.

[1] https://www.latribune.fr/la-tribune-dimanche/politique/barom...

Thanks for actually looking things up instead of dreaming things up. This reminds me of Trumps claim that Zelensky is a hugely impopulair dictator, whereas in fact his approval ratings far exceed Trumps and he is very much legally chosen.

Misinformation is a disease.

That said, I was also expecting smaller numbers, mostly based on how comedians are routinely roasting him about his latest declaration on Russia.

So there is, at the same time, an "oh, god, he's trying to use Russian fearmongering" effect that is just too big for comedians not to use ; and, somehow, a "rally around the flag" effect where people thinks he's actually on to something.

I would love to know if someone has studied the effects of comedians on misinformation. Hyperbole and exagérations are par for the course when making jokes - I just don't know if people are starting to take comedians both seriously (as you should) and literally (as you should not.)

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