{"id":441,"date":"2017-05-08T11:41:49","date_gmt":"2017-05-08T11:41:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gallerynews.com\/current\/?p=441"},"modified":"2022-02-07T06:06:05","modified_gmt":"2022-02-07T06:06:05","slug":"france-grip-cold-terror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gallerynews.com\/current\/france-grip-cold-terror\/","title":{"rendered":"France in the Grip of Cold Terror"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-13 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gallerynews.com\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/thisdowdyworld.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"61\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-14 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gallerynews.com\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/ianstuartdowdyhal.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"118\" height=\"164\" \/>The expected news that Emmanuel Macron would win the presidential runoff in France on Sunday accounted for many bitter tears on the part of \u00abLe Penistes\u00bb and yet it was not wholly a surprise.<\/p>\n<p>For many years it has been apparent that voters in Western &#8220;democracies&#8221; are generally willing to trade the health\u00a0of their peoples and nations in exchange for short-term economic stability.<\/p>\n<p>Whether or not the Macron regime will collapse in short order, as most French regimes have in the past century, remains to be seen. 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