Source: EconLog
by Pierre Lemieux
“The upcoming legislative election in France (on June 30 and, for the second round, July 7) tells us much about politics. It also suggests some comparisons between American and French politics. … Many Americans do not realize that the typical Democrat in America would be called center-right in France. A detached analyst would be hard-pressed to find differences between, say, Barack Obama and Emmanuel Macron. The political extremes are less extreme in America than in France, but that may have started to change a few years ago. In the current French election campaign, it has been observed that the only program elements on which all the parties in the NPF really agree is to increase taxes and transfers — that is, to redistribute more money and benefits in kind to favored political clienteles.” (06/20/24)
https://www.econlib.org/the-french-the-americans-and-the-plague-of-politics/