Emmanuel Macron and his friends are looking for a divide that is both moral and legible. On the one hand those who want victory against Russia and for freedom; and on the other, those who submit to Putin and totalitarianism.
The virulent exchange on current issues between Gabriel Attal and Marine Le Pen confirmed that small internal political calculations were never far from the major strategic considerations. Here is the RN identified with nothing less than an enemy occupying army and accused of being ‘the party of the foreigner’