Hello ladies, hello gentlemen. This is the Victor Davis Hanson show. I'm Jack Fowler, the host, the star and the namesake is the Martin and Eli Anderson senior fellow at the Hoover institution.

Wayne and Marsha Busky Distinguished Fellow in history at Hillsdale College. He's best selling author of the dying citizen, farmer, classes, military historian. You can find just about everything Victor writes and everything he does links to his video appearances and other podcasts at Victor Hanson.com

I'll talk more about that in a minute. Today we are recording on Palm Sunday, April 10th, the show will be aired on the worldwide webs on Holy Thursday to some of us.

Today France is voting for President and I think it's the first round of voting. But you know, we've never really talked all that much in detail about manual Macron or Marie Le Pen,

who seem to be locked in a neck and neck race over there in France. So when we come back from these important messages, we'll get Victor's opinion on them and the election and the consequences of it. So here we go. These are some important messages.

We're back with the Victor Davis Hanson show. So Victor by the time this is broadcast, the election results will be known. But as of today polling and political reporting has put this race neck and neck.

Marie Le Pen and Emmanuel Macron. I think there's someone else in the race. And again, I think this is the first round. There always seems to be a second round. I don't know maybe somebody gets a full majority in the first round. There is no second round.

But I think this is an excellent opportunity to discuss a few things. Your thoughts about the rise of the right. We'll call it the right. Maybe it's the rise of the anti left. Maybe that's more accurate in France. The performance of Emmanuel Macron as president over these last few years.

And maybe even if you have an opinion of France's role in the dynamics of geopolitics in 2022, is it significant? And if it is, who should we be rooting for? You don't have to answer that. Don't talk about whatever you want, Victor.

Well, Macron is a technocrat in the European mole. I mean, they all come out of approved technocratic or diplomatic schools in France. And they're on a trajectory from if they have the right family name or they have the right contacts or their parents were in government much more so the United States. And they go to the approved.

They're in the crisis of the same, and they're in, of course, these are norm and then they emerge. That's how all of them do with exception of the goal. And so he's pretty much a predictable center left Frenchman.

Well, being French, everything's about France. And, you know, I once went into Versailles and I walked through the hall of mirrors and you go look at all the great military victories of France and they kind of stopped at alsterlets basically.

sad because it's a wonderful country that seems to be obsessed on a power,

commiserate with their argument that their culture is superior, their language is

superior, their architecture, their literature, their history, their food, and

therefore they, that in itself rather than Abrams tanks up 35s or you know

the American fighting man just gives them global preeminence and it doesn't

happen that way so then you're always dealing with sort of a some part of an

inferior already complex. That said when you start looking at French

conservatives like Raymond Iran or any of these people they tend or even

Camus, they tend was not a conservative but when they're reasonable they

tend to be more reasonable than we are so they produce some of the greatest

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