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DEMOCRACY VERSUS PUTIN IN FRANCE

In one corner we have incumbent President of France Emmanuel Macron and in the other, Marine Le Pen, buddy of Vladimir Putin, and threat to destroy democracy and the European Union.  Is the free world in danger? Well, I don't think so.  While Pen is supposedly in a stronger position today than she was when she ran against Macron in 2017, the Ukraine War essentially destroyed her chances.  Not too many Putin fans in France.  Further,  Macron won the 2.5 hours presidential debate held on May 3, 63% to 34%.    Macron is still only 39 years old, and Pen is 48. Her father was founder of the National Front ( her supporting party ) and regularly tried to become president since 1974.  They are anti-Muslim and said to be creepily fascists.  However, she expelled her father from his party in 2015 for carrying extreme views. Marine is, in too many ways, a  female Donald Trump .  She and her father somehow avoid paying taxes, are anti-immigration, soon after Trump became president headed for T