It was actually his sister-in-law who figured it out, and it was his pedantry that did him in. He hated when people said “you can’t have your cake and eat it to”, so the fact that his manifesto said “you can’t eat your cake and still have it” was a tell

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Please don’t be a pedant on my pedantic posts about pedantry!!

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His formulation was, "You can't eat your cake and have it too."

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This is implicitly what I argued in today's newsletter, drawing the parallel to 2020 in the US (inexact as it is). As always in France, the downside is ego among contenders for the divided center-left to center-right spectrum in a system where parties are disposable vehicles for personal ambition.

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The only such opinion I saw maybe a bit of cope, can't say: that the riots undermine Melenchon, making it more likely for a moderate candidate to be her opponent in the final round of the elections, so it's not a purely red-brown affair.

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