Meet the Robot-Taxing, Marijuana-Legalizing, Jeremy Corbyn of the French Left
French left-wingers are fed up with being in power.
That appeared to be the message that 600,000 of them were sending Sunday when they made a little known former education minister the favorite to win the left’s presidential nomination.
Benoît Hamon, who spent the past two years as a Socialist backbencher fighting his own government, has little to no chance of winning the presidency in May. Then again, neither does the runner-up in Sunday’s vote, former Prime Minister Manuel Valls, according to the latest Ipsos poll.
Valls campaigned on a scrupulously realistic, some would say boring, platform of incremental change, always touting the possibility of a left-wing victory in May. By contrast, Hamon never suggested victory and drew accusations that he was deliberately campaigning not to win by pitching far-out ideas like taxing robots, legalizing marijuana and paying all French people a €750 living wage.
The criticism rolled off Hamon’s back....
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