Two great forces exist in world history. Internationalism and nationalism. In a conflict, nationalism always wins. Internationalism is represented by Alexander the Great’s Cosmopolitanism, Imperial Rome, Universal Catholic Christendom of the Middle Ages, Communism, Islamic Umma, and now One world UN, and EU. All have, in time failed. Globalism only helps International corporations. But in the end the Nation State will win—The Rich multinationals have the money, but the Nation states have the guns. EU will fail—be taken over by Germany or Russia. France is following the right path. Macron is on the wrong side of history.
France is not only torn between gloablism and nationalism, it remains torn between the philosophical ideals the French revolution claimed to embody and the means of achieving them - the mob. Even if the “nationalists” win out and France, it will continue to remain unstable, limping from one constitution and one republic to another. Why? It has all become embeded in the Culture, which is stronger than ideologies or religion. Just as in Russia and China, it is culture that maintains a steady path, even as the politics changes the appearance, but not the substance of political power.