Normally, 35% for a far right party is cause for alarm. In France's case, it ain't necessarily so
Macron was even more "Independent" than Sanders ever was, and stayed that way. He deliberately made it difficult to nail his positions down. His major feature was that he wasn't any of the others. Not a lot else was really known about what his convictions are and what he intends to do, and STILL he got two thirds of the vote. LePen may have been a disaster, but a known disaster. France chose not to go there.
A nation rarely gets to vote for someone whose name could just as well have been "None Of The Above," and it's a rather unusual set of circumstances that permitted Monsieur "Above" to not only win, but win decisively. In the upcoming parliamentary elections, he will have a hard time, because to get legislation passed, you need a healthy bloc of your party's members voting for your proposals. He has no such party, and has about four weeks to form some semblance of one, or at least form some kind of voting coalition out of thin air in the parliament. Nice trick if you can manage it. But now that he has pulled the presidency off, he can't very well sit of his derrière and wait for something to happen, so his slogan of "en marche" is very appropriate--far more so after the election than before.
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