A very small part of the voters embraced Macron’s vision of France. The majority voted mostly to block the way to Le Pen, who for various reasons is still massively rejected by the political class. Some see Macron as the spiritual brother of Justin Trudeau, even if he is less flamboyant. Macron wants to give optimism to his country. Those who are worried about populism will applaud him. Macron wants to be progressive. Those who have reservations about the globalization that deconstructs societies will be worried. Macron is comfortable with multiculturalism.
Eric Zémmour on the radio just said new France’s president is "Peter Pan at the Eliseo". He then called Macron "the eternal youth syndrome, the God of the consumer society". The French-Canadian intellectual Mathieue Bock-Coté spoke of Macron as the president of "liberal consensus" who won in the name of "diversity". Francois Xavier-Bellamy defined Macron as "the France which forgets", the France which chooses the "cultural euthanasia". Ivan Rioufol, a well known columnist at Le Figaro, wrote that Macron is the expression of the "bourgeois urban left".