Macronian Technocracy Poses a Grave Threat to Western Democratic Institutions

President Emmanuel Macron has invoked Article 49.3 of the French Constitution in order to push through his pension reform bill without putting it to a vote in the National Assembly. This is the hundredth time that the French government has invoked this article since it was introduced in 1958. The tense stand-off between Macron's government and ordinary …