Another day, another French prime minister comes out to wave the white flag.

“The conditions were no longer in place for me to exercise the functions of prime minister and allow the government to go before the National Assembly,” French Prime Minister of just 27 days, Sebastien Le Cornu, said in an address to the nation on Monday morning of the government that he had appointed 14 hours earlier.

”Political parties were maintaining a posture as if they all had an absolute majority in the National Assembly. Basically, I found myself in a situation in which I was ready to compromise, but each political party wants the others to adopt its entire program,” he added.

Le Cornu sounded like a kid in front of the teacher explaining why he’s turning in a shoddy exam after a month of studying. His argument is that all these parties and stakeholders he had to work with are simply impossible. What was your first clue? Did you not see all the bodies of other former Macron-appointed prime ministers you had to step over to reach the driver’s seat?

Macron racked his brains to come up with yet another handpicked puppet as prime minister – a fifth in just three years – since they’re resigning almost as fast as he can pick them. And a month ago, he selected Le Cornu, a former defense minister, who then spent weeks trying to figure out his cabinet, while keeping in mind that the opposition anti-establishment right and left........

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