Media Reacts to Macron’s Landslide Win as France’s President: ‘Au Revoir les Fascists!’

“The center doesn’t just hold in France. It kicks ass,” tweeted MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough

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News that liberal-centrist Emmanuel Macron won the French presidential election in a landslide victory over far-right candidate Marine Le Pen became the No. 1 talked-about topic on Twitter Sunday, especially among the media.

The Atlantic’s senior editor David Frum voiced his opinion with a meme of the Titanic sinking and the caption “Americans can take pride that their example still shapes the world,”

Meanwhile, MSNBC’s Joy Reid said it succinctly in a foreign tongue: “Au revoir les fascists!”

Here are a few more of those no-holds-barred reactions:

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https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/861285602599350273

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