Midway through the world’s biggest election year in history, America’s allies across the pond in the United Kingdom, France and the European Union have now completed their voting. Results of these elections are now settled and clear, but what to make of them is not.
The conservative Tories were kicked out of the UK’s highest leadership as expected, while the far right National Rally, which advocates against immigration out of concern for diluting French identity, was unexpectedly prevented from gaining this same power in France, thanks to a centrist and left-wing coalition. In earlier…