France had its second-round election for president Sunday, and as expected, Emanuel Macron won a second term, the first president to be reelected since Jacques Chirac in 2002. And like Chirac, he beat a Le Pen, in that case, Jean-Marie Le Pen — in Macron’s case, his daughter Marine Le Pen, who some years ago kicked her father out of the Rassemblement national party he once led. Macron also beat Marine Le Pen in the second round in 2017, by 32 points. This year, he won by about half that — 17 or 18 points.

As I pointed out after the first round of voting on Sunday, April 11, Macron came uncomfortably close to being squeezed out by the populist (negative on immigration, leftist on economics) Marine Le Pen on his right and the leftist Jean-Luc Melenchon on his left. Nationally, Macron had 28% of the vote to 23% for Marine Le Pen and 22% for Melenchon.