Heard Tell w/ Andrew Donaldson for 25APR22

Macron Beats Le Pen, CoS Klain Goes Hmmm, AMLO & Mexico at a Crossroads, guest Gabriel Salazar Sing

Your Heard Tell for Monday, April 25th, 2022, is turning down the noise and getting to the information we need on French President Emmanuel Macron defeats Marine Le Pen, what it means for France, the “global right”, EU, and NATO, plus what that countries highest abstention rate for a presidential vote in 50 years means. White House Chief of Staff Ronald Klain took to Twitter to make a comparison between Macron and his boss President Biden, but missed out on a few very big differences, we will talk about approval polls, elections, and how things that are different are not the same. Guest Gabriel Salazar Sing from Young Voices joins us to explain that there is trouble down south in Mexico, and while the US press and punditry fixate on the border Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has gone from bending democratic and institutional norms to changing and breaking them. Gabriel explains the history of AMLO, how Mexico got to this point, and the alarm bells going off for worldwide watchdogs over things like electoral process, freedom of the press, and whether Mexico could slide into a dictatorship. Also, Rep…