Now he's going to liberate 150.000 government workers of their jobs to bring down mass unemployment. Doesn't sound really logical if I put it down like that but that's what it comes down to. Reminds me of Macri in Argentina. Probably just as ineffective.

> He is also of a generation from which most people barely use emails

This does not match my experience at all. Most people I know of his generation use email heavily.

It's really not a one-dimensional line. Compare the Democrats to Germany's center-right CDU/CSU, for example. The Democrats are well to their left on most social issues, but mostly to the right on economics.

Macron is probably best defined as a neoliberal, a somewhat coarse-grained label which is nonetheless fairly well understood globally. Despite his previous party affiliation, he is not any flavor of socialist.

It's relative to France.

Globally, "left wing" and "right wing" would probably have little overlap: the left-wing Venezuelan leadership is authoritarian and pro-social services, the right-wing Le Pen is... authoritarian and pro-social services.

I certainly hope it was intended to be sarcastic, but—sans an explicit callout—it can be very difficult to tell if someone meant a comment to be such.