The 2017 French presidential election

The 2017 French presidential election

Watch: Miller Center historian Will Hitchcock discusses Emmanuel Macron's victory over Marine Le Pen

First, there was Brexit. Three-and-a-half months later, Americans elected Donald Trump as the 45th President of the United States. Did Marine Le Pen's loss to Emmanuel Macron in the French presidential election of May 7 mark the end of an anti-establishment, anti-globalization trend in the Western world—or something else?

Miller Center historian Will Hitchcock, an expert on Europe, US foreign relations, and President Eisenhower, unpacks the result from the French, European, and American perspectives.