across the atlantic where you are, the trump win was a surprise, and it seemed to shore up this idea that nationalism, populist policies were going to win the day, that the whole western democratic world was going antiestablishment. and it's true, there's been a lot of, you know, politics has changed. there's no doubt about it. but in the west here in europe, france was going to be the big test. and even though the netherlands sort of put down the anti-immigrant policies of the far right there, even though austria did that as well, france was the big, big test, because it's the second biggest economy in europe, the sixth biggest economy in the world, and what france did was going to be considered incredibly, incredibly important. so, it's a marker, it's a test, it's a turning point, and that's why it's been so phenomenally under the microscope. and of course, president trump had thrown his support, as it was, via tweets and the other such, towards marine le pen, without so far as saying it. basically, people believed that