Well done Emmanuel Macron, but now we’ll oppose you

PRIOR to the second round of the French presidential election, DiEM25 (the pan-European movement of democrats, mostly of the left, that I helped to found) promised Emmanuel Macron that we would “mobilise fully to help” him defeat Marine Le Pen.
This we did — incurring the wrath of many on the left — because maintaining “an equal distance between Macron and Le Pen,” we believed, was “inexcusable”.