The front-runner for the next French Presidential elections, according to current polls, Marine Le Pen has been sensationally barred from standing by a judge who was sentencing her in an embezzlement case. The verdict had expected to be less severe, and to be no block to her challenging the political establishment as the potential first far-right candidate to cross the finish line. But the State Prosecutor had requested the banning, and the judge went for it. Now, voices of condemnation are loudly raised - as you would expect - but the truth is nobody knows just how this shocking outcome will affect the result of the next election, and the tone of French politics in the mean time. And, of course, the edgy discourse between MAGA America and Europe, come to that.