I know everyone's sick of hearing about elections and referendums - the previous 10 years haven't been so positive for progressives, culminating as these votes did, in Brexit, Trump, Erdogan etc. so I totally get it if you don't want to hear about Marine Le Pen and the French elections.
But it's only two weeks until this analysis will stop, and we'll know what kind of future we're dealing with: The breakup of the European Union and certain end to all state-assisted refugee movement in the region, or a more stable EU with a severe but at least existent policy towards refugees and migrants.
Make no doubt about it - Marine Le Pen could still win. She secured a fifth of the first-round votes yesterday, against Emmanuel Macron's comparable percentage - their contest on the 7th May will indeed decide the fate of Europe. This time the political analysts aren't being complacent, and they recognise the full significance of the vote.
If Macron wins, he will hold together a status quo of neoliberal politics binding the entire continent together, and some socially progressive ideas mixed in with welfare. It's not perfect, but we've seen the alternative - and that's Le Pen, a far-right extremist who would bring chaos, illegality and oppression back into the mainstream. That's why Macron doesn't seem like such a terrible choice.
The danger is twofold here for progressives: Either through defeatism, they begin to see centrist politics as a total victory despite its many flaws; or, they give up centrism and opt for Le Pen, France's chaos candidate, out of sheer curiosity or frustration. I think it would be worse than Trump if Le Pen took power. Trump is chaotic and unpredictable, but that actually makes him relatively tame and ineffective. Le Pen on the other hand is at the forefront of a political movement that has roots in French Politics, and she was brought up to play the role of political saviour. She would fair well on the world stage.
So bear with the news for the next two weeks. It will be frustrating, but not nearly as damaging as the potential future which could emerge - the death of European progressivism.