I've gone through the Wikipedia entry for Emmanuel Macron, and selected the most important parts. "Born in Amiens, he is the son of Françoise Macron (née Noguès), a physician, and Jean-Michel Macron, professor of neurology at the University of Picardy."

"Although raised in a non-religious family, Macron was baptized a Roman Catholic by his own request at age 12".

"His parents sent him off to Paris due to their alarm at the bond he had formed with Brigitte Auzière, a married teacher with three children at Jésuites de la Providence, who later became his wife. In Paris, he failed to gain entry to the École normale supérieure twice."

"Macron did not perform national service because he was pursuing his graduate studies." "After graduating from ENA in 2004, Macron became an Inspector in the Inspection générale des finances (IGF), a branch of the Finance Ministry."

"In 2008, Macron paid €50,000 to buy himself out of his government contract. He then became an investment banker in a highly-paid position at Rothschild & Cie Banque."

"Macron was appointed as managing director and put in charge of Nestlé's acquisition of one of Pfizer's largest subsidiaries based around baby drinks. His share of the fees on this €9 billion deal made Macron a millionaire."

"Macron had been a member of the Socialist Party since he was 24 but he only renewed his subscription to the party from 2006 to 2009. In 2007, Macron attempted to run for a seat in the National Assembly in Picardy under the Socialist Party label in the 2007 legislative elections,

"however, his application was declined. Macron met François Hollande through Jean-Pierre Jouyet in 2006 and joined his staff in 2010." "On 15 May 2012, Macron became the deputy secretary general of the Élysée, a senior role in President François Hollande's staff."

"During the summer of 2012, Macron put forward a proposal that would increase the 35 hour work week to 37 hours until 2014. He also tried to hold back the large tax increases on the highest earners that were planned by the government. Hollande refused Macron's proposals."

"Macron was one of the deciding voices on not regulating the salaries of CEO's. On 10 June 2014, it was announced that Macron had resigned from his role and was replaced by Laurence Boone.

"Reasons for his departure were that he was disappointed to not be included in the first Government of Manuel Valls and also frustrated by his lack of influence in the reforms proposed by the government."

"Manuel Valls attempted to appoint Macron as the Budget Minister but François Hollande rejected the idea due to Macron never being elected before. He was appointed as the Minister of Economy and Industry in the second Valls Cabinet on 26 August 2014, replacing Arnaud Montebourg."

"As Minister of the Economy, Macron was at the forefront of pushing through business-friendly reforms. On 17 February 2015, prime minister Manuel Valls pushed Macron's signature law package through a reluctant parliament using the special 49.3 procedure."

"In August 2015, Macron said that he was no longer a member of the Socialist Party and was an independent."

"Amid tensions and deterioration of relations with the current government, Macron founded an independent political party, En marche, in Amiens on 6 April 2016[...] that gathered huge media coverage when it was first established".

"In June 2016, support for Macron and his movement, En marche, began to grow in the media with L'Express, Les Echos, Le 1 and L'Opinion beginning to voice public support for Macron.

"Following several controversies surrounding trade unionists and their protests, major newspapers began to run stories about Macron and En marche on their front page with mainly positive press."

"Macron's campaign, headed by French economist Sophie Ferracci, announced in December 2016 that it had raised €3.7 million in donations without public funding (as En marche was not a registered political party). This was three times the budget of then-front runner Alain Juppé.

"Macron came under criticism from several individuals, including Benoît Hamon who requested Macron reveal a list of his donors accusing him of conflicts of interest due to Macron's past at Rothschilds. Macron replied to this, calling Hamon's behavior 'demagogic.'

"It was later reported by journalists Marion L'Hour and Frédéric Says that Macron had spent €120,000 on setting up dinners and meetings with various personalities within the media and in French popular culture while he was minister."

"Macron's campaign enjoyed considerable coverage from the media. Mediapart reported that Macron had over fifty magazine covers dedicated purely to him compared to Melenchon's 'handful' despite similar followings online and both having large momentum during the campaign.

"Macron has been consistently labelled [...] as the 'media candidate' and has been viewed as such in opinion polls. He is friends with the owners of Le Monde and Claude Perdiel the former owner of Nouvel Observateur.

"Many observers have compared Macron's campaign to a product being sold due to Maurice Lévy, a former CEO using marketing tactics to try to advance Macron's presidential ambitions. The magazine Marianne has reported that BFMTV, whose owner is Patrick Drahi,

"has broadcast more coverage of Macron than all four main candidates combined". "Macron attracted criticism for the time taken to spell out a formal program during his campaign; despite declaring in November, he had still not released a complete set of proposals by February,

"attracting both attacks from critics and concern among allies and supporters. He eventually laid out his 150-page formal program on 2 March, publishing it online and discussing it at a marathon press conference that day."

He placed first in the first round of the French presidential election, and easily beat the right-wing populist candidate Marine Le Pen in the run-off.

And so this ambitious, arrogant, inherently unattractive, and otherwise unremarkable bourgeois, the candidate, the creature, of finance capital, sold through their ownership of the media to the French public, became president, governing exactly as you would expect.