“Mr President, how could you put us in this situation? How could you put us in this chaos?” an elderly woman asked Emmanuel Macron in Brittany on June 18th. Macron defended himself: “In all good conscience I tell you, there was no other solution.” If he had not dissolved the French National Assembly on June 9th, Macron added, “It would have been bedlam.” But two weeks later, it looks like France is heading for bedlam. Every political grouping except Marine Le Pen’s extreme right National Rally (RN) — whose European election victory prompted Macron’s decision — has splintered. As the...