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Now that France’s elections are over, the bien-pensant on both sides of the Atlantic are breathing a sigh of relief. After the first round on June 30, the National Rally party threatened to win a parliamentary plurality, but eventually came in third behind a left-wing coalition and President Emmanuel Macron’s centrist Renaissance party. Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk tweeted: “In Paris enthusiasm, in Moscow disappointment, in Kyiv relief. Enough to be happy in Warsaw.��

Yet for all the happy talk about the center holding and the antifascists winning, the election results are troubling. Antisemitism gained a new respectability in the French political center, and anti-Americanism is ascendant. Europeans loudly question U.S. seriousness and resilience, both fearing abandonment and hoping that American political turmoil will drive Europe to unify and become a great power. American leaders need to think hard about what happens if Europe implodes.