Hollande: the first European casualty of the American revolution, by Greg Sheridan.

Francois Hollande is Donald Trump’s first big casualty in ­Europe.

The bland French President, who only a few days ago looked every inch his country’s Hillary Clinton, has made the shock ­announcement that he will not seek re-election.

Trump-style populist insurrection is roiling Europe as strongly as it roiled the US. Europe’s professional political class is under as widespread and sustained attack from the continent’s own populists as the American political class has been from the Trumpers.

Hollande is the first president of France’s fifth republic not to seek re-election.

hat-tip Stephen Neil