We can’t know what was going on between Emanuel and Brigitte Macron on the plane, except it didn’t look like they were “relaxing” and “having a laugh,” as the Élysée maintains. But it takes some serious cool under fire and performative skill to take a face shove from your spouse in full view of the cameras and then immediately smile and wave and offer her your arm (duly rejected) as if nothing happened. This is political talent at the highest level — not in the highest cause, to be sure, but deserving of respect all the same.