Where I have to revise my priors is that just having a massive state doesn’t solve the problem. Riots in Italy too!

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Anecdotally I would say that the burning and pillaging in and around the large, peaceful protests (I marched) was significant, but it's too soon to know how big it was quantitatively. It's certainly spectacular and the looming presidential election has made the context especially explosive.

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Things were starting to get like this during the yellow vest movement and, had it not been for the Covid lockdowns, I think we would have seen something similar. What's new this time is the many weeks of high school/uni mobilization that preceded the events of Saturday. Many young people are active.

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Just like almost everywhere else, it’s a system that works beautifully for a small number of people and leaves large numbers on the edge. And it’s all just too obvious to pass without some kind of reaction

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Hanno Lustig (from the other side) had an interesting Substack showing how education spending is declining in France as pensions spending is going up…

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