Les gens manifestent. Le pouvoir s’en fout. Iels occupent idem. Iels bloquent. Tout pareil. Iels cassent et pillent des magasins. Vous hurlez ? Vous préféreriez qu’au lieu de brûler votre voiture, iels fassent comme la police et s’en prennent aux personnes ? Qu’iels vous pendent à la lanterne ?

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“The French do like to protest, why?” Observers outside France struggle to understand the politics of protests in France. This is because very few countries have codified the practice and integrated it as a legitimate means of exercising political power as much as France has.

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But by and large, police and organizers cooperated and violence was contained and usually the result of individual action. During the 1995 demonstrations against the Juppé government, with 2 million participants, very few people were hurt or arrested (fewer than 20 vs 8000 arrests this month).

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Les fascistes à la recherche de leur incendie du Reichstag.

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Thomas Chatterton Williams, one of the least interesting commentators of the era, has given an interview to Le Monde. I don't mind that he lives in Paris, but I would rather he kept his boring ideas for the Atlantic. We have enough anti-woke essayists here as it is.

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