The Yellow Vests return to the streets as protagonists. Macron falters
Macron's presidency falters under the blows of protesters wearing the yellow vest. He falters in the face of the total lack of charisma of a president who hid in the moment of the crisis of the Republic. He reels from the unpredictability of the behavior of a man who founded a movement for change and who instead became the personified symbol of repression.
Macron's Republic is faltering, the Benalla Republic, of wild parties at the Elysée to the rhythm of rap, of total contempt for rural and working France.
Thousands of French people have been pouring into the streets every Saturday for two months, regardless of the tear gas, of truncheons, of rubber bullets, of the ten deaths among demonstrators killed by cars at roadblocks. If the revolt seemed to be dying out two weeks ago, il 5 January a crowd of 35000 people, extremely motivated, took to the streets, spreading beyond the Champs Elysees and causing a crisis for the police who were not prepared for such a scenario.
The French government is very weak, the president's "magic circle" is compromised by the resignation of key men who guaranteed Macron's rise, Macron's promises of fiscal aid have fallen on deaf ears.
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