What Trump doesn't appear to realize (as he was tweeting that the French were chanting for him today), is that before too long, this will be what the streets in the US look like if the legislature doesn't protect Mueller/get Trump out.
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2-I believe that this is what we called 'rioting in the streets' back in the 60s..."This tax hike seemed to the group, which gathered followers mostly through social media, the last insult of metropolitan Paris to rural France, and they began protesting and blockading highways
3-"across the country. Last week, the protests reached Paris, where the gilets jaunes—or, by most reports, members of the largely rural group aided by extreme leftists and even more extreme rightists, both prepped for street battle—rioted on the Champs Élysées, vandalized the
4-"Arc de Triomphe, and broke into stores, creating a crisis of a kind that has brought down or impeded the progress of French governments continuously throughout the postwar era. Macron, having positioned himself as the anti-Trump, becomes a favorite target of American Trumpism.
5-**"Trump himself, with his usual grace, has taken the side of the gilets jaunes against green energy, though apparently because he thought they were endorsing him."**
6-"...We are once again in the presence of a progressive insistence that all popular movements, no matter how reactionary their rhetoric or obnoxious their allies, are really left movements that have yet to discover their true nature. Feelings of exclusion and dispossession
7-"doubtless exist throughout France, as they do in this country, but it also must be said that the pet social programs of Bernie Sanders progressives here—universal health care, paid maternity leave, and government subvented higher education—are already in place there...We live
8-"in a time, as David Bennun wrote last week in the Guardian, when what Americans call liberal institutions, and the French call republican ones, have been in place for so long that people assume that they are so hardy, and somehow so natural, that they can be perpetuated even
9-"as the protections they offer come under assault by authoritarian extremists—some in power, some seeking it. In truth, republican institutions are frighteningly fragile, and, as we’re already seeing in Eastern Europe, can collapse more rapidly than one would have thought
10-"possible. There is no substitute for the hard work of republican, or democratic, government. Those of us among the governed need to recall this; the governing need to keep it in mind even more. Even a little modest expertise might help." TNY, 12/6/18
11-Trump needs to watch what he says about the French protests. Truly, this is an excellent article and posits very well, that we are not that far from action like this here. And it won't be in support of him. Not at all. #YellowJackets
