Leftist fire-starters and immigrants have pushed another French republic to the edge: ‘Unholy alliance’

The French are no strangers to protests that go sideways. After all, the nation is on its fifth republic since 1792.

Nevertheless, the rally on Saturday planned by the General Confederation of Labor and various other leftist outfits — a rally that quickly devolved into an orgy of destruction — proved to be too much for the French authorities to handle.

‘There’s a lot of tinder for the flame.’

Luke Foster, assistant professor of government at Hillsdale College, provided Blaze News with insights into what has changed and what France is up against.

Throughout the West but perhaps most acutely in France, the old left that was historically focused on issues affecting the working class has increasingly been displaced by the “new left, which is much more about sexual