A huge turnout is forecast by Gilets Jaunes social media for the anniversary of their first protest next weekend. But mass support for the Gilets Jaunes, both active and passive, has greatly deflated. It is also open to doubt - a doubt seldom expressed in the French media - whether the Gilets Jaunes of late 2019 are demographically or politically the same as the Gilets Jaunes of last winter and early spring. The figures quoted above do not only include the Gilets Jaunes arrested at their weekly Saturday “putsches”. That being said, I believe it is wrong to dismiss the Gilets Jaunes - the original Gilets Jaunes at any rate - as just a bunch of ignorant and conspiracy-loving provincial hicks.

Source: The Local November 12, 2019 08:13 UTC