The Great Replacement

I've seen almost no network coverage of the yellow vest movement in France. It takes its name from the yellow vests French drivers are required to keep in their cars for emergency wear. The movement began on Facebook as a protest against a raise in the French gasoline tax, called for by the central government as part of a campaign against global warming. The yellow vest movement more or less pitted the white small-town and rural French against the rich, educated city dwelling elite, who use public transport or can afford gasoline at any price. 

If you don't live in a major city, you walk or drive a car in France. A gas tax can be punishing if you are poor. 

The movement quickly exploded into other resentments: a sense that country people are invisible and don't count; a belief that lower middle class white people are being replaced by immigrants; a claim that the replacement is a Jewish plot; a certainty that wealth in France has shifted lopsidedly in favor of the elite, while small-town white people have lost out. Gigantic megastores have replaced traditional mom and pop places. A way of life is vanishing.

A yellow vest cannot afford to move to Paris. The rent is too damn high.

The yellow vest movement has no leadership structure and doesn't want one. It has no political platform. It's an Internet phenomenon. No one speaks for it or represents it except for flash mobs that form to beat Jews or smash government offices. 

This movement is already fading, before we notice it, but we face something  related in the Trump voter. We have learned that there must be a better way to fight global warming than raising the gasoline tax.