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“The French “yellow jackets” rallied in the streets but not in the ballot box.” Le Figaro posted after the 2019 European elections. “The two lists from the social contestation movement, which has provoked the biggest crisis of Emmanuel Macron’s five-year term, collected less than 1% of the votes in the European elections on Sunday, May 26.” The failure of the French yellow jackets to penetrate European institutions is the class of contemporary failures that forms the starting point of Dimitri...