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Dear conservatives: France’s ‘yellow jacket’ protesters are not our friends

By Tom Rogan
Published December 3, 2018 9:15pm ET
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Dear conservatives: France’s ‘yellow jacket’ protesters are not our friends
A police car burns after clashes between police and protesters, in Marseille, southern France, Saturday, Dec. 1, 2018, demonstrating against what they claim were dilapidated residential buildings that collapsed Monday Nov. 5, killing eight people. French authorities on Saturday deployed some thousands of police on Paris' Champs-Elysees avenue to try to contain protests by people angry over rising taxes and President Emmanuel Macron's government. | (AP Photo/Claude Paris)

The so-called “yellow jacket” protesters setting Paris alight do not deserve conservative support. They deserve only our desire for their defeat.

Some U.S. conservative commentators disagree with that assessment. Buck Sexton, for example, argues:

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