So far only a small minority have protested against their pandemic and vaccine mandates. And if the masses rise up in violent protests the mobs will only be destroying their own infrastructure. The elites will be safe in their guarded compounds.

Everything they do is to consolidate power and erode the will of independent people. Macron doesn't care if people are happy, mad, starved, fat, hot or cold. They'll do whatever it takes to get more power over people with less accountability. Kicking farmers off their land flexes their ability to take peoples land and livelihood, while simultaneously it forces regular people to be more dependent on the government to provide them the most basic things necessary for survival. We get to caught up in anticipating public reaction, when in reality the people in charge dont give care how we react at all. The only thing they dont want is normal people reacting happily to the killing of their low level enforcers. If that kind of zeitgeist gets loose in modern society, the gig will be up really quickly for them.