The yellow vests are not a conservative movement, they are a movement fed up with austerity politics and extra expenses placed on ordinary people, while the wea

The yellow vests are not a conservative movement, they are a movement fed up with austerity politics and extra expenses placed on ordinary people, while the wealthiest get tax cuts. Macron was attempting to make ordinary people pay for the extravagant resource use practiced by the wealthy and by industry. That is why people riot, because they (rightly) perceive those policies as taking from the working class and giving to the elite.