“- - - but has since merged folks from the left and the right into a much broader anti-government movement.”
If this thing going on in France is considered a revolution, then the end result of the left and right merging to make it happen may not have a good ending. They need some prominent pro-France person similar to Trump, such as Le Pen, to take charge. A worse case scenario would be going full Islamic or Stalin style communism.
It a right wing protest that is being portrayed wrongly as a combination left-right coalition. A pure right wing revolt is too scary to the elites so they have to water it down.