[Williams]

They’ve got to be kidding. Exhibit one on why those scum should be arrested or deported.
Isn’t this a real insurrection?
And Macon should fail to honor the vote because of these criminals?
I was just in Paris the were sending a lot of gendarmes around.
Obviously, if a new government is voted in, the police should crush the rioters.

[Rockingham]

The French can be ruthless when they decide that they have had enough internal disorder. In the early 1960s, after the Algerian debacle, de Gaulle had the French police and military crush a demonstration by militant Algerian emigres wanting more benefits and privileges. Censorship suppressed the news coverage, but there were said to be scores of dead and hundreds of injured Algerian emigres.

I can imagine Macron letting things get bloody for a while, then forcibly suppressing the Left and calling for a government of national unity. The result could be that Bardella and the Right attain office but are restricted by the terms of their national coalition from governing as they have promised. That would weaken their appeal considerably.