'PREDICTABLE': Mass protests have been a long time coming for France, expert says

. BACK TO YOU. >> Martha: ON THE STREETS IN. PARIS WHERE WE SEE SOME ELEMENTS. BEING DEPLOYED TO CALM THOSE. PROTESTERS DOWN. WE WILL CONTINUE TO CHECK IN AS. WE GET MORE OF THE CHAOS. UNFOLDING THERE. LET'S BRING IN JONATHAN TURLEY. CONSTITUTIONAL ATTORNEY AND. GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY LAW. PROFESSOR AND FOX NEWS. CONTRIBUTOR. GREAT TO HAVE YOU WITH US. A LOT OF ELEMENTS THAT ARE. LIKELY CONTRIBUTING TO THIS. SITUATION. WHAT'S YOUR TAKE ON IT OVERALL?

>> IT'S IRONIC THAT FRANCE IS. APPROACHING ITS OWN 250TH. ANNIVERSARY BUT THAT ANNIVERSARY. IS OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION. WHICH BECAME KNOWN AS THE. TERROR. I TALK ABOUT THAT REVOLUTION IN. MY RECENT BOOK AS WELL AS THE. CONTEMPORARY CONDITIONS IN. FRANCE. SOME OF THOSE CONDITIONS ARE. GETTING INCREASINGLY ACUTE. FRANCE HAS NEVER BEEN A. PROMISING ENVIRONMENT FOR. BUSINESSES. THEY WENT THROUGH A SOCIALIST.

DESTROYING THEIR ECONOMY FORCING. BUSINESSES OUT AND THEY'VE NEVER. REALLY RECOVERED FROM THAT. THEY ARE A SOCIAL WELFARE STATE. AND THEY SPEND A HUGE AMOUNT OF. MONEY. THEY HAVE LIMITED REVENUES. COMING IN AND A MASSIVE. IMMIGRATION PROBLEM THAT IS. SETTLING ON TOP OF THIS. THE RESULT IS FEW RESOURCES. THE RESULT IS THAT THESE. PROGRAMS ARE BEGINNING TO. RATCHET DOWN IN TERMS OF WHAT. THEY CAN SUPPLY TO THE. POPULATION SO THIS IS ALL A.

PREDICTABLE PATTERN. THE SAME PATTERN THAT LED THE. JACOBINS TO RISE 250 YEARS AGO. AND YOU ARE SEEING NEW JACOBINS, VERY RADICAL LEFT GROUPS THAT. ARE USING THIS TO GET TO THE. STREETS AND TRYING TO CREATE. THIS VIOLENCE. >> Martha: IT WILL BE. INTERESTING TO SEE WHAT THE. IMPACT IS ON THE SPRING. ELECTION. THEY HAVE A PRESIDENTIAL. ELECTION COMING UP. EMMANUEL MACRON IS TERM LIMITED. AND THESE ARE THE THREE IN THE. MIX AND MORE PROMINENT ALTHOUGH. THE LIST OF CANDIDATES HAS NOT. BEEN NAILED DOWN QUITE YET.

DO YOU THINK THAT THIS HELPS. MARINE LE PEN, FOR EXAMPLE, THE. MORE CONSERVATIVE CANDIDATE. BECAUSE A LOT OF THIS IS. UNDERPINNED IN THE BOATS THAT. HAVE BEEN COMING AND LANDING IN. FRANCE AND THE MASS MIGRATION. THAT WE HAVE SEEN THERE OVER THE. LAST TWO DECADES REALLY. >> Reporter: I THINK IT DOES. THERE ARE OTHER PROTESTS FOCUSED. ON THIS MASSIVE INFLUX ON. IMMIGRATION AND HOW IT'S PUSHING.

THE COUNTRY TO THE BREAKING. POINT IN TERMS OF SOCIAL. PROGRAMS. THEY HAVE REALLY DONE EVERYTHING. THAT THEY COULD TO KEEP HER OUT. OF OFFICE AND THIS HAS BEEN. GOING ON FOR YEARS. CHARGES AND JUDICIAL BLOCKS AND. SHE HAS STAYED FIRM THERE AND I. THINK THAT THERE ARE A LOT OF. PEOPLE IN FRANCE THAT NOW FEEL. THAT HER MESSAGE IS RESONATING, THAT THEY REALLY HAVE TO TAKE. EXTREME MEASURES INCLUDING. REDUCTION OF THE GOVERNMENT AND. REDUCTION OF IMMIGRATION. YOU ARE SEEING THAT MESSAGE TAKE.

HOLD IN OTHER EUROPEAN. COUNTRIES. THIS IS CREATING TENSION NOT. JUST WITH THE GOVERNMENT OF. MACRON BUT TENSION WITH THE E.U. AND SO FRANCE IS VERY MUCH IN. THE E.U. ORBIT OBVIOUSLY AND A. LOT OF THESE POLICIES ARE COMING. FROM BRUSSELS AND NOT JUST PARIS. SO WE ARE SEEING THE STAGES HERE. OF A VERY ACUTE DIVISION THAT IS. FORMING IN EUROPE AND IT'S. GETTING VIOLENT IN THE STREETS. OF PARIS. >> Martha: RECENTLY AN.

ARRANGEMENT BETWEEN THE U.K. AND. FRANCE THAT BOATS WOULD BE. ALLOWED TO LEAVE THE COASTLINE. IN FRANCE AND GO TO THE U.K. NOW THE U.K. IS LOCKING DOWN. THAT AND SAYING WE ARE NOT GOING. TO HONOR THAT AGREEMENT ANY. MORE. THOSE WHO CAME INTO FRANCE HAVE. TO STAY THERE SO YOU REALLY HAVE. A SIMMERING POT THAT IS BREWING. HERE. WE'VE SEEN THESE DEMONSTRATIONS. BEFORE AND THEY HAVE BEEN. QUELLED BUT WHO KNOWS WHERE THE. BREAKING POINT IS. WHAT IS THE COMPARISON QUICKLY, IF YOU CAN TO THE SOCIALIST. MOVEMENT THAT WE ARE SEEING HERE. IN THE UNITED STATES. >> I THINK THAT IS REALLY THE.

CAUTIONARY TALE FOR AMERICANS, WHAT YOU ARE SEEING UNFOLDING IN. THE STREETS OF FRANCE COULD BE. EASILY OUR FUTURE. THE DSA IS ARGUING FOR MANY OF. THE POLICIES OF THE EXTREME LEFT. IN FRANCE AND INDEED I WROTE. ABOUT THIS IN THE BOOK, THEY ARE. ASKING FOR MANY A THINGS THAT. COME OUT OF THE FRENCH. REVOLUTION, UNICAMERALISM, ALL. OF THOSE THINGS CAME FROM THE. JACOBINS. SO THIS COULD BE OUR FUTURE. UNLESS WE ARE AWFULLY CAREFUL.

>> Marth.