You know that meme on social media,
it always has captions and it goes how it started and how it's going.
That's basically France right now.
So it starts in 2017.
Emmanuel Macron has just won a landslide election.
He emerges alone in front of the Louvre in Paris,
the European Anthem Ode to Joy is playing.
He steps forward alone towards his huge crowd
and is framed as a salvation or figure.
Well, fast forward less than 10 years,
and the images of parts of France burning are beamed around the world.
Macron is a lame duck leader with just a few months left in office.
And people aren't just taking to the streets in France.
Across Italy, Albania, Portugal, and beyond
European cities look like they are in turmoil
and the US president has seized on that as evidence of a continent,
even a civilization, on the decline.
Donald Trump says immigration is to blame, but is it?
Many protesters are saying they're on the street
because life is too expensive, and they want a better education.