Fractured France: Diesel tax protests expose Macron's Achilles' heel
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Hunched over a burning oil drum on a traffic island, protesters in yellow vests line up to decry France’s punishing fuel taxes and spiraling living costs, blaming a president who they see as detached from the everyday struggles of life outside the city.