The average French person is tired of all the terrorist attacks and riots. Without discounting that migration does cause issues, the French are also often quite racist against their Muslim countrymen. They’ll assume it’ll primarily be used to target them.

I feel sorry for the normal French people. Realistically, the French get a choice in the next election. They’ll likely get to choose between:

• Macron’s successor: a neo-liberal who wants to expand the surveillance state and further erode hard fought for rights.
• Le Pen’s successor: an actual fascist running for a party with proven financial ties to Russia, who’ll be even more authoritarian and erode French people’s rights even further, and significantly weaken NATO resolve.