The Left in Action: “It’s Either Us or Them” — French Far-Left Mayor Calls for Insurrection if Conservatives Win
Democracy is a wonderful thing, until the Left loses. Then the mask slips, revealing raw power, intolerance, and open contempt for the will of the people.
In Saint-Denis, one of France's most heavily migrant and multicultural suburbs north of Paris, far-Left La France Insoumise mayor Bally Bagayoko has made the position brutally clear. Should the National Rally (RN), the conservative anti-mass migration party, win the 2027 presidential election, the result will possess no "popular legitimacy." His proposed response is a "popular insurrection." "It's either us or them," he declared in a recent interview.
This is not the rant of a fringe activist shouting on the street. It comes from an elected mayor, an official representative of the French Republic, openly preparing his followers to reject the outcome of a democratic election.
Bagayoko did not stop there. He attacked President Macron, mainstream media, and even moderate elements of the Left. He removed Macron's official portrait from his office, turning it upside down or shoving it aside until a far-Left president assumes power. Any conservative victory is framed as an existential threat that demands street action, invoking the storming of the Bastille or the Yellow Vests,conveniently forgetting how fiercely the Left opposed the Yellow Vests when they could not control them.
This reveals the classic pattern of modern Leftist logic across the West: when they win, it is "sacred democracy, respect the results." When they lose, the voters are wrong, racist, or manipulated, and it is time for resistance, disruption, and insurrection. We have seen the same double standard repeatedly. In the United States, January 6 was branded an "insurrection," while months of BLM and Antifa riots, campus occupations, and threats of violence after Trump's victories were dismissed as "mostly peaceful protests." In France the pattern repeats, with LFI and its allies thriving on polarisation while accusing everyone else of extremism.
Saint-Denis itself stands as a warning of where this leads. It is a stark symbol of France's failed multiculturalism experiment, marked by high crime, parallel societies, no-go zones, and deep alienation. Bagayoko's rhetoric resonates there because he speaks the language of grievance, identity politics, and anti-Western resentment. He refers to his city as "la ville de Noirs" (the city of Blacks) and interprets French history solely through the lens of colonial guilt and oppression. Elected with only a tiny fraction of eligible voters, around 13,500 votes out of 64,000 registered, he now delegitimises future democratic outcomes in advance.
This is not an isolated outburst. From French banlieues to British grooming gang cover-ups, Swedish no-go zones, and American campus radicals chanting for "global intifada," the radical Left has imported and empowered constituencies that often reject integration and core Western norms. When voters push back by electing conservatives, the response is rarely reflection. It is escalation: calls for insurrection, lawfare, media hysteria, and street violence.
The irony is thick. These are the very voices that lecture endlessly about "threats to democracy." Yet here is a sitting mayor openly undermining elections before they occur and laying the psychological groundwork for civil conflict. France appears to be sleepwalking toward serious trouble. The suburbs are arming themselves with resentment and parallel power structures, while much of the political class either dithers or actively fuels the divide. Bagayoko is not a lone voice, he represents the public face of what many fear is a slow-building cold, and potentially hot, civil war.
Democracy requires the mature acceptance that sometimes the other side wins. Large parts of the modern Left no longer seem willing to extend that principle. They treat politics as total war: deplatform, censor, investigate, intimidate, and when all else fails, take to the streets or threaten insurrection. Voters across Europe and beyond are noticing. The rise of parties like France's RN, Italy's Brothers of Italy, and similar movements elsewhere are not "far-Right extremism." It is a rational immune response to open borders, cultural erosion, and elites who consistently side with outsiders over their own citizens.
Bagayoko's outburst should serve as a wake-up call. When the Left declares "It's either us or them," we should take them at their word. The real question is whether the rest of society will summon the courage to choose national survival over continued suicidal tolerance.
