Best of the Program | Guest: Simone Rodan-Benzaquen | 10/19/26

France is not just having a bad weekend. The country is in the middle of a coordinated attempt to bring down the state, and the pattern is being exported to the United States. That is the central argument of this episode of The Glenn Beck Program, which features an interview with Simone Rodan-Benzaquen, senior envoy for Europe at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, and a deep dive into leaked documents about left-wing organizing in America.

The French Crisis: More Than a Protest

What started as student demonstrations over school policy has been hijacked. Rodan-Benzaquen, speaking from Paris, is blunt: "What we are currently seeing has nothing to do with the school protests anymore." She describes an alliance of radical far-left groups, Antifa, Islamist forces, and external actors who are trying to destabilize the country. The timing is not accidental. France is facing a budget vote that is critical for its relationship with the European Central Bank. The country carries a 5.4% deficit and a debt load of 120% of GDP, making it the third most indebted nation in Europe. The reforms the government has attempted, including raising the retirement age, have failed.