Also indicated by the yellow vest thing. He's not in France or French, he has no idea what that symbol means and yet he adopts it because, I imagine, it gives him some legitimacy and a feeling of being part of something powerful and threatening. IMO, he's just a sad weird little wanker, like those people who trot around in faux Hell's Angels jackets but would run a fucking mile if someone offered them some. There are lots of them about.
I think it was Hunter Thompson who wrote something about this, though I could be quite wrong, a lot of stuff, not all of it water, has passed under this bridge since reading it, but I believe he said something about people (men in his thing I think) needing to feel a little bit of dangerousness in themselves every day, with their ham and eggs at breakfast. He posited that that's why so many ostensibly "normal" clean-cut, observant, tie-wearers need to smack their wives in the privacy. I think there's something in it. Although I've noticed putting a bit of stick about is a pretty popular hobby for the givers, regardless of whether they even possess a tie.
