The article shows how a typically neo-liberal government like President Macron’s reacted to the Yellow Vests social revolt. Analyzing the different tactics used, distinguishing between “secondary tactics” and “main tactics”, the text shows that it is not as easy as one might think to oppose a neoliberalism that respects the forms of political liberalism and an authoritarian and repressive neoliberalism. Without falling into the confusion, it appears that all forms of neoliberalism have in common that they follow a trajectory, albeit more or less rapid and clear-cut, of exit from democracy.