Victor Davis Hanson points out (in not quite so many words) that in politics, there’s nothing new under the sun — most especially since the French Revolution, that is — and that the “Democrat Party” of today should just be honest about it and rename themselves the Jacobin Party.
Why?
Jacobinism aims to divide the nation arbitrarily between the noble oppressed and the toxic oppressors. (Sound familiar?)
And VDH then goes on to list the offenders and offences:
BLM (actually, it’s Antifa, the only omission he makes), biological men competing in women’s sports, critical legal theory normalizing cashless bail, race-based reparations, violent felons arrested and back on the street hours later, radical abortion on demand until birth, attacks on the concept of the cultural “melting pot” and opposition to organized Christianity.
Read the whole article for the full catalogue.
Here’s the question to ponder. Never mind what they might say; which is the political party in the U.S. that actively supports terrorism? And let’s be clear by what we mean by “terrorism”: threatening assassination, supporting assassinations or calling for the same, beating up political opponents, calling for violence against those who refuse to support their policies (e.g. Supreme Court justices), using “grassroots” street protests to cow and intimidate opposition… the list goes on and on.
Yup: that list belongs to the modern-day Jacobins — just as it was back in the late eighteenth century. They would make history repeat itself, if they could. And never forget that the term “Reign of Terror” was also coined during the French Revolution, by the Jacobins. Ipse dixit.