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.
This has been about 5-ish years ago but I listened to Abigail Shrier somewhere. She was discussing some tranny thing or another, and the vitriol the discussion engendered.
But she made a statement about how shocking it was, to confront basically a mob, that was so certain of their own rectitude, that any contra evidence, served not to correct, or inform, but to enrage.
This was when the little shits were just smashing up campuses, they hadn’t started assassinating the Charlie Kirks out there yet.
I’m pretty committed to my points of view, but there’s always that nagging “Remember thou art Mortal” voice in the back of my head, that reminds me I could be wrong. Its the thing that keeps me from building bombs in my basement.
These indoctrinated little fucks have been taught to never listen to that, even as a possibility.
“Remember thou art Mortal”
Exactly. The feral turds have largely gotten away with no consequences for their uncivil and often vicious behavior. Yesterday some punk in a mass protest here stepped into the street and got mowed down by a car he was going to block. We need more of that. Harsh and immediate physical, financial and legal consequences for those infantile bastards.
I don’t know how much weight to put behind this. But these little twats and their enablers, might sense they are losing the game, and getting progressively (pun intended) shriller and more brittle, as they see the conversation slipping away.
Its a possibility to be hoped for.
I don’t know just how much faith we can put in that result. They don’t seem to be the sort who can give up, go home, and live quietly ever after. If they had to give up the thrill of the street riot, they might drop dead. I think the more likely result will be more Englebert Dollfuss’s and Giacomo Matteoti’s. Clearly, they want anyone opposed to their goals and tactics to be too afraid to even leave their homes so they can easily be found, let alone speak to anyone that they trust to say they are opposed to the state.
Victor has been one of my daily reads for some time. Beginning to think I will have to show some patience soon. That or start carrying a dirt shovel in the truck.