If you think the French Revolution is an example of populism, then forget it. And I never said that the aristocrats were never killed during the French Revolution. Obviously, there were several that were killed, but going by the statistical figures, only 8% were killed by the Guillotine, while 30% were actually those of the Peasant class, and last I checked, 30% is MORE than 8%, and thus would make very clear that if anything the common people suffered even MORE than the aristocracy/elites.
Besides, the French Revolution targeted the Vendee for extermination, which is pretty much the epitome of the “common people” they claimed to be representing, all because they kept their faith in king and god (and ironically, the Vendee were far closer to the American Minutemen than the actual French Revolutionaries were). Heck, the French Revolution was ALSO for open borders as well, considering that part of the reason they created their Grand Army of the Republic was specifically to EXPORT the French Revolution, and most of the heads of that revolution outright HATED the concept of national sovereignty. Heck, the French Revolution was what inspired Marx and Lenin, both really huge globalists. So, no, if anything, the French Revolution is closer to globalist crap more than the Inquisition was. And by your logic, God’s also against populism and the common people as well due to outright incinerating him and his followers when he dared to even suggest allowing for populism: https://www.conservativenewsandviews.com/2020/06/18/clergy/korah-democracy-divine-aristocracy-israel/
The French Revolution is widely acknowledged to have been a populist movement. The aristocracy was globalist, the common people got sick and tired of all the corruption, theft, and incompetence.
“The People, No: A brief history of anti-populism” by Thomas Frank looks like it addresses the problem we have here in populism being defined as a xenophobic movement of anti-science hayseeds by the elites who are trying to hang onto power by defining populism as David Duke rather than Martin Luther King. I feel guilty about buying yet another book when there are so many others I have to read, but it’s certainly timely.