Ah, yeah, just because some leftist scholars claim it’s for the people doesn’t mean it’s truly populist. Especially when you consider that those same “populists” tried to outright commit genocide against the Vendee simply because they retained loyalty to the Crown and more importantly to God, despite Vendee literally being the embodiment of populism. People also said the Cuban Revolution, Mao’s Revolution, and Lenin’s Revolution were also populist by nature. Guess what, those were complete disasters with the ACTUAL people, not demagogue Marxists, suffering immensely from said “revolutions.”
And most of those so-called “populists” in the Jacobins probably used corruption as an excuse to cause carnage that they were planning anyways. In fact, John Adams even said they were monsters, and accurately pinned them as ultimately not being in france’s best interests, as did Alexander Hamilton and even George Washington. And no, the Jacobins were the ones who were globalists. Or have you forgotten that their first act with the French Army was an attempt to export the Revolution abroad and force the world to embrace “Liberty, Equality, and Brotherhood.” That’s even part of the reason why Vendee refused and got slaughtered by them. And Voltaire and Diderot ALSO were globalists, wanted to destroy Christianity throughout the World, and even had fellow conspirators in Prussia via Frederick the Great.
You said: “ If you think the French Revolution is an example of populism, then forget it.”
I said: “ The French Revolution is widely regarded as having been a populist movement.”
So this is me forgetting it rather than entering a very overthought space with you to try to get you to see the forest for the trees.