Posted on 07/30/2013 9:30:21 AM PDT by Kaslin
Well, to be fair, even Jefferson may not have understood his own statements, considering he shamefully acted as a cheerleader for the September Massacres and the excesses of the French Revolution up to and at times even including the Reign of Terror, something even his fellow founding fathers were aghast at by that time.
But yeah, Ho Chi Minh would not have qualified as an American Minutemen. Can’t say for certainty on whether he’d qualify as a Jeffersonian, mostly because of the fact that Thomas Jefferson, alongside Tom Paine, acted as cheerleaders for the Jacobins and the other French Revolutionaries even when their crimes became very public and obvious to anyone with any sense of rationality. But certainly not American. The founding fathers would have been disgusted with Minh.
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