'Demonic' Is Angelic

davidlimbaugh.com ^ | 06/09/11 | david limbaugh

[lancer256]

Ann Coulter's chilling two-chapter recapitulation of the French Revolution is worth well more than the price of her new book, "Demonic," but that's just a bonus.

Also priceless are Coulter's plethora of one-liner skewerings of the liberal mob, but I digress. What make this her best book are her incisive demonstration that the revolution was the mother of the many totalitarian "revolutions" it spawned in the name of the people, her dissection of the mob mentality that drove it, and her case against today's American liberals as exemplars of this mob mentality.

She first establishes her base line, defining the mob as "an irrational, childlike, often violent organism that derives its energy from the group. Intoxicated by messianic goals, the promise of instant gratification, and adrenaline-pumping exhortations, mobs create mayhem, chaos, and destruction, leaving a smoldering heap of wreckage for their leaders to climb to power." Sound familiar? It should, because "the Democratic Party is the party of the mob. ... Indeed, the very idea of a 'community organizer' is to stir up a mob for some political purpose." No truer words.

[Sherman Logan]

She details the leftists' ... reflexive opposition to democratic leaders and movements, from Chiang Kai-shek to the Nicaraguan Contras.

First time I've ever seen Chiang called a democrat. He actually worked closely with the commies till he decided they were a liability.

He may have been less bad than the commies, but he was no democrat.

[ottbmare]

I love this woman. She’s so brave. And so snotty. Wish I could be more like her in defense of our nation!

[Pharmboy]

In the DC area today, she was on Rush and Gallagher AT THE SAME TIME!! Ann with NO commercials (I could switch back and forth).

Awesome.

[ROLF of the HILL COUNTRY]

I haven't reads her book, but it's worth pointing out that our founders abhorred the idea of mob-rule; for the very reasons mentioned in the article. The term “democrat” was considered a high INSULT to those esteemed men!

[Ranald S. MacKenzie]

I’m about halfway through the book and Limbaugh’s right. The chapters on the French Revolution are riveting and eye-opening. Marie Antoinette comes off as quite a sympathetic figure, contrary to the “let them eat cake” image a lot of us have been taught.

[Louis Foxwell]

Obama has forced patriots to look long and hard at our national poitical environment. We are making the case for the final termination of liberal/progressive politics as the enemy of Constitutional government and federalism. We WILL end the tyranny of socialism. We will fulfill the promise given by our founders of a nation of free people who are committed to God and His natural law.

[Mach9]

Am waiting for the book.

“A Tale of Two Cities” reveals all one really needs to know about the morality of the French Revolution. The French mob, Rousseau’s human animals, the guillotine, the Reign of Terror and its triumverate. And Dickens never even got around to including its full circle back to despotism. One big problem was that Dickens was in the minority in England at the time. Most of the literati fell in love with the French propaganda without bothering to study what was actually happening. The French made the Russians look humane.