Don’t know if she mentions it, but the “Great Fear” of 1789 made the Revolution inevitable.
I’m listening now, she talks about a “largely stable” economy and overall “contentment.” But that was not the case in the years leading up to the Revolution. Bad harvests for some years (possibly due to a volcano in Iceland) had the people terrified by 1788. The people started to suspect the government was deliberately making things worse — there was talk of a “famine plot.”
Recommended reading: Great Fear of 1789 by Georges Lefebvre. There’s a paperback edition, English translation. I have one, not very old, so it must be on amazon, and probably a free e-book on google.
The solution was one the Democrats would propose. Raise taxes on everyone but the elite. Finally they couldn't take it anymore and they cut off Louis's head.
Napoleon Bonaparte summed up the root causes of the revolution this way and I say it is the best way: The people no longer had anything to eat but the rich.
In today's America, many of the rich elite are liberal. When they raise our taxes they can take it easily by passing the buck. Napoleon's words should serve as warning especially to the golden state leftists.