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The Impending Thermidor Reaction in Jacobin America
American Greatness ^ | 7 May, 2023 | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 05/08/2023 4:47:39 AM PDT by MtnClimber

At peak woke, our reign of terror is beginning to lose momentum because its continuation would destroy all the work of 247 years of American progress and sacrifice.

The decade-long French Revolution that broke out in 1789 soon devolved into far more than removing the monarchy, as it became antithetical to the earlier American precedent. American notions of liberty and freedom were seen as far too narrow, given the state, if only all-powerful and all-wise, could mandate “equality” and force “fraternity” among its subjects.

Each cycle of French revolutionary fervor soon became more radicalized and cannibalistic—until it reached its logical ends of violent absurdity.

Originally, the idea of curbing the power of a Bourbon king through a parliamentary republic became lethally counter-revolutionary.

Soon even attacks on the Catholic Church and the abolition of the monarchy entirely were deemed insufficient. The king himself and his consorts had to be beheaded. Monasteries and churches were to be ransacked, and priests exiled or lynched.

The sometimes moderate Girondins, who favored constitutional government, were mostly executed by their former friends among the Montagnards. In turn, the latter were soon deemed too conservative for the emerging crazy Jacobins. So they, too, had to be decapitated. The ensuing year-long reign of terror guillotined thousands of innocents, deemed guilty of being guilty of something.

By 1793, the revolution had turned nihilist and suicidal. The foundational date of France was recalibrated (not as 1619 but) as 1789—or “year one.”

Jacobins sought to wipe out religion, both materially and spiritually. They replaced God, first, with the atheistic “Cult of Reason” and then a stranger still “Cult of the Supreme Being”—a dreamed-up, living, humanistic god that only the murderous Robespierre could fully envision, but eerily similar to our own Green New Deal deity.

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TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: communism; leftism; vdh; victordavishanson; woke
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To: PIF
"If something cannot go on forever, it will stop."

Stein's Law - 1986.

Not to be confused with Fudd's Law.

21 posted on 05/08/2023 6:14:20 AM PDT by billorites (freepo ergo sum)
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To: MtnClimber
Ping! Out to the Victor Davis Hanson list

The events of the French (socialist) revolution sound eerily like our present day reality ...

The months of the year themselves were renamed, the days of the week renumbered and relabeled. Statues were toppled, first at night, later in shameless daylight. Place names were erased and renamed. The original revolutionary heroes were not to be mentioned; their uncouth successors deified. Money was printed to “spread the wealth”—until it was worthless.

Finally, what could not go on, did not go on, as French society unraveled. Then the so-called Thermidors put an end to the madness of the Robespierre brothers and their sidekick, the 26-year-old Saint-Just, and did to them what they had done to thousands.

So, the world became topsy-turvy. Throwing a firebomb into a police-occupied patrol car earned a light sentence, while protesting illegally at the Capitol won a decade in prison.

Another great article by Prof Hanson, and worthy of your time to read in full.

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22 posted on 05/08/2023 6:17:04 AM PDT by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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To: Alberta's Child; Alouette; AndyJackson; Aria; BatGuano; beaversmom; bigfootbob; Brian Griffin; ...
Ping! Out to the Victor Davis Hanson list

The events of the French (socialist) revolution sound eerily like our present day reality ...

The months of the year themselves were renamed, the days of the week renumbered and relabeled. Statues were toppled, first at night, later in shameless daylight. Place names were erased and renamed. The original revolutionary heroes were not to be mentioned; their uncouth successors deified. Money was printed to “spread the wealth”—until it was worthless.

Finally, what could not go on, did not go on, as French society unraveled. Then the so-called Thermidors put an end to the madness of the Robespierre brothers and their sidekick, the 26-year-old Saint-Just, and did to them what they had done to thousands.

So, the world became topsy-turvy. Throwing a firebomb into a police-occupied patrol car earned a light sentence, while protesting illegally at the Capitol won a decade in prison.

Another great article by Prof Hanson, and worthy of your time to read in full.

FR Index of his articles: Victor Davis Hanson on FR

Town Hall: Victor Davis Hanson on Town Hall

American Greatness: Victor Davis Hanson on American Greatness

His website: Victor Davis Hanson

Please let me know if you want on or off this new VDH ping list.

As a reminder, Professor Hanson has asked that we do not post the full article of his writings. Thank you for following the link to finish his article.

Content created by the Center for American Greatness, Inc. is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a significant audience.

23 posted on 05/08/2023 6:19:10 AM PDT by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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To: MtnClimber

Woketardian treason will only slow down when the traitors are tried. convicted, and sentenced to be one-time rope testers.


25 posted on 05/08/2023 6:27:07 AM PDT by Carl Vehse
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To: MtnClimber

America is exporting chaos, absurdity and iron-fisted censorship. A U.S. President who cannot even speak clearly demonstrates to the world we are the world’s leader in exporting gibberish.

It is astonishing how much the slapstick antics of today’s American leadership so closely resemble classic Mel Brooks movies such as “Blazing Saddles.”

The USA has become the laughingstock of the world yet those in charge think their constant pratfalls and faceplants are exactly what are needed.


26 posted on 05/08/2023 6:28:09 AM PDT by Gnome1949
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To: MtnClimber

Perhaps the best VDH piece ever.


27 posted on 05/08/2023 6:39:28 AM PDT by VTenigma (Conspiracy theory is the new "spoiler alert")
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To: Texas Fossil

The lessons of the past serve to illuminate our present and our future. Which is why the left is so desperate to erase them.


29 posted on 05/08/2023 7:23:43 AM PDT by Noumenon (You're not voting your way out of this. KTF)
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To: ping jockey

That is correct!


30 posted on 05/08/2023 7:28:59 AM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: MtnClimber

“It may only end like, as in France, when what the revolutionaries did to so many others gets visited back on them”.

May we see Robespierre x 10,000 or more.


31 posted on 05/08/2023 7:35:45 AM PDT by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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To: MtnClimber

Another brilliant essay by VDH, comparing our current situation with the French revolutionaries!

You know the saying, “ Those that forget history are destined to repeat it”.
I only hope we can come back from all of this madness…


32 posted on 05/08/2023 8:10:49 AM PDT by telescope115 (My feet are on the ground, and my head is in the stars. A Man, and proud of it!)
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To: VTenigma

Perhaps the best VDH piece ever.

One of his best, for sure!


33 posted on 05/08/2023 8:16:24 AM PDT by telescope115 (My feet are on the ground, and my head is in the stars. A Man, and proud of it!)
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To: ping jockey

Oh well we had a solid 247 year run.

Chin up, it ain’t over til it’s over-and it ain’t over yet!👍


34 posted on 05/08/2023 8:18:10 AM PDT by telescope115 (My feet are on the ground, and my head is in the stars. A Man, and proud of it!)
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To: texas booster

Please add me to your ping list.

Thank you!


35 posted on 05/08/2023 8:29:03 AM PDT by pax_et_bonum (God is good, He loves us, and He is always with us.)
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To: Right_Wing_Madman

Only if someone starts chopping heads. If youre waiting for the pendulum to come back then your looking for generational change.

Fortunately the boomers spawned poorly, and the millennials are too cowardly to attempt because misgendering someone may lead to carbon toxicity destroying the earth. GenX grew a bumper crop of Z. Half of Z arent likely to reproduce due to problems finding a compatible species and gender. The half that know that humans dont have genders are conservative.

At first Alpha will be too cowed to have any independent thought. Its not until the ticking of their own biological clocks start drowning out the psychopathic screams of the boomers will they question the millennials beliefs and choices. The rage of those forcibly transitioned as toddlers will be everywhere.

Without some type of altering event that leaves the populous feeling personally threatened, the country will not be back on a more stable track until something closer to 2050 when the mentally stable half of Zs offspring begin to compare the teachings of those that came before and begin having their first thoughts on how the world should be.

Regardless of ones beliefs on whether its REALLLY Masons, space demons, or other entities attempting to force a change in the US, the fact is they know they need to do it while the psychology of the useful idiot still holds sway.

Boomers lose control and pass the baton to millennials election night 2028. X is far too small to put up any real resistance by itself. This is why they need to try to implement their vision by 2030 so it can be cemented in place by the time that the tide changes enough to wash it away.


36 posted on 05/08/2023 8:45:09 AM PDT by gnarledmaw (Hive minded liberals worship leaders, sovereign conservatives elect servants.)
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To: FreedomPoster
The French Revolution was Communist Revolution V 0.0

I'm a student of history and know about the French revolution. I never thought of that.

There is a lot of truth to that statement.

37 posted on 05/08/2023 9:04:00 AM PDT by painter ( Isaiah: �Woe to those who call evil good and good evil,")
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To: FreedomPoster
The French Revolution was Communist Revolution V 0.0 Convince me otherwise.

The "Levelers" of the English Civil War preceded them.

38 posted on 05/08/2023 9:08:59 AM PDT by Brass Lamp
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To: painter

Marx and Engels connected in Paris only a little over 50 years after the French Revolution ended, and only about 75 years after the Paris Commune.


39 posted on 05/08/2023 9:43:01 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: MtnClimber

Every revolution eventually turns on itself. And the ends results of the French Revolution were a pile of headless corpses and a tryant ruling France.


40 posted on 05/08/2023 2:55:26 PM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized of man.)
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