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One entry found for Jacobin.
Main Entry: Jac·o·bin Pronunciation: 'ja-k&-b&n Function: noun Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French, from Medieval Latin Jacobinus, from Late Latin Jacobus (Saint James); from the location of the first Dominican convent in the street of Saint James, Paris 1 : DOMINICAN 2 [French, from Jacobin Dominican; from the group's founding in the Dominican convent in Paris] : a member of an extremist or radical political group; especially : a member of such a group advocating egalitarian democracy and engaging in terrorist activities during the French Revolution of 1789
President Bush is not denying God - as the Jacobins, being Rousseau acolytes did. President Bush is not having people who disagree with him sent to the guillotine, as the Jacobins (the Terror) did. If the label of Jacobins can be applied in today's world, it would fit the Nazi-Islamists to a tee.
The author above has de-constructed the falsehood that the Jacobins became, and attempts to graft this same hypocrisy onto President Bush.
Like any enlightenment-driven intellectual who has fallen sway to the fundamental flaw in all leftist philosophy and has forsaken God and replaced him with Man's auto-perfectability, and like those same Jacobins who later were personified by Napoleon's false revolution, the author has managed to convince himself these are one and the same. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Above example which puts proof to the adage, "when Man ceases to believe in God, he doesn't become someone who believes in nothing, but instead will believe anything"
I think you have missed the point. The comparison is, one:
The former position of the Republican party vis a vis the current party's position on the strength of the central government,two: The President's expressed drive to remake other nation's political structures, a position that flys in the face of Republican party history.Three: The President's dismissive attitude toward American workers when he seeks to favor illegal immigrants over American workers via the presentation of legal status to illegals.
The President is more of a Wilson Democrat than a Reagan Republican.
With the hubris of an eastern, Brahmin child of privilege and the no-nothing bravado of a west Texas, self-imaged cowboy, Bush has grafted God's will onto an overarching vision of Messianic democracy. This radicalism has no basis in American history or tradition and is, in fact, in direct contradiction of the principles of our founding fathers.
Jacob Leib Talmon (1916-1980), esteemed Israeli historian presciently foresaw our present situation over 50 years ago.