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Victor Davis Hanson warns protest leaders: 'Today's revolutionary becomes tomorrow's counter-revolutionary'
Fox News ^ | June 9, 2020 | Charles Creitz

Posted on 06/09/2020 12:45:05 PM PDT by gattaca

Hoover Institution senior fellow Victor Davis Hanson told "The Ingraham Angle" Monday that the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement has parallels to other mass movements throughout history, including the French Revolution and the Cultural Revolution in Communist China.

"These revolutionary movements are like a stream," Hanson said, "and then all these other streams combine with these different agendas," including "careerist agendas."

"But what happens is," Hanson added, "today's revolutionary becomes tomorrow's counter-revolutionary because you can never satisfy the mob and you have to get more and more extreme."

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: revolution; riots; vhd

1 posted on 06/09/2020 12:45:05 PM PDT by gattaca
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To: gattaca

Martyrdom is so noble.


2 posted on 06/09/2020 12:47:09 PM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: gattaca

The great VDH author of
https://www.amazon.com/War-Like-Other-Athenians-Peloponnesian/dp/0812969707


3 posted on 06/09/2020 12:52:35 PM PDT by olepap
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To: gattaca

VDS knows history.
Leftists eat their own.
Leftists also do not read - with any degree of comprehension in any case.
That’s why they are leftists.
And our enemy.


4 posted on 06/09/2020 1:15:58 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: rktman

Has Citizen Frey fled Minneapolis?


5 posted on 06/09/2020 1:16:49 PM PDT by gasport (Coetus Democratorum delendus est)
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To: Da Coyote

BLMEiC
Except in Chicago


6 posted on 06/09/2020 1:17:45 PM PDT by 9422WMR (democRATS are destroying the country.)
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To: gattaca

The Problem With Revolutions is that they revolve all the way back around, and smack you in the face.


7 posted on 06/09/2020 1:19:04 PM PDT by Kriggerel ("All great truths are hard and bitter, but lies... are sweeter than wild honey" (Ragnar Redbeard))
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To: 9422WMR

Should it be blmish?


8 posted on 06/09/2020 1:19:27 PM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: Kriggerel

“The Problem With Revolutions is that they revolve all the way back around, and smack you in the face.”

And then Napoleon happens.


9 posted on 06/09/2020 1:25:03 PM PDT by ModelBreaker
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To: ModelBreaker

Very good point!


10 posted on 06/09/2020 1:32:18 PM PDT by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: gattaca

Aristotle noticed after studying 300 constitutions that the middle class prevents the upper class from destroying the lower class. Marx failed to see this obvious point. America has the greatest middle class and Trump is making it twice the size. Pelosi and poor blacks hate each other economically.


11 posted on 06/09/2020 2:42:15 PM PDT by Falconspeed
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To: gattaca

Great! Was telling my son this yesterday. a) Their rhetoric demands they eat their own. b) The more radical they become the more they leave those behind whose belief will not stretch to the same extent as theirs c) others finally wake up and cross to the other side.


12 posted on 06/09/2020 6:40:07 PM PDT by melsec (There's a track, winding back, to an old forgotten shack along the road to Gundagai..)
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To: gattaca

“But what happens is,” Hanson added, “today’s revolutionary becomes tomorrow’s counter-revolutionary because you can never satisfy the mob and you have to get more and more extreme.”


Or like most revolutions’, you immediately kill those who helped put you in power.


13 posted on 06/09/2020 6:45:53 PM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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