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The Democratic Party Is Dead, Long Live the Jacobins!
American Greatness ^ | 7 May, 2026 | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 05/07/2026 6:55:48 AM PDT by MtnClimber

Today’s Democratic Party has abandoned its traditional working-class, patriotic roots and embraced a radical Jacobin ideology built on division, coercion, and political extremism.

For the past century, the agendas of the Democratic Party were predictable. They professed concern for working Americans and supported blue-collar unions.

Unemployment insurance, a 40-hour work week, disability insurance, and Social Security were their trademarks—often rapidly achieved by growing government bureaucracies and continually raising taxes. Still, many Democrats were socially conservative.

By the 1970s, Democrats still deplored antisemitism. Party officials had rejected their own segregationists to champion civil rights.

Presidents like Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, and John F. Kennedy all supported strong defense and military deterrence.

All that is now passé.

The only vestigial Democrat left in Congress is Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman, himself roundly despised by Democrat leaders.

Today, supporting Israel and calling for campuses to stop their institutionalized antisemitism is Democratic political suicide.

Forty years ago, any Democrat with a Nazi tattoo was political toast; today, he can become the party’s nominee for the Maine Senate race.

So, the current Democrat Party is no longer truly democratic at all. Its new spirit and methods resemble the radical Jacobin Party of the French Revolution. Today, Democrats claim that if any opponent gives a Roman salute, he is a Nazi—while insisting that one of their own with a Nazi tattoo is not.

Jacobinism rejects Martin Luther King Jr.’s emphasis on the “content of . . . character.” It instead prefers fixating on “the color of . . . skin.”

It aims to divide the nation arbitrarily between the noble oppressed and the toxic oppressors.

So these new Jacobins have institutionalized racially separate college dorms and graduation ceremonies, along with hiring and promoting on the basis of race.

(Excerpt) Read more at amgreatness.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: bolsheviks; commies; democrats; domesticenemies; insurgents; leftism; vdh; victordavishanson
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1 posted on 05/07/2026 6:55:48 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: texas booster

VDH ping


2 posted on 05/07/2026 6:56:22 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber
"So, the current Democrat Party is no longer truly democratic at all. Its new spirit and methods resemble the radical Jacobin Party of the French Revolution."

May they meet the same fate as their forebears did in 1794. Yeah, I went there.

3 posted on 05/07/2026 7:03:16 AM PDT by Tench_Coxe (The woke were surprised by the reaction to the Bud Light fiasco. May there be many more surprises)
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To: MtnClimber

Bfl


4 posted on 05/07/2026 7:03:31 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy
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To: MtnClimber

Lets just say it. Archo Communists.


5 posted on 05/07/2026 7:03:43 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: MtnClimber

It is a shame the GOPe Congress performs CPR on these rotten mongrels rather than burying them and taking advantage of their current position as majority.


6 posted on 05/07/2026 7:08:05 AM PDT by dforest
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To: MtnClimber

Not as dead as should be sadly it will rise from the dead no matter how bad the corpe stinks...


7 posted on 05/07/2026 7:10:15 AM PDT by dpetty121263
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To: dpetty121263

Oh definitely. A nightmare is coming. I hate even thinking that they’re gonna take the house even with the redistricting. It’s gonna be such a mess with them investigating every freaking day mainly because they’re mean about it.


8 posted on 05/07/2026 7:14:12 AM PDT by napscoordinator (DeSantis is a beast! Florida is the freest state in the country! )
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To: MtnClimber
Today’s Jacobins would now ridicule Bill Clinton’s 1990s calls for secure borders and an end to illegal immigration as “fascist” and “racist.”

And tens of millions of illegals have entered the country in the 25 years since. I have no doubt that there are at least 50 million illegal aliens in the country. There were 11 million back in 1986 (that the government admitted to, anyway). That was 40 years ago.

9 posted on 05/07/2026 7:18:15 AM PDT by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
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To: MtnClimber

Now that they have a king, Mr. Hakeem Potatohead, the Donkey Cong flying Luigi Monkees are on their way out.


10 posted on 05/07/2026 7:40:42 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Remember, King Hakeem and his butt buddy, Schumer are still going to try to reopen the border.)
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To: MtnClimber
VDH is being obtuse.

They are straightup Communists.

The longer we delay internalizing this truth, and figuring out effective ways of defeating their Communism, the closer we come to being wiped out by them.

The longer people are satisfied by VDH's nerdly, professorial, wordy, show-offy history lessons about the "Jacobins" the longer we wait to be exterminated by them.

These people are not some curiosity figures in an old, charming woodcut.

They are Pol Pot.

They are Mao.

They are Stalin.

They are Lenin.

They are the H man.

And our side better start pulling its collective heads out and stop sipping brandy in the study reading history books and get hip to the murderous reality of these people, and start defeating them.

11 posted on 05/07/2026 7:51:05 AM PDT by caddie (Going forward we all need to become Trump, and also Captain Obvious, and Charlie Kirk too. )
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To: MtnClimber

Probably ought to tell them that...


12 posted on 05/07/2026 7:54:02 AM PDT by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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To: caddie

We need to do what General Pinochet did.


13 posted on 05/07/2026 8:01:14 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: MtnClimber
This would be a fun man on the street for Jesse Watters. Send Johnny to any campus besides Hillsdale or Liberty. Ask who the Jacobins were and/or how they were stopped.

Put this in the re-living forgotten history category.

14 posted on 05/07/2026 8:15:21 AM PDT by Kudsman (Thune loves Democratic Socialists. )
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To: MtnClimber

The liberal white women are killing the democrat party. It’s great to be alive these days and witness it.


15 posted on 05/07/2026 8:20:47 AM PDT by Preachin' (I stand with many voters who will never vote for a pro abortion candidate.)
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To: MtnClimber

The Democrat Crime Syndicate is alive. Many members, supporters, sycophants will continue their evil ways. The recipients of their schemes are grateful.


16 posted on 05/07/2026 8:26:11 AM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization? )
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To: MtnClimber

Apres Trump le deluge


17 posted on 05/07/2026 8:46:28 AM PDT by DeplorablePaul
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To: MtnClimber

I had to look up this Jacob reference.wicopedia is good and included this
“ historian Victor Davis Hanson likened the rise and policies of leftists in the Democratic Party in 2019 to the Jacobins and Jacobinism.[87]”


18 posted on 05/07/2026 9:11:55 AM PDT by larryjohnson (FReepersonaltrainer)
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The original Jacobins may have gone to extremes with things like the Reign of Terror, but they were of middle class background and not as radical as later socialists and communists. But that was when the industrial revolution was just getting started, before there were large numbers of factory workers.


19 posted on 05/07/2026 9:19:33 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: caddie
Agree. Not that I don't like me some VDH history lessons, and not that wikipedia deserves any more than a cursory glance, but there you find nine different countries and different eras where the word jacobin has been used to describe all sorts of political movements.

It's similar to these leftists who can't tolerate calling illegal aliens "illegal" because that's exactly what they are, and exactly why we object.

20 posted on 05/07/2026 9:23:40 AM PDT by WhoisAlanGreenspan? (With malice toward none with charity for all with firmness in the right as God gives us to see)
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