The Jacobins were arguably the proto-Communists.
Yeah, no kidding. And the fact that Jefferson cheerleaded for them after seeing their actions first hand, not to mention continued to cheer them on even when the other founding fathers (who at least had communications being delayed due to how long messages to and from Europe took during that time as an excuse for initially supporting them) began to get disgusted with the September Massacres, is truly disgraceful of him. It’s probably a GOOD thing he wasn’t part of the Constitutional Delegation due to being in France at the time, as otherwise, we’d probably have our own French Revolution, and all that that implies, had he played a role in the Constitution, being as broken as if not even MORE so than the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen.
And quite frankly, had Cronkite and those news media jerks not tried to paint Vietnam in a bad light, the anti-war movement would not have gained traction. That’s one reason why, even though I’m otherwise supportive of the Constitution, I am NOT fond of so-called “freedom of the press” (they certainly more than demonstrated that right during Vietnam, and if anything abused it while the government if anything was too fearful to even dare try to stop them. Abusing it as much as Voltaire did in France, and he was in part responsible for the Jacobins, acting as a role model for them if their “temples of reasons” bearing his quote is of any indication. When freedom of the press goes as far as to outright bully the state and deliberately push false narratives and be the de-facto state, it makes me think such a “right” isn’t even WORTH having).