{"id":11437,"date":"2018-10-03T13:17:04","date_gmt":"2018-10-03T20:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11437"},"modified":"2018-10-03T13:17:04","modified_gmt":"2018-10-03T20:17:04","slug":"americas-new-jacobins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/americas-new-jacobins\/","title":{"rendered":"America&#8217;s New Jacobins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ Hoover Institution<\/p>\n<p>Maximilien Robespierre and his Jacobin \u201cCommittee of Public Safety\u2019 highjacked the late 18th-century French Revolution. As supposedly more authentically radical revolutionaries, Jacobins did away with their supposedly less radical first-generation Girondists, who themselves had helped to liquidate the French monarchy and many of the Ancient R\u00e9gime.<\/p>\n<p>What followed Robespierre\u2019s \u201cReign of Terror\u201d were cycles of revolution until the appearance of Napoleon\u2019s military autocracy. The United States,\u00a0<em>mutatis mutandis<\/em>, currently seems on the verge of a new cycle of such leftwing radicalism in spirit and substance\u2014as the old Democrat Party appears to be withering away and a new Socialist Democrat Party assumes its place.<\/p>\n<p>We can see the changes in Washington. Emboldened leftwing protestors recently disrupted the Senate Supreme Court confirmation hearings on Judge Brett Kavanaugh. A bewildered Majority Chairman Sen. Chuck Grassley vainly tried to restore order by insisting on decorum and custom.<\/p>\n<p>Yet it proved hard for an overwhelmed Grassley to distinguish the shouting in the gallery from the even more disruptive antics of the Democrat senators at his side who were vying with the protestors to authenticate their leftwing fides.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoover.org\/research\/americas-new-jacobins\">Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ Hoover Institution Maximilien Robespierre and his Jacobin \u201cCommittee of Public Safety\u2019 highjacked the late 18th-century French Revolution. As supposedly more authentically radical revolutionaries, Jacobins did away with their supposedly less radical first-generation Girondists, who themselves had helped to liquidate the French monarchy and many of the Ancient R\u00e9gime. What followed Robespierre\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-2Yt","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13161,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/optimism-inc-will-wokeness-finally-cannibalize-itself\/","url_meta":{"origin":11437,"position":0},"title":"Optimism, Inc.: Will Wokeness Finally Cannibalize Itself?","author":"victorhanson","date":"April 18, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ Private PapersO Part 1: French Revolutionaries under the Guillotine This week I offer a few historical hopeful examples of why and how mass hysterias arise, consume, and die off. 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