A Counterrevolution Is Coming

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Victor Davis Hanson lays it out here. Where we were, where we are – how got here – and where it’s all going.

The Impending Thermidor Reaction in Jacobin America

At peak woke, our reign of terror is beginning to lose momentum because its continuation would destroy all the work of 247 years of American progress and sacrifice.

By Victor Davis Hanson, May 7, 2023:

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The decade-long French Revolution that broke out in 1789 soon devolved into far more than removing the monarchy, as it became antithetical to the earlier American precedent. American notions of liberty and freedom were seen as far too narrow, given the state, if only all-powerful and all-wise, could mandate “equality” and force “fraternity” among its subjects.

Each cycle of French revolutionary fervor soon became more radicalized and cannibalistic—until it reached its logical ends of violent absurdity.

Originally, the idea of curbing the power of a Bourbon king through a parliamentary republic became lethally counter-revolutionary.

Soon even attacks on the Catholic Church and the abolition of the monarchy entirely were deemed insufficient. The king himself and his consorts had to be beheaded. Monasteries and churches were to be ransacked, and priests exiled or lynched.

The sometimes moderate Girondins, who favored constitutional government, were mostly executed by their former friends among the Montagnards. In turn, the latter were soon deemed too conservative for the emerging crazy Jacobins. So they, too, had to be decapitated. The ensuing year-long reign of terror guillotined thousands of innocents, deemed guilty of being guilty of something.

By 1793, the revolution had turned nihilist and suicidal. The foundational date of France was recalibrated (not as 1619 but) as 1789—or “year one.”

Jacobins sought to wipe out religion, both materially and spiritually. They replaced God, first, with the atheistic “Cult of Reason” and then a stranger still “Cult of the Supreme Being”—a dreamed-up, living, humanistic god that only the murderous Robespierre could fully envision, but eerily similar to our own Green New Deal deity.

The months of the year themselves were renamed, the days of the week renumbered and relabeled. Statues were toppled, first at night, later in shameless daylight. Place names were erased and renamed. The original revolutionary heroes were not to be mentioned; their uncouth successors deified. Money was printed to “spread the wealth”—until it was worthless.

Murderous cancel culture ran unchecked. Yesterday’s French revolutionary became today’s counterrevolutionary—and tomorrow’s decapitated.

Almost everyone who originally had opposed the absolute monarchy, and, like the Americans, wished for a constitutional replacement, was eventually executed by revolutionaries who were then executed by more radical revolutionaries. The longer and more radical the revolution ran, the meaner, dumber, and more deadly the revolutionaries who emerged from the woodwork.

Finally, what could not go on, did not go on, as French society unraveled. Then the so-called Thermidors put an end to the madness of the Robespierre brothers and their sidekick, the 26-year-old Saint-Just, and did to them what they had done to thousands.

The final revolutionary correction saw a Directory, then a Consulate, and finally the dictator Napoleon—the self-described emperor who claimed he was the final absolutist manifestation of the “Revolution.”

A Revolution of the Disingenuous

We are swept up in similarly scary revolutionary times, after the perfect storm of the 2020 rioting, the COVID destructive lockdowns, and a radical socialist takeover of the old Democratic Party.

Decades of successful and legitimate efforts to ensure equality of opportunity, a safety net for the poor, and increased civil liberties have transmogrified into an “equity” agenda, or state-mandated equality of result—or else!

“Diversity” is now an Orwellian word for racial essentialism to the one-drop degree. Jim Crow racism was not eliminated permanently. It now has resurfaced as woke or “good” segregation. Racially separate facilities and events are apparent “reparatory justice.” Black activists are calling for $800 billion in reparations from San Francisco, a city that is melting down as we speak.

The old precivilizational tribalism and monotony of thought are now deemed “diverse.” “Inclusion” means replacing one racial hierarchy of the 1950s with a newer one of the 2020s. Woke leftists prove “inclusive” by excluding as “haters” and “denialists” any who disagree and cannot be easily refuted.

Opportunists Abound

The Nike admen Colin Kaepernick and LeBron James ended up with millions of dollars in endorsements ultimately derived from Communist Chinese exploiters of servile labor—a fact that all their pseudo-revolutionary performance art cannot mask.

Like the rich and elite Montagnards and Jacobins, well-off, degreed suburban grifters suddenly became “woke” arbiters of the “correct.” Thousands of diversity, equity, and inclusion czars bloated administrations, broke university budgets, and terrified faculty and employees with their panopticon surveillance. And yet did any of them result in a single better student reader, or at least one more accomplished university math major? Have K-12 scores soared with DEI monitors on hand?

We have not descended to the guillotine yet, but we are getting there with online cancel culture, doxxing, deplatforming, boycotts, mandatory diversity statements, indoctrination training, ostracism for an incorrect word, and violence redefined as activism.

Black Lives Matter ended when its supposedly Marxist architects all vanished into comfortable bourgeoise estates and cushy retirements—along with the millions of dollars they shook down from guilt-ridden corporations.

#MeToo sputtered out once the mantra of “believe women” turned its attention to candidate Joe Biden and Tara Reade. It turned out that she most certainly must not be believed when she swore the Delaware Democrat had sexually assaulted her.

Supposed transgendered heroes vie for profitable TV endorsement commercials that are as lucrative to them as they are ruinous to their employers.

In our revolutionary times, mediocre biological male athletes “transition” into female sports and suddenly become rich and famous. Women who transition to males, for some reason, find no such profits from male competitions.

A black transient with 42 arrests and three assault convictions is accidentally killed by a would-be Samaritan bystander who takes action to stop his threats on the subway. The tragedy becomes a rallying cry for “activist” leaders, eager for continuous notoriety and profits, while 10,000 black people murdered per year, mostly by other black people, do not earn a snore from these same “civil rights” leaders.

The World Upside Down

Like Revolutionary France, our woke revolution was contrary to human nature and therefore had to be imposed by force or coercion.

Merit is the great enemy of wokeness. One day SAT tests were blind mechanisms to allow the less privileged to compete on the basis of talent rather than parentage. The next day such tests were deemed counterrevolutionary, racist enemies of the people. Universities boast of rejecting 60-70 percent of those who scored perfect on SATs, as if their excellence was proof of their “privilege.”

Jurisprudence was tarred as racist, as if laws against shoplifting, looting, smash-and-grab, car-jacking, and arson were created only by elite white men who never had the need to steal or loot and who therefore made silly, arbitrary laws against them.

Like the Jacobins, our woke elite deem prisons arbitrary detention centers. So thousands of those arrested for committing violent crimes have either never been charged, never convicted, never sentenced, or never incarcerated. These exemptions rest on the principle that the revolutionaries who destroyed the enforcement of law have the wherewithal to protect themselves from the dystopia they created.

Borders disappeared, apparently on grounds they were 19th-century racist relics. Yet sanctuary cities prove the least welcoming of the tens of thousands they all but invited into distant other towns and counties.

The homeless were no longer deemed vagrants, or selfish in their take-over of public spaces, but the victims of an oppressive society.

So public defecation, urination, fornication, and injection were rebranded as mere lifestyle choices of the unfortunate, not to be judged wrong or unlawful by the victimizers who supposedly made thousands homeless. Ancient laws of hygiene and municipal cleanliness were thrown out as bourgeois, as cities reverted to the protocols of their medieval forebears.

Leftists who created these Frankenstein-like monsters, like the fictive Dr. Frankenstein himself, became targets of their own experiments. It was no longer enough to support civil rights for the transgendered. Suddenly any questioning of the wisdom of biologically born males competing in women’s sports or of teenagers with penises undressing among teenage girls in locker rooms, or of state-sponsored drag-queen shows with children in attendance condemned one as transphobic and worse.

Advocating a secure border and strictly legal immigration was proof of nativism. Equal opportunity for all races was racism. Advocacy for the use of natural gas as a needed transitional fuel indicted one as a climate “denialist.”

As our woke version of the Jacobin revolution accelerated, society itself began to unwind—as expected given America relied on meritocracy, free expression dissent, the rule of law, forbearance, and tolerance.

In less than three years, our major cities became filthy to the point of unhealthiness. Violent crime and thievery drove businesses and commuters away. Subways at night became the domain of the homeless and criminal. Vacancy rates in San Francisco or downtown Portland shot up to 25 percent or more. Millions began leaving Jacobin blue cities and states, and headed for sanctuaries in more suburban and rural red states.

Once-trusted and familiar government agencies became weaponized—and inevitably incompetent. The FBI was not interested in the organizers of 120 days of violent looting, arson, murder, and rioting in summer 2020, or the threatening mobs who showed up at the homes of Supreme Court Justices. Instead, it fixated on parents at school board meetings, Latin Mass Catholics, former Trump Administration officials, and anyone daring to question the Russian collusion or Russian disinformation laptop hoaxes.

The Pentagon brass oversaw a flight from Afghanistan, in the greatest military humiliation in modern American history. Yet at the same time, it focused on rooting out white rage and white privilege despite presenting no data to substantiate its accusations. Former intelligence officers and “authorities” misled the country and warped an election, to ensure Americans did not take seriously the incriminating evidence in Hunter Biden’s laptop of the Biden family’s widespread corruption.

So, the world became topsy-turvy. Throwing a firebomb into a police-occupied patrol car earned a light sentence, while protesting illegally at the Capitol won a decade in prison.

An American who did not get vaccinated was to be thrown out of the U.S. military; an illegal alien crossing the border unlawfully without a vaccination might earn a free phone and free lodging in a big-city hotel.

The more the government printed money it did not have, the more the country was slandered as cruel and mean to its underclass. The more standards were dropped for admission, hiring, promotion, and retention, the more employers were deemed unfair and bigoted.

As the American Jacobin phase accelerated, the more it, too, seemed to pursue its own destruction. Few now trust that the graduates of the Ivy League and marquee universities know what they once did. And why not, when students are admitted without test scores, but are assured passing grades, watered-down classes, and graduation to be synonymous with admission?

The U.S. military fell short by thousands of recruits. And why not, when it advertised for manpower with invitations from drag queens, and hounded those as racists who had died at twice their numbers in the population in Afghanistan and Iraq?

At peak woke, our reign of terror is beginning to lose momentum because its continuation would erode all the work of 247 years of American progress and sacrifice.

Former and current liberals—an Elon Musk, Bill Maher, Matt Taibbi, Bari Weiss, Glen Greenwald, Naomi Wolf, or a Richard Dreyfuss—are deemed counterrevolutionaries for questioning the excesses of wokeism, and so began questioning the premises of wokeism itself.

New polls showed scant public support for open borders, for multiple sexual identities, and for biological men competing in women’s sports. Reparations from an insolvent government to black Americans—on the principle that those whose ancestors might have been enslaved eight generations ago were owed money from those whose ancestors might have owned slaves eight generations ago—is widely rejected by the general population.

When corporations like Anheuser-Busch or Disney tried to ingratiate themselves to the woke Jacobins, they lost billions in revenue—just as the woke Pentagon has lost thousands of recruits.

Woke networks like CNN have smaller audiences than some one-person podcasts.

A desperate and woke NBA now brags that its recent playoff televised audience reached over 4 million viewers. A quarter-century ago, when the U.S. population was nearly 60 million smaller, the pre-Jacobin NBA won over 70 million viewers who watched the 1998 finals.

Joe Biden, the thin veneer of the woke revolution, polls below 40 percent. Even that favorability is propped up by the consensus that he has no idea where he is or what he is saying—and thus at least is deserving of 40 percent support for not being responsible for what he has empowered.

A counterrevolution is building, not just because people are angry at what has become of their country, but because they now are learning that if they do nothing, they will have no country—and soon.

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Chris Wolf
Chris Wolf
10 months ago

https://twitter.com/bubbaprog/status/1654679569117372416?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet
The more we are getting confronted by African-Americans everywhere we look, the more comfortable they’re getting with letting their hair down and not trying to always act like the white people are watching, the more we get comfortable with saying the truth about how we feel and how clear it becomes to white people that we definitely do not want to live like them or with them whenever possible.

edward
edward
10 months ago
Reply to  Chris Wolf

How dare you for telling the truth on this issue.

THX 1138
THX 1138
10 months ago

No Ms. Geller, a counter-revolution is not coming but a counter-rebellion may come. A philosophical, intellectual, rational, principled, revolution like 1776 is not the same as an emotional, violent outburst of misguided, un-intellectual, anti-intellectual, blind rebellion from emotional frustration.

Trumpism is not Jeffersonianism.

The French Revolution was not a revolution based on reason contrary to the claims of the leaders of that blind, emotionalist, rebellion. The American Revolution was based on reason and rational ideas, the French Revolution was a bloody, blind rebellion of terror, of unreason, of irrational ideas.

Any one can claim they are speaking of reason, logic, and science like the power-lusting charlatan Robespierre, Rousseau, Karl Marx, or Anthony Fauci that does not mean they actually are. Any more than Global Warming, Phrenology, Freudian psychology, Marxism, or Social Darwinism are actually rational science, they are charlatan, pseudo-science.

The most likely outcome of a blind, emotionalist, rebellion in America today is a theocracy, theocracy was one of the forms of tyranny the Founders were dead set against. Indeed the Great Britain that existed in 1776 was a Divine Monarchy, a Christian theocracy with a Christian King ruling over it.

“Nonintellectual rebels cannot challenge the fundamental ideas they have been taught. All they can do by way of rebellion is to accept a series of false alternatives urged by their teachers, and then defiantly choose what they regard as the anti-establishment side.” – Objectivist philosopher Leonard Peikoff, “The Ominous Parallels: The End of Freedom in America”

Walter Sieruk
Walter Sieruk
10 months ago

Part of this article ,reads “Joe Biden, the thin veneer of the woke revolution…”

For that despicable fiend Joe Biden along with other of the far left with their awful scheme to indoctrinated, as in brainwash impressionable young people in the American public system into the mindset of accepting and embracing the politically correct ideology and Islamic propaganda of multiculturalism under the guise of “education.”

First, It should be made clear the America and her school system was not founded of the horrendously evil and horrible junk as multiculturalism and WOKE and CRT as well as other nonsensical forms of PC philosophy including Marxism.

It’s back to the important things that children need to be taught in school .Which are reading writing and mathematics.

To put this in another way, school students would much better off studying economics based on the precepts of Adam Smith and the laws of motion by Isaac Newton instead of the worthless philosophy of cultural relativity.

Second, much of the greatness of the history of the United States of America is because this nation was, mostly founded and based upon the Judo- Christian percepts and the concepts and values of Bible based Christianity and not Islamic precepts and “values.”

As the second President of the United States, John Adams, had, so well, declared when he wrote that “The general principles upon which the Fathers achieved independence were the general principles of Christianity …. I will avow that I believed and now believe that those general principles of Christianity are eternal and immutable as the existence of God.”

Harry
Harry
10 months ago
Reply to  Walter Sieruk

It seems Biden fully occupies what remains of you mind.

Brianroy
Brianroy
10 months ago

When the borders are opened to several million and many hundreds of thousands sent to the “Sanctuary Cities”, how are they going to eat, how are they going to drink, what are they prepared to do?
It will be open looting and BLM/ANTIFA style looting of gas station convenience stores, small and medium and big box food related stores, and even retail clothing and other outdoor camping type stores that will be the targets of mass looting, killings, rapes, arson.
Local to the border invasion gun owners in the first 30 to 40 miles may have to kill off many dozens breaking into and burning down their homes around them, and be aware if they somehow survive, the Biden Administration will criminally prosecute them if the US Citizen makes it to the other side of the aftermath. The Federal Government already has declared that those up to 100 miles from the borders and coastlines of the USA can expect NO Constitutional rights. They proved this with their criminal abuse and torture of those in the January 6, 2021, open the doors by FBI entrapment and then imprison in conditions that would make Guantanamo Bay Al Qaeda prisoners think they are 5 star hotels living in comparison to.
If war comes, it will be defending yourself against invasion mobs trying to kill you for daring to get gas or groceries or merely drive on any road or highway, or as they try to break into your home or apartment “just because” they want to steal and kill and destroy. There will be no US Army, no local police, only GOD to save you in those moments. If ever there is a place to set off a false flag nuke, one of those border crowds, before they cross, hypothetically…THAT would be a prime target. Wishful thinking though.

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Ron Kean
Ron Kean
10 months ago

VDH Forever

PatriotlizD
Patriotliz
10 months ago

VDH’s complicated intellectual discourse obscures the simple truth that we are undergoing a Communist Revolution in America.

Morticiaa
Morticiaa
10 months ago

Incredible essay from Hansen….who has the gift of insight, philosophical wisdom and intellect to present this analogous scenario. Must join his Twitter.

An aside… I got a VPN as our gov is even more repressive in what we can watch or read on internet and cable. Passing laws to restrict citizens from viewing. I found out I can’t stream Fox Nation programs or docs cause my credit card has a zip code they won’t accept. Trapped inside a commie regime in Canada

PanamaPat
PanamaPat
10 months ago

VDH’s analysis is correct, only it fails to recognize that an effective counter revolution requires the total annihilation of the enemies of western civilization wherever they may exist among us. Allowing these demons to retreat into their dens will only cause them to shortly remerge and assault us again. These monsters, their aiders and abettors, their supporters must be annihilated and their followers forever disenfranchised. I don’t believe for a second that the organized crime syndicates that has captured and masquerades as the Democratic Party has any intention of being replaced in power as the result of an election. They all crossed the Rubicon in 2020 and they are not going to retreat. They can only be annihilated, and that is where we are at today. Be forewarned, be prepared, blood will be spilled, and it may be your brother’s blood for all to have to be removed.

Carla
Carla
10 months ago

I didn’t come for a HISTORY lesson, just truth. Is that too much to ask?
KEEP IT SIMPLE STUPID!!

Stephen Honig
Stephen Honig
10 months ago

We have it now: Black racism, crime and Biden!

Walter Sieruk
Walter Sieruk
10 months ago

The terrible left -wing socialist un-American and even pro- Marxist situation of the threat of non-violent and outright violent subversion that the United States in now is in part, due to the awful the brainwash horrible junk as multiculturalism and CRT and WOKE as well as other nonsensical forms of PC philosophy including Marxism. Instead of the important things that young people need to be taught in school .Which are reading writing and mathematics.

So it’s fitting to quote from the book The Assault on America by Alex Mc Farland ,om page 13 it reads
That the “American public school system has been overwhelmingly secularized for several generations. It is hardly mysterious why most Gen Xer, Millennials, and those younger reject Christianity, traditional family structures, morals and patriotism, or are clueless about such things altogether . Public education is programmed to crank out masses of compliant little socialists. We are uploading our kids with vacuous bankrupt, unlivable philosophies, and this will ultimately mean the loss of our Constitution if iy does not stop.”

TRM
TRM
10 months ago

Skip the hysteria. Woke is a political dispute, not a reign of Terror. The Reign of terror was Trump’s attempted insurrection on Jan 6. Hansen should know better but evidently doesn’t intend to.

Snowedin
Snowedin
10 months ago
Reply to  TRM

There was no insurrection or attempted insurrection. The only ones who were armed were the DC Pigs.

ישועת ה' כהרף ע
ישועת ה' כהרף ע
10 months ago

Being equinted with the American society for 26 years, ive learned that African American are not really American, they are more African than they are Americans. As such, and for their own mental stability amd sanity, i believe that they should take them selves back to Africa to live there.
Obviously, over 200 years of living on the American continent, did not make tgem American, nor will another 500 years will! Its a vain experiment, black African feel and behave much more like their genetic forefather, then they do their American “stepfather” here to show you that “nature” is stronger ten folds then “nurture”.

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