The Left is doing the provoking for a hot civil war, constantly probing and taking it to a hot Civil War. The guillotine is replacing the upraised Socialist fist that the Black Lives Matter movement has taken for its own (why not – its founders are self-proclaimed “trained Marxists”).
McMaken: What the Conservatives Get Wrong about the French Revolution
The thing we now call “conservatism” in the West largely comes out of a reaction against the French Revolution and other revolutionary movements inspired by it. The Continental conservatives—e.g., Joseph de Maistre, Friedrich von Gentz, Klemens von Metternich, and Juan Donoso Cortés—embraced monarchism, often including its more authoritarian and absolutist varieties, in an effort to avoid the excesses of … Read more
