Not only is Antony Blinken a gelatinous moonbat, he is either ignorant of the grade school basics of Western history or flat out evil. He proves it by equating the American Revolution — the apogee of civilization — with its polar opposite, the nightmarish French Revolution. The latter has served as the template for the seizure of power by malevolent lunatics in the name of “The People” ever since.
The French Revolution launched the Reign of Terror that killed tens of thousands of people, often in the most gruesome ways. Simon Schama wrote in “Citizens” that during the Vendéan massacre, “Every atrocity the time could imagine was meted out to the defenseless population.… https://t.co/Q0xB8jvw7U
— Pedro L. Gonzalez (@emeriticus) July 15, 2023
The Reign of Terror set the stage for the horrific large-scale atrocities that occurred when similar maniacs took control in places like Russia and China, leading to the death of millions of people and the collapse of whole societies into totalitarian repression.
The Secretary of State equating these two events is like a physicist announcing that heat is the same thing as cold.
On a tip from Occam’s Stubble.
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