OPINION
The Democratic Party Is Dead, Long Live the Jacobins!
Victor Davis Hanson | May 07, 2026
The opinions expressed by columnists are their own and do not necessarily represent the views of Townhall.com.
For the past century, the agendas of the Democratic Party were predictable. They professed concern for working Americans and supported blue-collar unions.
Unemployment insurance, a 40-hour work week, disability insurance, and Social Security were their trademarks -- often rapidly achieved by growing government bureaucracies and continually raising taxes. Still, many Democrats were socially conservative.
By the 1970s, Democrats still deplored antisemitism. Party officials had rejected their own segregationists to champion civil rights.
Presidents like Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, and John F. Kennedy all supported strong defense and military deterrence.
All that is now passe.
The only vestigial Democrat left in Congress is Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman, himself roundly despised by Democrat leaders.
Today, supporting Israel and calling for campuses to stop their institutionalized antisemitism is Democratic political suicide.
Forty years ago, any Democrat with a Nazi tattoo was political toast; today, he can become the party's nominee for the Maine Senate race.
So, the current Democrat Party is no longer truly democratic at all. Its new spirit and methods resemble the radical Jacobin Party of the French Revolution. Today, Democrats claim that if any opponent gives a Roman salute, he is a Nazi -- while insisting that one of their own with a Nazi tattoo is not.
Jacobinism rejects Martin Luther King Jr.'s emphasis on the "content of . . . character." It instead prefers fixating on "the color of . . . skin."
It aims to divide the nation arbitrarily between the noble oppressed and the toxic oppressors.
So these new Jacobins have institutionalized racially separate college dorms and graduation ceremonies, along with hiring and promoting on the basis of race.
The new Jacobins destroyed the southern border and welcomed in 10-12 million illegal aliens, seen as a future proletariat constituency. Today's Jacobins would now ridicule Bill Clinton's 1990s calls for secure borders and an end to illegal immigration as "fascist" and "racist."
...
READ MORE: https://townhall.com/columnists/victordavishanson/2026/05/07/the-democratic-party-is-dead-long-live-the-jacobins-n2675694
***
Chân thành cám ơn Quý Anh Chị ghé thăm "conbenho Nguyễn Hoài Trang Blog"
Xin được lắng nghe ý kiến chia sẻ của Quý Anh Chị trực tiếp tại Diễn Đàn Paltalk: 1Latdo Tapdoan Vietgian CSVN Phanquoc Bannuoc.
Kính Chúc Sức Khỏe Quý Anh Chị.
conbenho
Tiểu Muội quantu
Nguyễn Hoài Trang
08052026
__________________________
Cộng sản Việt Nam là TỘI ÁC
Bao che, dung dưỡng TỘI ÁC là ĐỒNG LÕA với TỘI ÁC
No comments:
Post a Comment