Human Events Daily with Jack Posobiec - EPISODE 634： CHRONICLES OF THE REVOLUTION — THE FRENCH TERROR

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00:00:30.000 This is what happens when the fourth turning meets fifth generation warfare.

00:00:39.200 A commentator, international social media sensation, and former Navy intelligence veteran.

00:00:45.960 This is Human Events with your host, Jack Posobiec.

00:00:48.820 Deliver us from evil.

00:00:51.520 All right, Jack Posobiec here.

00:00:53.540 Welcome, folks.

00:00:54.260 Human Events Special Edition.

00:00:56.280 We decided that this year, building on the success of the China Files last year, that

00:01:03.680 during the Christmas break, we ran that China Files series.

00:01:07.100 It became this incredibly famous, incredibly successful series for us, and we wanted to

00:01:12.420 recapture that same magic, but also tell new stories during this time frame that we don't

00:01:19.060 usually get a chance to get into because we're focused on the day's news, the day-to-day,

00:01:23.340 what's going on in the elections, what's going on with the regime, et cetera, et cetera.

00:01:27.540 And so I was looking down with the producers of Human Events, and I said, what do we want

00:01:32.120 to talk about?

00:01:32.720 And I said, the main thing that I think that we need to get into are these revolutions.

00:01:39.400 And what do you mean revolutions?

00:01:40.400 I said, well, we reference things like the Spanish Civil War, the Russian Revolution.

00:01:46.080 We talk about them all the time, but we never actually spend time digging into what they

00:01:50.620 were, what they actually mean.

00:01:52.660 And so for this Christmas break, what I wanted to do is put together, and we're working with

00:01:58.440 my co-host over at ThoughtCrime.

00:02:01.600 He is also the producer of The Charlie Kirk Show, the great Blake Neff.

00:02:06.380 And what we've done is put together a four-part series on these revolutions called Chronicles

00:02:12.400 of the Revolution.

00:02:14.120 And I wanted to start with the very first one, the French Terror. 0.78

00:02:18.660 Blake, tell us about the French Revolution.

00:02:22.700 Oh, boy.

00:02:23.380 Where to begin?

00:02:25.280 It is, you know, the old joke was that Chu and Lai got asked by someone when Nixon was

00:02:32.500 visiting China, like what the effects of the French Revolution were.

00:02:35.320 And the saying goes that he replied, too soon to tell.

00:02:39.720 Too soon to tell, yeah.

00:02:40.760 He probably wasn't actually even talking about that.

00:02:42.720 But we'll set that all aside.

00:02:43.980 It would be a perfectly valid answer to it.

00:02:46.880 It is, besides being one of the most important events in human history, it's one of the most

00:02:51.520 complex events in human history.

00:02:54.600 People are debating it to this day.

00:02:56.460 There's a million different theories about it.

00:02:58.520 And it really is, it does stand out as the genesis point for a lot of things we're still

00:03:05.480 debating today.

00:03:06.680 So the French Revolution, you know, you set the stage for it. 0.73

00:03:10.040 Well, it's, where is it?

00:03:11.500 It's in France.

00:03:12.780 And, well, what is France at that time?

00:03:14.580 Well, France at that time was not just this kind of, you know, decrepit socialist mid-European

00:03:21.860 power with lots of baguettes and they make weird, you know, commit adultery all the time. 0.99

00:03:28.180 They were still committing adultery back then. 1.00

00:03:29.660 But France at this time is the most powerful country in continental Europe.

00:03:34.580 They have the highest population of any country in Europe.

00:03:39.020 They have this incredibly rich land that's incredibly agriculturally productive.

00:03:43.860 They have this huge military.

00:03:45.780 Their cultural importance is enormous.

00:03:49.360 So, you know, everyone at this time, you may have heard, like, at this time, everyone

00:03:52.920 who mattered learned French.

00:03:54.580 If you were in a, if you went to college, you learned French.

00:03:57.480 That was the language of international diplomacy.

00:03:59.720 It was the language of international science.

00:04:01.980 So, you know, Van Franklin knew French.

00:04:04.380 The important American founders, almost all of them knew French.

00:04:09.220 And this is the center of the European cultural world.

00:04:12.940 And it had been for hundreds of years.

00:04:14.500 And it completely blows up in a five-year period.

00:04:18.820 Everything gets thrown out.

00:04:21.400 Everything gets reduced to ashes.

00:04:24.120 And so many of the ideas that take root in that are the ones we're still dealing with today.

00:04:30.960 What is it?

00:04:32.120 Oh, no.

00:04:34.880 And just to kind of paint that picture, based on what you're saying there, is that, you know, in America, we get taught that there's sort of the, there's the American Revolution.

00:04:42.660 And then the French Revolution comes afterwards, as if it was just sort of a perfunctory thing that we, you know, it was a follow on of the American Revolution.

00:04:48.880 It was always going to happen.

00:04:49.920 But, you know, in that context, you know, this is really before, quite frankly, the British Empire had even reached its apex.

00:04:57.180 And so you have this massive French Empire, massive French state, which actually would go on to expand after the Revolution.

00:05:04.440 But that's a whole other, another story.

00:05:07.220 And really, you have this sort of competition between, and it's a very longstanding competition, between the British Empire and between France, between Britain and France.

00:05:16.440 That's been going on for really centuries at this point, where Britain is vying for dominance.

00:05:22.320 But, of course, France maintains that, that central role on the continent itself.

00:05:27.380 And so we kind of have this skewed view as Americans of sort of that, well, it's all, you know, Britain was really the only part of Europe.

00:05:34.420 But that's not really true, is it?

00:05:36.500 Not remotely true.

00:05:37.580 It is France.

00:05:39.020 You know, they lost a lot of the big wars.

00:05:40.680 So they had Canada.

00:05:41.880 They had Quebec.

00:05:42.560 They lose the Seven Years' War to Britain, and they lose a lot of these colonial possessions.

00:05:47.900 So they had sort of been second fiddle to Britain in a lot of these, you know, these early world wars, if you want to call them, these colonial battles in India or in America or in the Caribbean.

00:05:59.960 And so this is what actually kind of set them on the path towards the Revolution, because England becomes the great mercantile power of the 1700s.

00:06:08.580 They are the ones who are having the early stages of the Industrial Revolution.

00:06:12.200 They're the ones with this truly global maritime commercial empire.

00:06:16.660 And France is very powerful.

00:06:17.960 It has substantially more people than Britain still.

00:06:21.760 And, but it is losing these wars and it's playing second fiddle as a result.

00:06:30.260 That's what really is important to emphasize here, is how central France and French thought was to wider European civilization.

00:06:38.960 So, you know, we're familiar with the Enlightenment.

00:06:41.180 The Enlightenment is the intellectual phenomenon of the entire 18th century.

00:06:46.140 It's what drives a lot of the American revolutionary values.

00:06:49.180 So much of that is coming out of France.

00:06:51.560 You know, Montescu, that's a French name, if you can't tell.

00:06:54.900 And Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French thinker.

00:06:57.740 All of these guys are derived, are either French themselves or dried ideas from French intellectual currents.

00:07:05.100 And what happens is, France, because of these wars with England, actually, including supporting us in the Revolution, they get into dire straits.

00:07:14.160 So despite all this Enlightenment stuff, what France has is they have what we call absolutism.

00:07:19.420 They have a principle of the king is an absolute authority over the wider country.

00:07:25.600 And it's not quite the same as saying he has absolute power, but it's sort of an ideal that the king should be very powerful.

00:07:31.920 And this isn't actually something that goes back to, you know, 10,000 BC.

00:07:36.220 It's actually kind of a recent political idea.

00:07:39.360 It's a response to a lot of the traumas of the Reformation with all the warfare that caused, all the warfare that we have in the early modern era.

00:07:48.660 And a response to this is this happens because states are weak.

00:07:51.360 And how do you make a state strong?

00:07:52.660 You have a strong monarch at the center of this.

00:07:55.160 This is what had been ruling for 200 years.

00:07:58.080 But then the premier absolutist state, France, goes into this crisis.

00:08:03.360 And their crisis is simply they're out of money.

00:08:05.260 They've borrowed too much money.

00:08:06.520 Take note about this when you look at American history, too.

00:08:10.920 They borrow too much money.

00:08:12.380 This is, by the way, kind of the overall theme, I would say, for these chronicles.

00:08:17.060 Exactly.

00:08:17.640 All of this has happened before and all of this can happen again.

00:08:21.580 So they borrow too much money.

00:08:24.120 And what this means is France has a parliament just like the UK.

00:08:29.020 But they haven't called it in, I want to say, about 150 years, maybe long.

00:08:34.640 Maybe it's like 180 years.

00:08:35.940 It's called the Estates General.

00:08:37.660 And this is the French parliament.

00:08:38.620 And you need to call it if you're going to raise new taxes.

00:08:41.800 For almost two centuries, they've gotten by without ever having to call a parliament.

00:08:46.960 This is the Estates General.

00:08:48.220 But they're out of money.

00:08:49.540 They need to raise new taxes. 0.67

00:08:50.660 So the king, Louis XVI, announces, I'm going to call an Estates General.

00:08:55.680 And anyone who has grievances, please submit them to this Estates General.

00:09:00.260 And so this is what happens.

00:09:02.320 They spend several months.

00:09:03.360 They go out to all the different regions of France.

00:09:05.880 And France is a very rural country in this time.

00:09:08.060 And people elect delegates to go to this Estates General.

00:09:14.020 And they have all sorts of ideas.

00:09:16.440 You know, we pay too much taxes.

00:09:18.160 We have too many old feudal dues. 0.84

00:09:19.940 The church is too corrupt.

00:09:21.580 The church has too much power.

00:09:24.180 You know, there's complaints about feudal lords, complaints about the church, as I just mentioned.

00:09:29.020 And they're all looking for ways to—the king just wants to raise money.

00:09:34.140 But the thing is, is that the Estates General is probably not going to give him the money he wants unless they get concessions in some way.

00:09:41.700 And this is where you first get the first kernels of things spiraling out of control.

00:09:46.520 The Estates General is divided into three bodies.

00:09:49.680 They have the first estate, the second estate, the third estate.

00:09:53.240 The first estate is the nobility.

00:09:54.880 The second estate is the church.

00:09:56.720 The third estate is everybody else.

00:09:58.840 In practical terms, it mostly represents like the bourgeoisie, like the town dwellers, businessmen who are not themselves noble.

00:10:07.060 And what happens is the third estate, because they represent a much greater proportion of France, they have this idea that we're the true representatives of France, much more so than the nobility or the church.

00:10:18.040 And so a large share of them go apart on their own, and they do this thing called the tennis court oath.

00:10:24.700 They meet in an abandoned tennis court, an indoor tennis court that the king has, and they swear an oath that we will not disperse until we get a constitution for France.

00:10:36.860 And as it happens, America is just making its constitution as all of this is happening.

00:10:42.180 And so this is where it begins, and I don't want to burden everyone with details, but what's so interesting about the French Revolution is it very relentlessly grinds forward.

00:10:56.320 It starts off, the early ideas are things like, well, we have this hereditary nobility, we should get rid of that, because it's pointless.

00:11:04.720 And this is not – it's a radical idea, but it's not as radical as people think.

00:11:10.420 Like, it was a mainstream idea in France in the 1780s that we should just make nobility an honorific without any legal benefits that come with it.

00:11:19.540 That was something people were talking about.

00:11:20.780 It was a real thing that even the king might have done.

00:11:23.020 But once this revolution gets moving, ideas that are more and more radical just become more and more possible, where they do vote to get rid of it.

00:11:36.220 And that's kind of what you're setting the stage for.

00:11:39.260 So they have this financial crisis.

00:11:40.680 Then they set up this states general.

00:11:43.220 They eventually create – it turns into the National Assembly.

00:11:46.400 So it's set up in this way, and basically they realize that they have political power, and so because they've decided they have this political power, they also decide we're not going to give it away.

00:11:56.960 And in fact, we're going to take it away from anyone who currently has it, which eventually turns into the king.

00:12:02.860 So it's not incredibly radical at this point.

00:12:05.720 They're just sort of reforming their government, and it's somewhat peaceful for like the first couple years, right?

00:12:10.980 Exactly, and it's very important to understand how it can start pretty reasonable, and it starts to spiral out of control as like more reasonable actors either get shoved aside or flee, or people just – they get caught up in the moment itself by what seems possible.

00:12:29.000 And then eventually just the amount of bloodletting further radicalizes it.

00:12:32.980 Because most people think that it really starts with like – everybody knows, okay, Marie Antoinette, King Louis, they're getting their heads chopped off, the guillotine.

00:12:43.720 But what your point is is that it starts out with this political process, and then that eventually leads to – and I think people know this – the storming of the Bastille.

00:12:52.060 Exactly, and this is the first big event.

00:12:53.900 We just were showing it on the screen there.

00:12:56.320 The Bastille was this old prison in Paris, kind of just this castle, and it was mostly a symbol.

00:13:02.480 It was like, oh, this is this authoritarian symbol.

00:13:04.880 You could disappear into the Bastille and never be seen again.

00:13:08.020 The actual prison, there were only like – I think – I'm not even sure there were ten prisoners inside it the day people storm it.

00:13:15.500 It was very symbolic.

00:13:16.820 It's that once the – once the Estates General meets and they start talking about really radical political change, what's interesting is very similar to the George Floyd moment actually is it's like a miasma gets in the air.

00:13:31.300 Like, oh, there is a revolution going on.

00:13:33.820 And so you get turmoil in the streets of Paris, and the government of the regime was actually off in Versailles, which was about – these days you can get there on a quick metro ride.

00:13:44.340 But it's kind of like a good day's walk outside of Paris at this time.

00:13:47.680 It keeps it away from the masses.

00:13:49.360 But they're close enough to it that the mob in Paris, which is very rambunctious, starts to exert a control on events.

00:13:59.100 And this is one of the most interesting things about the French Revolution is if you put a vote to the entire country at any point of this, it almost certainly would not have endorsed what was going on.

00:14:08.000 But a very outsized role was played by the mob in Paris at many moments.

00:14:14.080 And one of these is the Bastille.

00:14:15.480 So this mob gathers outside the Bastille prison without getting too into detail.

00:14:19.740 One thing leads to another, and this mob storms the Bastille, lets out the prisoners, and they, like, lop the head off of the commander of the Bastille.

00:14:28.080 And it's just this big – it's like when they storm that police station in Minneapolis.

00:14:33.040 It's local actors who get really riled up, and they go off and do this, and people see that nothing's really done in response to this.

00:14:41.760 It's just this radical act against the government as it currently is.

00:14:45.900 Well, because it's – as you say, the actual government, the actual authorities, they get caught up in vapor lock because they have no idea what to do.

00:14:54.120 They can see – or what it seems is, though, this mob, not only is it violent, but it's also popular.

00:15:00.260 And so they're worried about moving against that popular opinion, so they go along with it.

00:15:04.520 And this is how you get Jacob Fry, and this is how you get the whole documentary of Fall of Minneapolis.

00:15:08.960 And a common narrative that a lot of historians agree is Louis XVI, he's the king, and he's just kind of a very – he's like a weak figure.

00:15:18.820 He's kind of a good husband.

00:15:20.700 He's a good dad, but he's lacking in firmness.

00:15:23.540 He doesn't really have the will to, like, crack the whip.

00:15:27.440 And so what happens is once this starts going and they start getting violent, everyone's constantly urging him, like, you need to take a firmer hand.

00:15:34.560 You need to say, like, this isn't happening.

00:15:36.400 Send in the army. 0.76

00:15:37.520 And it's always a little too late.

00:15:40.320 Or when he finally does get firm, it's just – it's too late, and it alienates everyone rather than cracking things back into line.

00:15:47.600 It's all – he just lacks the firmness when he needs to have it.

00:15:51.320 And so this is happening.

00:15:53.480 His own family members, after the Bastille gets stormed, his brother comes to him. 1.00

00:15:58.580 I think he has some stupid French title. 0.99

00:16:00.580 I won't remember it. 1.00

00:16:01.320 But his brother comes to him.

00:16:02.460 He's like, this is a revolution.

00:16:04.020 I'm getting out of the country.

00:16:05.160 And you should either do that or you should crack down.

00:16:08.420 And then he leaves.

00:16:09.180 And you start getting nobles who leave.

00:16:11.260 And this is where, again, you start seeing things start getting out of control is people who are more conservative voices leave France because they're like, this is going to go bad.

00:16:20.380 Because we think of it as the first big modern revolution.

00:16:23.800 But this was not the first revolution in Europe.

00:16:25.440 The Dutch had had a revolution just two years before that took out their – that made them actually a republic as well.

00:16:33.080 And the English, of course, had their civil war that greatly reduced the power of the monarch and made their parliament more powerful.

00:16:39.700 So when this is all happening, a lot of people think this will unfold like the English revolution because they've seen that's their most recent big revolution for them.

00:16:48.440 They would – if they had podcasts then, they'd be doing podcasts on the English revolution and how it shapes everything we do today.

00:16:55.380 But so the king lacks this firmness.

00:16:57.360 And so you just get this moment where everything starts to break.

00:17:00.060 They call it the Great Fear.

00:17:02.340 And there's just all these rumors spread in rural France that there's going – the king is going to send out his soldiers to attack random peasants and all these different – some of the nobles are in league with him.

00:17:14.640 And you just get this spasm of violence.

00:17:16.320 That's a lot like Floydapalooza.

00:17:17.680 You just have – peasants will just break into the manor houses of nobility.

00:17:22.320 They'll kill a lot of the nobles or what they often do is they burn any documents related to feudal tenure.

00:17:30.420 So, you know, you owe the lord these taxes or this sort of labor, all these old – like these old parts of French society that people are really angry about. 0.97

00:17:39.980 There's a huge spasm of violence about this.

00:17:42.780 And what the spasm of violence does is rather than getting the government to crack down against it, it causes them to cede more power to the revolutionaries.

00:17:51.200 And then you start getting things.

00:17:52.840 They really start, again, gradually going out of control.

00:17:56.820 They create this national assembly.

00:17:59.700 To jump ahead a little bit, and just because I want to make sure that we get this for time, this – I think what you're saying is this sets the stage then for the more radical factions to be able to become the ones that are most popular because they will be the ones that have this purity test.

00:18:17.180 So you get into purity spirals, and then this basically leads within a couple of years to the rise of the Jacobins, and that's really when the guillotines start going.

00:18:27.120 Today, you know, they talk about influences.

00:18:29.560 These are influences, and they're friends of mine.

00:18:33.800 Jack Prasovic.

00:18:35.320 Where's Jack?

00:18:36.280 Jack.

00:18:37.200 He's done a great job.

00:18:38.680 Oh, my God!

00:18:43.000 Exactly.

00:18:43.640 And you just get a cascade of actions.

00:18:46.560 So, for example, anti-clericalism had existed in France before.

00:18:50.100 That's hostility to established religion, the Catholic Church in this case. 0.72

00:18:54.760 And you start getting – or the government starts – they start shutting down or, like, dispersing a lot of monasteries, which are – one of the most unpopular parts about it, there's this idea that these monasteries have a ton of money and the people in them don't work.

00:19:07.920 And so I believe the Jacobin Club is actually in a confiscated abbey or – it was like a nunnery that they converted into their club.

00:19:17.240 And so the Jacobin Club is a group of relatively radical French revolutionaries who want more radical change, and they start gaining more and more momentum for the things they want.

00:19:27.760 And what stands out – you know, you'll sometimes hear revolutionaries described as wanting a year zero, like when they rip down every statue because no one is good enough for them.

00:19:36.600 And that comes from the French Revolution because one of their ideas is they literally create a year zero.

00:19:42.240 They create a revolutionary calendar where it's only – it's decimalized, like the decimal system.

00:19:47.700 So there's 10 months, and all the days are equal, and, you know, each week is 10 days.

00:19:54.660 Each month is three weeks of 10 days, and you have 10 total months, and then you just have a few extra days at the end.

00:20:01.460 And they're all going to be named after sort of – they're made-up words kind of reflecting what the month is.

00:20:08.340 So there's like a month Thermador, which comes from, you know, Thermos Hot.

00:20:11.780 So it's roughly July.

00:20:14.060 And then they – I think they have fruit to adore.

00:20:16.020 So this is kind of like your science worshiper Redditors today.

00:20:22.240 Yeah.

00:20:22.420 I mean it's like literally the exact same thing where they say, okay, we're going to get rid of religion.

00:20:27.580 And this is something that when you get taught the French Revolution in school or what I was taught, I never – you know, I just hear that it's like, you know, Thomas Jefferson was generally supportive of it.

00:20:35.680 And, you know, it kind of lasted for a while.

00:20:37.700 Guillotines, they kill the king.

00:20:39.380 They kill Marie Antoinette, and things were bad. 0.95

00:20:41.060 Then things got better, et cetera, at the end.

00:20:42.580 I didn't hear – they're shutting down churches.

00:20:45.920 They're in some cases arresting priests, arresting nuns.

00:20:49.560 Nuns are executed at one of the harshest points of this. 0.51

00:20:54.040 They're requiring loyalty oaths from priests and from nuns to, you know, there's eventually what they call the New Republic.

00:21:01.880 And then they create their own sort of state, like anti-religion religion, like a science-based religion.

00:21:09.020 This is what you're talking about.

00:21:09.800 They call it the cult of reason.

00:21:10.940 They even took – and at one point they start desecrating the cathedral of the Notre Dame itself.

00:21:16.340 Yeah, it really gets out of control.

00:21:21.200 And, you know, you mentioned the loyalty oaths.

00:21:23.420 And, again, one of the most interesting things, there's multiple moments in the revolution where they start off like pro-king, you know, kind of like actually how the American revolutionaries initially sort of say, like, our problem is with parliament, not the king.

00:21:36.720 And they would say, God save King George for the first bits of the revolution.

00:21:40.780 Same thing in France.

00:21:41.700 You have a lot of people who are pro-monarch.

00:21:44.140 And this is, again, where his weakness comes into play is much like we do these, you know, these stunts in our recent woke moments where they'll sort of surround people and be like, do you think black lives matter? 0.98

00:21:55.680 Do you think black lives matter? 1.00

00:21:57.360 They would do this to the king. 0.98

00:21:58.640 They would have this mob.

00:21:59.900 The mob would march out to Versailles and kind of stand there and say, like, we love you, king.

00:22:06.280 You know, how do you feel about the revolution?

00:22:08.380 And then the king would come out and he would do a very superficial gesture of support for the revolution.

00:22:13.780 And everyone would be like, oh, that's great.

00:22:15.280 A struggle session of the king.

00:22:16.960 And then they'd go home.

00:22:17.040 They would do a struggle session on the king.

00:22:19.100 And so he'd come out and say, like, yeah, I like the revolution.

00:22:22.020 And that would fix it for the moment.

00:22:24.420 But now the king has given his endorsement to these people.

00:22:28.660 Right.

00:22:28.940 And they come back and they want more.

00:22:31.200 And so they do this repeatedly.

00:22:32.680 And it gets scarier and scarier for him.

00:22:34.760 And then where things get really bad is rather than crack the whip, what he finally decides to do is he's like, I need to get out of France.

00:22:41.380 And he tries to flee France, but he makes a botch of it and he gets caught.

00:22:45.960 He gets caught trying to flee France.

00:22:47.720 This is about three years into the revolution.

00:22:50.900 And this is what one of the big, by the way, one of the big things that I just I just occurred to me before we move topics is that, as you say, they have the struggle sessions for BLM, just like we have the struggle sessions.

00:23:02.220 But also, like with BLM and the 2020 riots, the smashing of statues, the smashing of the iconoclasm of the entire thing.

00:23:10.280 Right.

00:23:10.480 This is what they do.

00:23:11.140 They go through churches.

00:23:12.180 They go through the cathedrals.

00:23:13.340 So we talk about how Notre Dame, you know, the burning and everyone was so upset about this recently.

00:23:18.620 I personally was very upset about that.

00:23:20.580 I think there's more to be investigated there from the current situation.

00:23:23.820 But if you go back to the French Revolution, you had the revolutionaries going in there, smashing the stained glass windows, smashing those statues, which are the kings of Israel that are on the front of it, destroying their own cathedral.

00:23:35.840 What do they turn it into?

00:23:36.840 A temple of reason.

00:23:39.960 So the idea and I guess, Blake, the question I wanted to ask you, I guess, in terms of this is philosophically.

00:23:46.700 Right.

00:23:47.560 How do they square holding these beliefs at the same time that they have to destroy everything, but at the same time, they are the ones who are being reasonable and rational?

00:23:59.060 Well, it's it's and they go even worse.

00:24:02.220 They don't even just smash windows.

00:24:03.680 They they literally desecrate.

00:24:05.560 They destroy the tombs of the French kings, like every French king for a thousand years have been buried, I think, in St.

00:24:11.580 Denis, just outside Paris.

00:24:13.240 And that's right.

00:24:14.780 A mob breaks into that, rips them open, like desecrates the bodies, throws them all everywhere.

00:24:20.200 And they do these like very wantonly destructive things.

00:24:23.660 And it's interesting.

00:24:25.720 Yeah, you bring up the question of how do they define it as reason?

00:24:28.580 And I think what's most important is when you have this cult of reason, which is really what it is, there's a huge amount of arrogance that comes with it.

00:24:37.980 That not merely like that we have reason as an ideal, but the sense that we're the only ones who embrace reason.

00:24:45.040 And that very easily becomes anyone who stands against us is against reason.

00:24:49.100 And it's sort of become it's an invitation to take everything from first principles, because as a lot of liberals say, like tradition is not reasonable.

00:24:58.200 There's there's nothing reasonable about just doing something because someone did it before.

00:25:01.600 And so it becomes a justification to, again, yeah, you go back to first principles, you can do anything completely fresh.

00:25:09.280 So you can throw out the old religion, you can throw out the old norms, you can throw out the old calendar.

00:25:15.020 Since we're operating based on reason, we can do it all completely new from scratch.

00:25:21.660 And this is, I think, what really eventually leads to the radical violence of the revolution is they start ripping away every barrier that is sort of a barrier against really wanton violence.

00:25:34.740 Because one of the traditions is just the slow movement of government.

00:25:38.640 It's your right to appeal through this old court system.

00:25:42.200 Well, since they're sweeping everything aside, they sweep aside the old organizational system of the country.

00:25:47.540 Like France was divided into these old medieval provinces.

00:25:50.660 They had things which are confusingly called parliaments, but they're actually more like a supreme court for each area.

00:25:56.380 And they're sort of they handle a lot of legal cases.

00:25:58.780 These get swept aside.

00:26:00.120 They create the departments of France, which is what they still have today.

00:26:02.840 They're all about the same size.

00:26:04.820 And they're like just they're assets of the national government.

00:26:08.840 And they create a new system with a new justice system.

00:26:12.800 And all those old rules are swept away.

00:26:16.300 And that makes it so much easier for, well, if we're doing everything completely new, what else do we want to do new?

00:26:21.680 And that just and especially after the king flees, that gives a lot of impetus to the most radical people.

00:26:27.460 And so more and more radical ideas become mainstream.

00:26:30.200 It starts off with let's make him a constitutional monarch.

00:26:33.620 And then it gets to we should be able to depose him as a monarch.

00:26:37.400 And then eventually you get to the radicals who say we should lop his head off and we should put him on trial.

00:26:44.240 He's not Louis XVI.

00:26:45.520 His name is Louis Capet.

00:26:47.160 He is a citizen of France. 0.86

00:26:48.560 And they put him on trial and they vote to lop his head off. 0.95

00:26:53.420 And once they do that.

00:26:55.520 And so they get to the point where just being a king is somehow a crime, even though he had been a king or he had been in line to be king since he was born.

00:27:05.900 And this had been the form of government.

00:27:08.180 And, you know, certainly he hadn't stolen his kingship from from anyone.

00:27:13.040 It's it's they they became so twisted in their ideology, which it isn't even really an ideology.

00:27:19.700 And when you're dealing with leftism, I say this so many times, especially to the the facts don't care about your feelings crew, is that the leftists don't operate based on facts.

00:27:30.080 Appeals to reason will never work with them.

00:27:32.760 It's a purely envy, passion, greed, jealousy, anger based argument. 0.99

00:27:40.940 These people are all extremely ugly. 0.86

00:27:43.900 They hate people who are successful. 0.99

00:27:45.660 They hate people who are good looking.

00:27:48.040 And it's it's, you know, bio Leninism, by the way, is a term that we've talked about on thought crime that plays into this and really all of these revolutionary groups across history that I think you find across the world that when it when it gets into it. 0.54

00:28:02.760 You know, this is how you get to the point where saying, no, we must kill the king and then dig up all of his ancestors and desecrate their bodies as well.

00:28:10.380 And you have homeless people like going into the palaces, these beautiful palaces of France and like just just just crapping all over the floors and everything. 0.67

00:28:17.800 And they believe that they should do it.

00:28:20.540 And again, the ideology, I think, is all just window dressing, as Mr. Ugrove says.

00:28:24.420 Yeah, the amount of just sort of wanton, fiery, like hatred of civilization is something very similar to today.

00:28:33.040 You just you destroy something because it feels good to destroy something that's beautiful or orderly.

00:28:38.300 It's chaotic impulse in repulsive people. 0.95

00:28:40.980 And notably, like a lot of the French revolutionaries are very profoundly ugly people.

00:28:48.060 There's Marat, who's this major journalist firebrand today.

00:28:52.760 He'd have a really aggravating like pro Antifa Twitter account.

00:28:56.020 He's a very weird looking fellow.

00:28:58.480 Jacques-Louis David.

00:28:59.660 He's the guy who's done all the famous paintings that you've seen in this era, including like, you know, Napoleon on the horse where he's crossing the Alps.

00:29:06.760 He did that one. 0.96

00:29:07.460 He's a very ugly guy. 0.99

00:29:08.840 It looks like very strange. 1.00

00:29:11.460 Robespierre, very ugly guy.

00:29:13.160 Not all of them, but this is a common trait. 0.94

00:29:15.460 And, you know, as you mentioned, it's that wanton destruction.

00:29:18.980 Like when they cut off the king's head, they don't just kill him and bury him.

00:29:22.900 They do everything in their power to like destroy his body.

00:29:27.280 I don't think they destroy his body, but they bury him 10 feet underground in like an unmarked grave.

00:29:31.420 And then they also destroy like all of his clothing.

00:29:34.560 They're like, there should be no relics of the king.

00:29:36.340 And so they're destroying all this other stuff associated with him.

00:29:40.260 And it really was the idea was you could not be a king.

00:29:43.220 Like when they're having this trial, there's all these arguments that say, well, he literally had no choice in this matter because he was the monarch and essentially had to, you know, he had to execute this person or he had to enforce order.

00:29:55.280 And then one of the most radical Jacobins, this guy, Louis-Antoine de Saint-Just, he's only 24 or so.

00:30:03.060 And he's a member of the National Assembly and he's part of this trial.

00:30:05.860 And he gives a speech where he basically the climax of the speech is saying, well, actually, it doesn't matter whether the king is specifically like had a choice or not.

00:30:16.920 The problem was he's the line he says is no one can reign innocently.

00:30:20.820 In other words, merely by being a monarch, you are guilty of a death penalty offense.

00:30:25.980 And that is what wins the day. 0.97

00:30:28.220 And then they lop his head off. 1.00

00:30:29.840 And the idea becomes, yeah, like all monarchs should die. 0.99

00:30:34.400 These are all being run through these things they called the people's courts.

00:30:37.520 Tell me about Robespierre and the people's courts.

00:30:39.260 They come in with an army and they make these demands.

00:31:09.260 But then their armies aren't really ready and they lose this one battle really quickly.

00:31:13.560 And they're like, oh, got it.

00:31:15.100 Got to bail.

00:31:15.700 And they retreat right away.

00:31:17.160 Worst possible thing they could have done.

00:31:18.680 You either have to invade and win or just don't bother at all.

00:31:22.080 But they do the worst thing possible.

00:31:23.500 This gives all the momentum to the radicals.

00:31:26.280 And then that Marat guy, the journalist I mentioned, he gets stabbed to death in a tub by this royalist woman who's upset because I think maybe her brother had been arrested or executed or something.

00:31:37.640 I don't remember the details, but she assassinates him.

00:31:42.720 And after this, they just go berserk.

00:31:46.060 You have mobs break into the prisons where various aristocrats and pro-royalists are.

00:31:51.440 And they just hack them to death in the prisons, hundreds of people.

00:31:55.160 And once this happens, you just do this cascade.

00:31:57.720 Yeah, they have these courts where they're essentially saying anyone who's an enemy of the revolution can be a traitor and can be executed.

00:32:05.980 And you go from this very ponderous debate over whether we should execute the king to these quick 10-minute trials where, oh, yeah, this person denounced you as a traitor to the revolution.

00:32:17.360 So now you're going to go to the guillotine.

00:32:19.700 And the rate at which this goes just gets insane where you start with a few people a day.

00:32:25.180 And by the very end of the Great Terror, as they call it, they're executing dozens of people in Paris every single day, all of them as enemies of the revolution.

00:32:33.880 And as is always the case, you know, the first people you target are not necessarily actual enemies.

00:32:39.600 It's your own political foes.

00:32:41.580 So you have the Harondins who are considered the moderates among the people who've already decided to kill the king. 1.00

00:32:48.160 So they are not really monarchists by any stretch of the imagination.

00:32:51.340 But they get denounced as traitors to the revolution because they disagree with the prevailing sentiment. 0.94

00:32:57.080 They go to the guillotine.

00:32:58.080 Well, now you've shifted the entire assembly to the left a bit.

00:33:03.500 And what does that mean?

00:33:04.820 Well, now there's a new group of people who are too conservative for everyone else.

00:33:08.400 So like the Dantonists, they're supporters of Danton, who's one of the revolutionaries.

00:33:12.480 They go to the guillotine.

00:33:14.080 And finally, you have essentially Robespierre is the only guy in charge who's the most radical guy.

00:33:20.260 And the only thing that happens is there's enough people who are just cynically political who look around and think they're going to kill all of us eventually.

00:33:28.080 We need to stop this.

00:33:29.120 And these sort of cynical centrists who aren't really ideologues at all, they just drum up charges against Robespierre and lop his head off.

00:33:37.340 And it's kind of funny how they do it.

00:33:38.880 There's a movie.

00:33:40.660 I was going to say right before that, there's that movie that I know that I know that.

00:33:46.100 And for a lot of Catholics and just anyone out there, Christians who want to see this, it's called The Martyrs of Compagnon or The Dialogues of Compagnon, where they actually take these from a nunnery.

00:33:56.180 These 16 nuns are actually taken by Robespierre because they refuse to swear the loyalty oath.

00:34:02.300 They aren't just in prison.

00:34:03.460 They're actually executed by this.

00:34:06.600 And then 10 days after the mass execution of nuns in Paris, that's – as you say, that's when the centrists go to Robespierre and they say, OK, this is going a little bit too far.

00:34:17.480 Yeah, I have a book here, which I recommend to anyone who wants to spend many hours reading this topic.

00:34:23.020 It's Citizens by Simon Schama.

00:34:25.000 Schama is a bit of a lib, but it's sort of everyone's conservative about what he knows best.

00:34:29.980 And so anyone who writes a thousand-page book on the French Revolution ends up coming away thinking these guys were completely insane.

00:34:36.120 And he has these figures here about – that I want to bring up here about, like, the rate of executions when they finally got rid of Robespierre.

00:34:44.760 And it's literally – so the month of Germinal, that's one of those fake months they came up with, they had 155 executions in Paris and 59 acquittals.

00:34:53.880 And then the next month, 354.

00:34:57.240 Then the next month, Prairial, 509 executions.

00:35:01.180 Then in Messador, 796 executions.

00:35:04.500 And then in just the first nine days of Thermador, so one-third of a month, they have 342 executions.

00:35:11.700 So on pace for more than 1,000 that month when they finally are like, this is too far.

00:35:16.640 And they just – they take Robespierre, and Robespierre was apparently actually, to his credit, incorruptible apparently.

00:35:25.240 He was a true believer in the truest sense of the term. 0.63

00:35:27.940 But they framed him for corruption so they'd have an excuse to just chop his head off to.

00:35:32.880 And afterwards, you get this sort of – they lop off a lot of other people.

00:35:38.720 They call it the Thermadorian reaction, and they take a lot of the people who are most guilty. 0.66

00:35:42.360 And I'd say one of the most satisfying parts of this revolution is a lot of the most radical people get the end that they definitely deserve.

00:35:50.940 There were these radicals called the Hébertis.

00:35:53.060 They followed another journalist named Hébert.

00:35:55.420 And they were just – he was this guy just publishing the most bloodthirsty of all the broadsides in Paris. 1.00

00:36:02.120 You know, kill these people, kill these people. 0.99

00:36:03.920 You just imagine the most repugnant Twitter antifas you can imagine. 1.00

00:36:07.680 And these guys all get rounded up, and they get shoved into a prison.

00:36:10.740 And they're in the same prison as a lot of royalists at this time.

00:36:15.020 And the royalists leave these memoirs, and Hébert himself is, like, sobbing because he's having a huge meltdown and is screaming against the bars and just having no dignity whatsoever.

00:36:26.060 And a huge number of royalists and relative conservatives to their – yeah, like Louis XVI, whatever else is – he was not a great ruler, but he dies with tremendous dignity.

00:36:36.700 He, you know, he's with a priest, and the priest is telling him, he's like, you know, remember, you are suffering like Christ suffered.

00:36:43.200 And Christ forgave his tormentors.

00:36:45.080 And so he's like, you know, forgive them, Father.

00:36:46.640 They do not know what they are doing. 0.99

00:36:48.620 And, you know, he goes calmly to the guillotine, and they chop his head off.

00:36:51.500 And when Hébert goes to the guillotine, he's sobbing and screaming and kicking, and they have to, like, shove him in there.

00:36:57.680 And then they lop his head off, and these people who hate him come, and they're kicking his head like a soccer ball.

00:37:02.300 And he just – it's really fun to read about because it's – you know, these people were horrible.

00:37:07.300 They absolutely deserved what they got.

00:37:09.780 And it's a lot like, you know, when you read about these radical leftists who get, you know, murdered by gangbangers in these cities after they endorsed all this radical stuff.

00:37:17.960 Like, you know, it's not good that they died overall, but at the same time, if anyone is going to suffer, it should be the people who, you know, brought all on this.

00:37:26.920 Like, you thirsted for blood, so drink your fill.

00:37:31.760 So how does it all – and I think people know, of course, there's the new movie, terrible movie, but the new movie is out on Napoleon where, you know, they certainly – you got to mention it, man.

00:37:41.600 I got to mention it.

00:37:42.340 We're not going to get into it here, but, you know, they do show Marie Antoinette.

00:37:46.360 But I think that's probably the best part of the movie is sort of that – those beginning scenes.

00:37:51.160 And then it gets up to when Napoleon sort of quells this local uprising within Paris and, you know, it's famously referred to as the whiff of grapeshot.

00:38:01.580 And that's kind of referred to as the end of the revolution.

00:38:04.760 Then we know that eventually Napoleon takes power.

00:38:07.800 But what is that process that goes from the excesses of the revolution, the guillotines, and then eventually to Napoleon taking power?

00:38:16.360 Well, this is one of the most interesting things about the revolution is overall I would say it is a bad event.

00:38:23.780 A huge number of people die.

00:38:25.300 A huge amount of stuff is destroyed irrevocably.

00:38:28.760 And I don't think most of it was necessary.

00:38:30.980 But it does make some changes that overall were probably necessary.

00:38:36.980 I think they could have just happened without the revolution.

00:38:39.180 Like I said, they could have abolished the nobility without needing to kill thousands of people.

00:38:44.800 It might have taken a decade longer than it did.

00:38:47.480 But they could have done it.

00:38:48.360 And there was discussions of doing it.

00:38:50.080 But what you get is you have – Robespierre gets thrown out.

00:38:53.300 You have these moderate sort of cynical politicians take over.

00:38:57.440 And their idea is mostly just keep a hang on power.

00:39:01.300 But they realized a lot of what the revolution did was pretty popular.

00:39:05.000 It got rid of all the feudal obligations.

00:39:06.800 So it really – it flattened out French society in a way a lot of us would find agreeable. 1.00

00:39:11.920 Like before in the Ancien regime, a huge amount of things were actually only available to people who were from this tiny sliver of aristocratic families that were about half a percent of the population.

00:39:23.200 This is why Napoleon was somewhat on board with this.

00:39:25.740 He was from a lower level of nobility in this isolated province of Corsica.

00:39:30.480 So he could have never risen to be this general right away like he did under the revolution.

00:39:35.200 A ton of people joined with the revolution for this reason.

00:39:38.840 And so there's a lot of stuff that they do want to keep around from the revolution even after Robespierre gets his head lopped off.

00:39:47.120 And so this is what creates the opportunity, like this negotiating process is what parts of the revolution are we going to keep and what are we going to throw out?

00:39:55.340 And Napoleon himself takes advantage of this.

00:39:58.400 So, you know, he claws his way to the top.

00:40:01.520 He becomes an important general in the directory.

00:40:03.620 Then there's kind of this coup d'etat that – there's nothing ideological about it.

00:40:07.420 They just – they want to get rid of the directory and have power themselves.

00:40:10.360 So Napoleon makes himself first consul.

00:40:12.700 And how does he secure his power?

00:40:14.200 They don't show this in the movie.

00:40:15.240 But what he does is he says, hey, I know a lot of you like the Catholic Church.

00:40:19.900 I'm going to, you know, re-legalize the Catholic Church. 0.89

00:40:23.060 And it's going to be on way more of a leash than it was before.

00:40:26.180 It's going to be weakened.

00:40:27.540 But we're not going to be shooting priests in the head.

00:40:29.900 We're not going to be burning churches down. 0.98

00:40:31.760 We're not going to be, you know, beheading nuns.

00:40:34.280 We're going to allow the church to be a part of French life again.

00:40:38.500 And once he's willing to do that, like, this greatly moderates the French Revolution.

00:40:43.780 And you start getting a lot of people who fled overseas come back to France.

00:40:48.060 They're willing to participate in French life again.

00:40:51.140 And you get other changes.

00:40:54.540 I mean, Napoleon's civil code that he does even after he tumbles from power, that remains the legal code of France.

00:41:00.640 Everyone wants to keep it around.

00:41:02.380 And the departments they create, that stays the way France is organized instead of the old provinces.

00:41:09.020 There's no one brings back feudalism.

00:41:16.060 There's a huge amount of change that comes out of the revolution.

00:41:20.280 And that's what the defenders of it would say it was good for, is all of these, they would say it brought about necessary historical change.

00:41:26.920 And I think as conservatives, what we recognize is, well, Britain managed to do all of these things without killing nearly as many people.

00:41:35.520 And America managed to do these things without killing nearly as many people.

00:41:38.500 And so, right, so part of it is, you know, as you say, the American War of Independence was a war of independence.

00:41:47.780 But when you add on the Constitution and the Declaration, which both really bear so many of these, so many of their ideas within that wellspring of the Reformation, that having these ideals put forward, having them then enshrined in these documents, and then obviously having that enforced.

00:42:04.520 And, you know, obviously we can argue as to how enforced those are today in daily life.

00:42:09.900 There at least, you know, is some legal basis for them after these reforms.

00:42:14.140 But to your point, it's not necessarily something that had to be done through so much violence and so much anger.

00:42:21.460 And to the point, England still has a, right now has a king.

00:42:26.660 They retained their monarchy without going, and they have their palaces, they have the royals, and they were able to do all this without executing all of them.

00:42:35.500 Yeah, exactly.

00:42:36.700 It's, it's a, the sad thing about the French Revolution is a huge amount of people die, and you just come away thinking, was any of that really necessary?

00:42:45.840 Or was it just this spasm of bloodletting because the wrong people were given too much power for too long?

00:42:53.040 And I think that's probably the biggest takeaway from it, is that you don't need this dramatic explosion of violence to get what you want.

00:43:01.520 And the French pretty quickly realized this, is all the people who are the most psychopathic, they kill a ton of people, and then they die themselves. 1.00

00:43:09.640 And then everyone looks around and says, well, that, that sucked.

00:43:12.820 And they end up, like, they literally have a monarchy again within 15 years.

00:43:18.360 And this is kind of what would, you know, let's, let's say, you know, the wokest of the woke or the most radical, you know, left-wingers get in charge today.

00:43:27.620 This is basically how it would play out, isn't it?

00:43:30.540 It's how it did play out.

00:43:31.780 I mean, we had this giant George Floyd-a-palooza, and then we have, you know, the murder rate goes up 50%, and we have this wanton destruction.

00:43:40.520 All these cities become a mess.

00:43:41.720 We have tent cities everywhere. 1.00

00:43:43.280 And then now you have a lot of Democrats look around and think, wow, wait, that was stupid. 1.00

00:43:47.360 We did all of this insane stuff. 1.00

00:43:49.120 And they're just going to try to undo it.

00:43:51.640 And I would say, actually, I'd say the key difference is I conceded that some changes of the French Revolution were good.

00:43:57.800 Like, I think getting rid of feudalism was probably desirable.

00:44:01.020 I don't think any of the changes we got in the George Floyd Revolution were worth it.

00:44:04.700 The premises of that were so insane.

00:44:06.940 It was that the police were racist, and we should get rid of them, and that meritocracy is bad, and we should get rid of it.

00:44:14.080 And, you know, in a sort of ironic way.

00:44:16.940 And also, like, we should get rid of equality of races and create this elaborate racial hierarchy.

00:44:21.400 You could actually say that the Floyd Revolution is a dark inverse of the French Revolution.

00:44:27.100 The French Revolution, for its many flaws, did have, you know, equality as a premise.

00:44:32.240 It had meritocracy as a premise.

00:44:34.160 And now we get revolutions that want to not even have those things.

00:44:38.920 They want to get rid of them.

00:44:41.060 Right.

00:44:41.520 So you're taking whatever is the basis of, like, the lowest rung of society and then saying that should be the highest rung of society, which, by the way, is, you know,

00:44:50.840 and last year we talked about how that's something that Mao actually tried to put into practice,

00:44:55.020 where he would go into these factories, kill the foreman, obviously kill the owners,

00:45:00.920 and then he would take whoever was, like, the lowest-ranking guy in that factory and make him the new manager.

00:45:07.320 And you had CCP cadres that were doing this all over the country of China and saying that, well, clearly the person who, you know,

00:45:14.240 because, you know, he is the day laborer knows better how to run this factory than the manager or the foreman or the director.

00:45:22.800 And then, you know, within, you know, within less than a decade, within a couple of years, you get the great leap forward,

00:45:30.920 which, of course, turns into this massive famine and everybody's dying because these people have no idea how to run anything.

00:45:36.800 And Chairman Mao's running around saying, oh, we need more, you know, we need more plows for the military,

00:45:42.720 so you have to melt all your iron and your steel, that we're worried about the, you know, the birds are a problem,

00:45:50.600 so go kill all the birds and the locusts and everything.

00:45:53.260 It's just a complete abject disaster, and it leads to 50 million people dying, the outbreak of cannibalism, etc., etc. 0.94

00:46:01.900 So I guess the idea is that when you put these crazy people in charge, that there isn't anything on the back end of it.

00:46:09.280 And this is why I always tell people, don't even bother arguing with Marxists or with, like, these hardcore leftists,

00:46:15.800 because they have, they, at their basis, they have no idea what they're talking about.

00:46:21.100 Yeah, there's a line a, like, a Polish historian wrote about communism.

00:46:26.720 He wrote a book called, I don't remember his name, but there's a book called Main Currents of Marxism,

00:46:30.780 and one of the things he said is that mendacity is the heart of Marxism,

00:46:36.560 that it is essentially a movement premised in, you know, whatever arguments it makes,

00:46:42.060 it is rooted in the resentments and anger of the people in it,

00:46:46.100 that they feel that, you know, they'll claim that they're agitating for the equality of all men,

00:46:51.220 but really they're bitter that they themselves are not superior to others, and this is how they feel it.

00:46:55.940 And definitely the French Revolution fits into that prototype.

00:47:01.100 You have these very ugly, violent people on the inside who dress things up as the cult of reason,

00:47:07.920 and reason is their excuse for killing vast numbers of people and doing these enormously destructive things,

00:47:16.860 and, you know, it's a logical fallacy to say that doing that's bad.

00:47:21.000 You're just making an appeal to emotion.

00:47:24.280 Do you have a sword for that?

00:47:25.720 Do you have a sword for that?

00:47:26.520 Do I have a sword for that?

00:47:27.260 Yeah, we're gonna, yeah.

00:47:28.920 This is, God, an entire revolution done by Redditors.

00:47:32.700 Oh, man.

00:47:34.320 By the way, I just looked that up.

00:47:35.580 That's Ležek Kolakovsky.

00:47:38.060 Ležek Kolakovsky.

00:47:38.420 Oh, yes.

00:47:39.160 Kolakovsky.

00:47:39.600 Thank you.

00:47:40.020 I'm glad I got it well and good enough for you to look it up.

00:47:43.240 Yeah, Kolakovsky.

00:47:45.060 Ležek Kolakovsky.

00:47:45.860 I'm gonna check that out.

00:47:47.020 We're down to our very last minute, folks.

00:47:50.320 We've been talking to Blake Neff.

00:47:51.860 This is Chronicles of the Revolution.

00:47:54.820 He's walking us through this better, and we're gonna educate ourselves.

00:47:58.360 We're gonna take some time over this Christmas season, over the holidays, between now and New Year's,

00:48:03.160 to dig into these revolutionary movements.

00:48:06.360 Because guess what, folks?

00:48:07.640 It isn't the first time that we've lived through this.

00:48:10.720 These ideas have been around forever.

00:48:12.660 It is the politics of resentment.

00:48:14.520 It is greed.

00:48:15.640 It is pride.

00:48:16.740 It is envy.

00:48:18.280 It's endemic to human nature.

00:48:19.920 It's been something that's been with humans since the fall, since the garden.

00:48:24.200 It is part of our nature.

00:48:26.100 So whether you call it the Jacobins, whether you call it the Marxists, whatever name it takes,

00:48:32.120 or whether you call it the response to systemic racism, whether you call it Black Lives Matter,

00:48:38.460 it is always the same ideas, and it will always result in the same thing.

00:48:44.000 Ladies and gentlemen, you have my permission to lay ashore.

00:48:47.040 Live from Studio 6B with Damon Roberts.

00:49:00.900 Has nothing to do with minorities.

00:49:03.100 Has everything to do with power.

00:49:05.320 Power Grab.

00:49:06.380 Every weekday at 8 p.m. Eastern.

Human Events Daily with Jack Posobiec - December 26, 2023

EPISODE 634： CHRONICLES OF THE REVOLUTION — THE FRENCH TERROR

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