There are fewer references to Robespierre now. Marx seems to have taken his place.
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Andrew Sullivan is still mad at Robespierre. And certainly lots of French revolution & guillotine references still out there.
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That's because reaction and revanchism are an aesthetic, not an ethos.
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There are indeed hints of a Reign of Terror in the air. The Red Hats fit. And someone is feeling Napoleonic. We eagerly await his Waterloo.
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Citations Needed pulls out some really good examples of this by the NYT and the Economist from the 1850’s:https://twitter.com/citationspod/status/1339259525656965120?s=21 …
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Hirschman wrote an entire book on that theme IIRC
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Had this same experience reading The Coldest War.
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