How our new Democratic Party is really a blast from the Jacobin past

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 workweek, disability insurance and Social Security were their trademarks — achieved by growing government bureaucracies and continually raising taxes.Still, many Democrats were socially conservative.They deplored antisemitism.Party officials had rejected their own segregationists to champion civil rights.Presidents like Franklin D.Roosevelt, Harry Truman and John F.

Kennedy all supported strong defense and military deterrence.All that is now passé.The only vestigial Democrat left in Congress is Pennsylvania Sen.John Fetterman, roundly despised by Democratic 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 would be political toast; today, he can become the party’s nominee for the Maine Senate race.That means the current Democratic Party is no longer truly democratic at all.Its new spirit and methods resemble those of the radical Jacobin Party of the French Revolution.Jacobinism 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 million to 12 million illegal aliens as a future proletariat constituency.Today’s Jacobins would now ridicule as “fascist” and “racist” Bill Clinton’s 1990s calls for secure borders and an end to illegal immigration.The most recent nihilist developments in American society can be attributed to these Jacobin “Democrats”: biological men competing in women’s sports, critical legal theory normalizing cashless bail, race-based reparations, violent f...