The Democratic Party Is Dead, Long Live the Jacobins!

Article author: 
Victor Davis Hanson
Article publisher: 
American Greatness
Article date: 
7 May 2026
Article category: 
National News
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Today’s Democratic Party has abandoned its traditional working-class, patriotic roots and embraced a radical Jacobin ideology built on division, coercion, and political extremism.

For the past century, the agendas of the Democratic Party... professed concern for working Americans...

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...

It aims to divide the nation arbitrarily between the noble oppressed and the toxic oppressors...

The new Jacobins destroyed the southern border and welcomed in 10-12 million illegal aliens, seen as a future proletariat constituency...

In the old days, Democrats were embarrassed by their radicals... Today, left-wing bomb throwers are the Democrat Party...

Their model is not the American Founding, but the radical mandated equality - and violence - of the French Revolution.

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