I love Twitchy. It's a regular stop on my daily cruise through the world wide web. Every day there are leftists proudly tweeting their idiocy to the whole world. Twitchy collects the best of these brainless emissions and highlights them for the rest of us to enjoy. But this post from earlier today left me smh, as the kids say:
"July 14 is Bastille Day, the French national holiday that celebrates the beginning of republican democracy in France and the end of tyrannical rule."
I don't know if the French actually believe this, but I think we in this country should be clear about the French Revolution. The storming of the Bastille did not usher in "the beginning of republican democracy in France and the end of tyrannical rule." Bastille Day was followed by the Terror, Bonaparte and the Bourbon Restoration, not the end of tyranny. To the extent the French Revolution resulted in democracy, it certainly wasn't a republican democracy as envisaged by the leaders of the American Revolution and the framers of the Constitution. The French Revolution devolved quickly into a mobocracy, embodying all the worst characteristics of democracy that the framers endeavored to forestall.f
The writers at Twitchy should choose their words more carefully, particularly when taking Andrea Mitchell to task for her historical illiteracy.
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