National Security: Jacobins

Joe Boyles Guest Columnist There are several prominent writers, including Victor Davis Hanson, who are describing what is going on in today’s Democrat Party as the new Jacobins. In the late 18th Century, the Jacobins were a debating club in Paris, complaining about inequality and French monocracy. By 1790, the Jacobins were ascendent and spawned the French Revolution. In a couple of years, they began the Reign of Terror that saw more than 30 thousand branded as enemies of the state and c