How American Progressives Became French Jacobins

FTA: The 18th-century political concepts invoked by both the American revolutionaries of 1776 and the French revolutionaries of 1789 were the same: popular sovereignty, which includes the collective right of a sovereign people to depose its government and install a new one, and universal human rights.

Except the American Revolution did it via conventional war methods, whereas the French simply killed off (canceled) anyone they didn't like AND turned the process into a form of public entertainment. THAT's the similarity I see between the French Revolution and today's progressives.

How American Progressives Became French Jacobins

FTA: The 18th-century political concepts invoked by both the American revolutionaries of 1776 and the French revolutionaries of 1789 were the same: popular sovereignty, which includes the collective right of a sovereign people to depose its government and install a new one, and universal human rights.

Except the American Revolution did it via conventional war methods, whereas the French simply killed off anyone they didn't like AND turned the process into a form of public entertainment. THAT's the similarity I see between the French Revolution and today's progressives.