Tea at Trianon: Deplorables Strike Back

John Wilson Croker on Marie-Antoinette

"We have followed the history of Marie Antoinette with the greatest diligence and scrupulosity. We have lived in those times. We have talked with some of her friends and some of her enemies; we have read, certainly not all, but hundreds of the libels written against her; and we have, in short, examined her life with– if we may be allowed to say so of ourselves– something of the accuracy of contemporaries, the diligence of inquirers, and the impartiality of historians, all combined; and we feel it our duty to declare, in as a solemn a manner as literature admits of, our well-matured opinion that every reproach against the morals of the queen was a gross calumny– that she was, as we have said, one of the purest of human beings."

~from History of the Guillotine by John Wilson Croker, 1844

Edmund Burke on Marie-Antoinette

"It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely there never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she had just begun to move in, glittering like a morning star full of life and splendor and joy. Oh, what a revolution....Little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fall upon her, in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honor and of cavaliers! I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards, to avenge even a look which threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone; that of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded...."

~Edmund Burke, October 1790

Sunday, November 13, 2016

Deplorables Strike Back

From Church Militant:

A woman who has championed child murder (even in its most gruesome and obvious form, late-term abortion) and a radical feminism that has deeply corroded authentic masculinity and wreaked havoc on the family, who has been supportive of every modern evil, colluded with every government agency imaginable to cover up her serious crimes, sneakily cooperated with the national media to ensure all her secret dealings remain secret, perjured herself repeatedly before Congress, lied to the FBI during questioning, bilked hundreds of millions from foreign governments in a mafia-style, pay-for-play scheme, and exposed national security secrets by her careless and sloppy handling of them, went down to a crushing, near life-ending defeat on Tuesday.

The Clinton Dynasty has at last come to an end in the world of American politics — which is even more stunning when it is taken into account that it appeared so completely dominant just one week prior and prepared to completely ensconce the evil wrought by 40 years of Democratic Party wickedness that had been let loose on the American nation. (Read.)