Tea at Trianon: Trump The Dictator?

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

Saturday, March 30, 2024

Trump The Dictator?

From The Easton Gazette:

It was not the first time I had heard Trump called a “dictator” but it still mystifies me how anyone could nourish such a notion. Dictators rule without the intervention of a Supreme Court or an elected legislative body. Of all recent presidents, Trump was careful to stay within the limits of the Constitution, in spite of non-stop false accusations of wrong-doing, all of which came to nothing. He tried to work with Congress. The fact that people with more access to more news than ever before in history have so little understanding and awareness of current events, but instead believe Leftist propaganda, alarms me just about more than anything the puppet referred to as President Biden does or says. When people are fed false information, then they vote based upon what they think is real, whether it is or not. We forget that having a free press is unique in the history of nations; most countries, even when they had a press, had censorship. Those who deliberately spread false information are abusing a most precious freedom. We should never take our freedoms for granted, because the moment they are taken for granted, they are as good as lost. (Read more.)