Tea at Trianon: A Sad Day for America: When the Left’s Madness Became the Mainstream

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

Thursday, November 6, 2025

A Sad Day for America: When the Left’s Madness Became the Mainstream

From Direct Line News:

Today is one of those days when you wake up, look at the news, and feel the weight of history pressing down on your chest. New York City, a beacon once known for grit, freedom, and unshakable energy, just elected a communist as mayor. Not a progressive, not a socialist, trying to soften the edges of their ideology, but an outright communist. Across the river, New Jersey re-elected a man who can’t seem to win an election without a suspicious cloud of “extra ballots.” And down south in Virginia, voters handed the keys of the lieutenant governor’s office to a radical Muslim ideologue who believes America is the problem, not the answer. Add to that a crooked attorney general and a woman who sees no issue with men in women’s locker rooms, and you’ve got yourself a trifecta of moral collapse.
Let’s not sugarcoat this: it’s a sad day in America.
New York: The Fall of a Great City
New York was once the city that defined the American dream. The Statue of Liberty stood for hope and opportunity. But tonight, Lady Liberty is weeping. The voters handed power to a man who openly despises capitalism, the very system that built those skyscrapers and gave millions a shot at a better life. He calls it “reimagining fairness.” I call it dismantling freedom.
What happens next is predictable. Crime will rise. Taxes will soar. Businesses will leave. The same people who chant “tax the rich” will soon realize that the rich have moving trucks on standby. The rest of the working people, families, and retirees will be left behind to pay for the utopian fantasies of a Marxist mayor who believes government should control every aspect of your life.
You can’t have prosperity without freedom. And you can’t have freedom when you let communists run your city. (Read more.)