Tea at Trianon: The Terrible Price America Will Pay Because Liberals Believe the Rules Don’t Apply to Them

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

Tuesday, January 27, 2026

The Terrible Price America Will Pay Because Liberals Believe the Rules Don’t Apply to Them

From Culturcidal:

You see this repeated endlessly in the way that liberals behave. They don’t see the need to have one set of standards for everyone and ALWAYS seem to have completely different standards for liberals and non-liberals.
They held the police back and allowed left-wing riots all over the country in 2020. They allow their liberal compatriots to break the law at will in places like Portland and Minneapolis. They literally support mobs tearing down statues of people it’s trendy to dislike on the Left. They support sanctuary cities and oppose deporting even rapists, pedophiles, and wife beaters who are illegal aliens because they’re a favored class on the Left. They demand an open border because too many Americans don’t support them, and so, they need to bring in new voters who will support their agenda.
In professions they dominate, they openly despise and discriminate against people who have political differences with them. Even if you argue that some of the prosecutions of Trump were legitimate, there’s no question that all the prosecutions in NYC were purely driven by politics.
Every single story in the media they control tilts in one direction or another based on what liberal narratives they’re trying to push or protect. They’ve hijacked our schools and funneled tens of billions of taxpayer dollars into funding and promoting their agenda. They support judges who rule based on politics, not the Constitution. They’re openly trying to make elections less secure to make it easier for their liberal compatriots to cheat.
When they get back in power, they’re talking about doing away with the filibuster, expanding the Supreme Court, and adding new states to pad their Senate margins, all of which are highly likely to destabilize the whole country. Of course, we also can’t forget that we just had one of the most shameful incidents in all of American history, when a liberal assassinated Charlie Kirk and millions of other liberals publicly celebrated it and declared that he deserved it for disagreeing with them. (Read more.)