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https://whynow.dumka.us/2019/07/14/happy-bastille-day-15/ On-line Opinion Magazine...OK, it's a blog Mon, 15 Jul 2019 00:15:38 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://whynow.dumka.us/2019/07/14/happy-bastille-day-15/comment-page-1/#comment-88660 Mon, 15 Jul 2019 00:15:38 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/?p=43365#comment-88660 The reaction to the French Revolution was one of the major ideological schisms in the American proto-political parties. The French aristocracy did help out, but they were a nasty piece of work. Alas the follow-on government learned how to govern from the worse of the lot.

]]> https://whynow.dumka.us/2019/07/14/happy-bastille-day-15/comment-page-1/#comment-88659 Sun, 14 Jul 2019 19:59:04 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/?p=43365#comment-88659 The French Revolution had our founding fathers *very* conflicted. On the one hand, the regime being overthrown had helped them win independence from England, so there was a notion that maybe the overthrow of a friendly regime was not a good thing. On the other hand, revolution! The Federalists weren’t fond of the whole French Revolution thing, while the Democratic-Republicans were fervent admirers of the revolution. Until it started beheading mass numbers of people. That sort of soured Americans on the thing.

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