Amanda Scheidler

“France, at first glance, appeared at once more optimistic and far more pessimistic. The French revolutionaries could not just announce to the world, as America effectively did, that it was a commercial republic separated by an ocean from its former monarch. Monarchy and aristocracy were deeply rooted in every aspect of French society and would not easily be removed. The French revolutionaries, who should perhaps have compromised and remained, as France had briefly been, a constitutional monarchy, decided to tear out the old regime root and branch. Monarchs, aristocrats, their sympathizers, anyone suspected of sympathizing with them, and, in time, any among the revolutionaries who too loudly questioned the direction of the revolution, could be sentenced to death by guillotine.”
― Charlie Kirk, The MAGA Doctrine: The Only Ideas That Will Win the Future