LETTER: Left-wing Democrats and the Jacobins

Victor Davis Hanson’s commentary (May 10 Review-Journal) equating our extremist near Democrats and their wealthiest, astir privileged supporters to the Jacobins of the French Revolution was enlightening. The missing nexus successful this equation is that Maximilien Robespierre, a subordinate of the French elite, 1 of the astir influential figures of the Revolution and advocator of the Reign of Terror, ended up getting his ain caput chopped disconnected for his progressivism.