By MIKE MAGEE
Whereas others regale within the accomplishments of quirky pommel horse specialist, Stephen Nedoroscik, from Worcester, MA, or Celine Dion’s outstanding efficiency on the closing of the Olympics Opening Ceremonies in Paris this week, I time-traveled to Paris this week on a distinct mission.
I used to be there to go to Germaine de Staël. The French author, who in 1803 tangled with Napoleon on the top of his energy and requested him, “Who’s the best girl on this planet?” His reply was rapid, “She who has borne the best variety of youngsters.” The query alone earned her an exile from Paris to Switzerland.
It referred to as to thoughts the JD Vance 2021 interview on FOX, the place he tied ladies’s value to birthing, stating that “We should always give depressing, childless lefties much less management over our nation and its youngsters…” and claimed that their alternative of cats over infants had created a group of disgruntled ladies politicians who “are depressing.”
In 1803, Germaine de Stael had the final chuckle, decamping to the bucolic Le château de Coppet on Lake Geneva in Switzerland. She spent the subsequent 10 years organizing his opposition, till fleeing to Austria, then St. Petersburg, whereas fastidiously avoiding Napoleon’s northward advancing troops. On Napoleon’s defeat, she returned to Paris in 1814.
Napoleon’s marketing campaign of terror, and supreme defeat had been additionally the topic of Leo Tolstoy’s legendary 1869 literary feat, Warfare and Peace. However he may have as simply been reflecting on our two MAGA leaders and their Undertaking 2025 sycophants a century and half later. And but, as with Germaine de Staël, they seem to have missed that Vice President Harris was born to guide, one thing Tolstoy would certainly have highlighted.
In his sensible Epilogue (p.1131), Tolstoy undresses Napoleon whereas pointing a contributory finger at an countless array of understanding followers. Written 155 years in the past, his expose’ is poignant and devastating, and value cautious consideration from all these involved with moral management, governance, and compliance.
On The Rise To Energy
“(The launch requires that) …outdated customs and traditions are obliterated; step-by-step a bunch of a brand new dimension is produced, together with new customs and traditions, and that man is ready who’s to face on the head…A person (like Trump) with out conviction, with out customs, with out traditions, with out a title (like Vance)…strikes amongst all of the events stirring up hatreds, and, with out attaching himself to any of them, is borne as much as a conspicuous place.”
Early Success
“The ignorance of his associates, the weak spot and insignificance of his opponents, the sincerity of his lies, and the sensible and self-confident limitedness of this man moved him to the top…the reluctance of his adversaries to battle his infantile boldness and self-confidence win him…glory…The shame he falls into…turns to his benefit…the very ones who can destroy his glory, don’t, for varied diplomatic concerns…”
Fawning and Bowing to Energy
“All individuals regardless of their former horror and loathing for his crimes, now acknowledge his energy, the title he has given himself, and the perfect of greatness and glory, which to all of them appears lovely and cheap….One after one other, they rush to show their non-entity to him….Not solely is he nice, however his ancestors, his brothers, his stepsons, his brothers-in-law are nice.”
Turning a Blind Eye
“The perfect of glory and greatness which consists not solely in contemplating that nothing that one does is dangerous, however in being happy with one’s each crime, ascribing some incomprehensible supernatural which means to it – that excellent which is to information this man and the individuals related with him, is freely developed…His childishly imprudent, groundless and ignoble (actions)…go away his comrades in bother…utterly intoxicated by the profitable crimes he has dedicated…”
Self-Adoration, Mobs, and Conspiracy
“He has no plan in any respect; he’s afraid of every thing…He alone, along with his excellent of glory and greatness…along with his insane self-adoration, along with his boldness in crime, along with his sincerity in mendacity – he alone can justify what’s to be carried out…He’s drawn right into a conspiracy, the aim of which is the seizure of energy, and the conspiracy is topped with success….”
The Spell is Damaged by a Reversal of Probability
“However instantly, as a substitute of the probabilities and genius that so far have led him so persistently via an unbroken collection of successes to the appointed function, there seem a numerous variety of reverse probabilities….and as a substitute of genius there seems an unexampled stupidity and baseness…”
The Remaining Act – Biden Anoints Kamala
“A countermovement is carried out…And several other years go by throughout which this man, in solitude on his island, performs a pathetic comedy earlier than himself, pettily intriguing and mendacity to justify his actions, when that justification is now not wanted, and displaying to the entire world what it was that individuals took for power whereas an unseen hand was guiding him…having completed the drama and undressed the actor.”
As each Trump and Vance are studying the exhausting means, superstar in America is a double-edged sword. In an inaugural speech, prosecutor met defendant head on.
“I took on perpetrators of every kind. Predators who abused ladies, fraudsters who ripped off customers, cheaters who broke the foundations for their very own acquire. So hear me after I say, I do know Donald Trump’s (and JD Vance’s) kind.”
Kamala Harris #understands the task.
Mike Magee MD is a Medical Historian and a daily THCB contributor. He’s the creator of CODE BLUE: Inside America’s Medical Industrial Advanced. (Grove/2020)
