Will Trump End Up Being the “Robespierre” of the MAGA Mob?

The Frenchman Robespierre advocated “Liberty, Equality, Fraternity” for the French lower classes in 1789 (and against the elitist Royalty and Upper Classes). Unfortunately, the lower classes became a mob that took off Robespierre’s head after he achieved their goals. The MAGA mob may ultimately be less interested in Anti-Vax, Anti-Abortion, and squelching minority rights than plundering the wealth of “elites” and getting revenge, gobbling up even the Trumpster. With apologies to the 1935 Sinclair Lewis book “It Can’t Happen Here”, this is how it may happen.

Robespierre had more noble ideals than Donald Trump. Nevertheless, he helped organize a mob that eventually destroyed its leader (Robespierre himself, by guillotine in 1794 during the “Reign of Terror”). Could the MAGA mob that Trump helped create, eventually destroy him?

Robespierre and the French Revolution: Most currently see Donald Trump as an emerging Hitler. I would say he’s more of an emerging Franco (who had the high complicity of the Catholic Church), or even poor Robespierre (who was destroyed by the movement he helped create). Briefly, Robespierre was born in 1758, and in 1792 became a leader of the Montagnards, a radical left-wing faction seeking large changes in the French government (remember here that “right” and “left” labels have had little consistency in history when applied to class wars). Robespierre was initially trying to work within the system, and could be compared to our Thomas Jefferson. The initial goals of the Montagnards was to assure voting rights for all French citizens, and many of their ideals were based upon the recent…