By MIKE MAGEE
Whereas others regale within the accomplishments of quirky pommel horse specialist, Stephen Nedoroscik, from Worcester, MA, or Celine Dion’s exceptional 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 lady on the planet?” His reply was instant, “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 girls’s value to birthing, stating that “We must always give depressing, childless lefties much less management over our nation and its children…” and claimed that their selection of cats over infants had created a set of disgruntled girls 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 rigorously 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, Battle and Peace. However he might have as simply been reflecting on our two MAGA leaders and their Challenge 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 absolutely have highlighted.
In his good 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 price cautious consideration from all these involved with moral management, governance, and compliance.
On The Rise To Energy
“(The launch requires that) …previous customs and traditions are obliterated; step-by-step a gaggle of a brand new measurement 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 identify (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 point and insignificance of his opponents, the sincerity of his lies, and the good and self-confident limitedness of this man moved him to the pinnacle…the reluctance of his adversaries to combat 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 numerous diplomatic concerns…”
Fawning and Bowing to Energy
“All folks 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 reveal 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 unhealthy, however in being happy with one’s each crime, ascribing some incomprehensible supernatural which means to it – that supreme which is to information this man and the folks linked with him, is freely developed…His childishly imprudent, groundless and ignoble (actions)…depart his comrades in hassle…fully 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 supreme 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 Likelihood
“However all of a sudden, as a substitute of the probabilities and genius that to date have led him so constantly by means of 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 Closing 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 folks took for energy whereas an unseen hand was guiding him…having completed the drama and undressed the actor.”
As each Trump and Vance are studying the exhausting method, superstar in America is a double-edged sword. In an inaugural speech, prosecutor met defendant head on.
“I took on perpetrators of all types. Predators who abused girls, fraudsters who ripped off customers, cheaters who broke the principles 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 project.
Mike Magee MD is a Medical Historian and a daily THCB contributor. He’s the writer of CODE BLUE: Inside America’s Medical Industrial Complicated. (Grove/2020)
