Oh, yeah, I'm loving this one. Obama = Hitler, Obama = Stalin, and Obama = Phil Spector are starting to get a bit shopworn, so now we've got Obama = Robespierre, or at least so sayeth VICTOR! DAVIS! HANSON!:
Koch Bros. nightmare?
[Ill-informed summary of decades of history of two countries omitted].
French firebrands saw laws less as absolute, but instead as useful to the degree that they contributed to supposed social justice and coerced redistribution. They ended up not with a Bill of Rights and separation of powers, but instead with mass executions and Napoleonic tyranny.
[Tedious summary of Obama administration crimes (Fast and Furious, Solyndra, New Coke etc.) omitted.]
Our revolutionary inspirations are now Georges Danton, Jean-Paul Marat, and Maximilien de Robespierre, not the Founding Founders.
Now, VICTOR! DAVIS! HANSON! has three last names, so you know he's smarter than you. Plus he's studied Ancient Greece, so he's an expert on the French Revolution.
So, yeah, I've got to go Obama = Robespierre. But then, I guess Obama = Danton, according to VDH. But Danton was the enemy of Robespierre. I'm so confused!