July 12, 2022
Victor Davis Hanson: Our New Antoinettes
“Marie Antoinette, the beheaded wife of the beheaded French Bourbon King Charles Louis XVI, did not really say ‘Let them cake’…
But in the short time that the French Revolution became utterly unhinged, toxic, and nihilistic, she became nonetheless iconic as an out-of-touch elite who had lived in a make-believe world at Versailles, without a clue (or care?) about the ordeal of the masses.
Rather than worry about the drudgery of the French peasant, Marie dressed up as one.
And she roamed about in her idyllic faux peasant ‘farm’ at the Hameau de la Reine, near the palace at Versailles.
Apparently, during these brief rustic interludes, Marie felt that the more she might act out a sort of aristocratic peasant life, the more she could find simplicity and escape the drama of court life, but without the real-life, crushing poverty of the poor.
The modern left-wing elite are becoming our version of Antoinettes.”
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