Liberté, Egalité, Hostilité – Do America’s Political Battles Have Their Roots In 1789?

Garry Gutting argues that “we have never gotten over the French Revolution. The revolution introduced the basic liberal idea that government must be fundamentally democratic … We all, in principle, share in the power to govern ourselves. But this idea led (or, at least, was feared to lead) to a much more radical one: that everyone should have an equal share in power.”