Biden Awards Participation Trophies to Failed Establishment

In theory, the beheading of a king and queen should trigger some sober reflections in the ruling class. But after Louis XIV and Marie Antoinette were famously guillotined in 1793, the surviving members of the House of Bourbon and their most fervent supporters were still adamantly committed to reviving to the same arrogant autocracy that provoked the French Revolution in the first place.