ABSTRACT
The new Jacobinism is investing the United States with a worldwide moral mission at a time of glaring moral and social troubles in America and the rest of the Western world. Idealistic-sounding neo-Jacobin rhetoric about spreading democracy and other good things to the rest of the world helped justify their ambitions and was especially appealing as it had antecedents in modern American history. There could be no better excuse for exercising American power than creating a better world for mankind. That goal created virtually unlimited opportunities for expanding the reach of the United States. Neo-Jacobin advocacy of abstract, globalistic ideas and of a concomitant expansion and concentration of political power is today common in both of the major American political parties. As neo-Jacobins are well-represented in them, their ideological universalism has a global forum and is a major factor in the centralization and homogenization of the world and in extending neo-Jacobin control.
