(Source: The Heritage Foundation) While tyranny has existed in all eras, modern democracies now face a millenarian version that seeks to impose by revolutionary force a monolithic collective in which all individual liberties will be submerged. Beginning with the Jacobin Terror of 1793, it has continued through Bolshevism, Nazism, Maoism, the Khmer Rouge, and today's international Jihad. Terrorists are tyrants in waiting. They are not motivated by poverty or lack of opportunity, but by the vision of a coming collectivist utopia that will annihilate the West. Before democracies can fight tyranny effectively, they have to name it for what it is and understand what drives its adherents. Across...
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