ON JOHN BROWN, THEN AND NOW: The old abolitionist fanatic who raided the federal armory at Harper’s Ferry, Virginia, in 1859 in hopes of inciting a slave rebellion across the South is enjoying something of a revival amid reports of the “John Brown Club” becoming active at Georgetown University and other campuses, according to The Federalist’s John Daniel Davidson.

Davidson’s excellent essay provides a useful introduction to John Brown as analogy to the Tyler Robinsons, Jonathan Jahns and other contemporary Radical Leftists taking up arms against ICE, Trump, the police, and everything else associated with America.

What Davidson misses, though, is that the Brown analogy doesn’t end with merely taking up a bolt-action rifle and killing Charlie Kirk, or an illegal alien sitting in an ICE van in Dallas.

No, as I explained in detail a couple of years ago in this PJ Media column, Brown was a thorough-going revolutionary in search of dictatorial powers he viewed as required to carry out his fundamental remaking of American society.

Man, I wish I had finished that doctoral dissertation entitled “John Brown and Gnostic Millenarianism in the American Political Regime”!