How the Democratic Party Really Got Its Name | Frontpage Mag

American leftists had watched enviously as French radicals imprisoned and killed anyone who stood in the way of their cause, as heads rolled from the bloody maw of “Madame Guillotine” and churches were replaced with “Temples of Reason.” At the Festival of Unity and Indivisibility, one of the holidays of the new Cult of the Supreme Being, a giant papier-mache statue of the Goddess of Nature, modeled on the Egyptian goddess Isis, had been erected.
Now it was their turn, but George Washington stood in the way.
In the National Gazette, associated with the faction that would become the Democrats, cartoons showed Washington being led to the guillotine while another entry, “A Funeral Dirge for George Washington,” put the image into words.
John Adams described how leftist riots stirred up by Genet, the envoy of the French revolutionary regime, had sent “ten thousand People in the Streets of Philadelphia, day after day, threatened to drag Washington out of his House, and effect a Revolution in the Government, or compel it to declare War in favor of the French Revolution.”
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A history of violence and murder from its very start...what a surprise (sarc).

If true, and I have zero reason to doubt the author, this is big and they haven't changed one bit in 230 some years.