Napoleon is to monarchism what Biden is to Catholicism

A heretic. Nothing more. It's not that I don't believe that a monarchy can't be governed by an irreligious person. Many have, and yet they are still accountable to a higher power (the Church, state religion, etc.). So I do not use this accusation of heresy in reference to Napoleon Bonaparte as a way to saying that "he wasn't a true monarchist because only such-and-such form of monarchism is acceptable to me!" I use this charge of heresy because Napoleon Bonaparte was simply not a monarchist. He used the Crown to his advantage. He made a mockery of the monarchial imagery. He didn't have any values to monarchism whatsoever.

I was asked by another monarchist friend of mine a while back in regards to Napoleon Bonaparte if I see him as a monarchist or not. I said that I really don't see him as much of a monarchist. I see him riding out from the rubble of the French Revolution which was a severely anti-monarchist and populist movement to sit on a throne which he mocked. I see Napoleon Bonaparte as a fascist who lived his life in total opposition to monarchism and made a mockery of the image of the Crown in the same way a feminist theologian dolls the three angels up as women and makes them a mockery of the Icon of the Holy Trinity Visiting Abraham. That is what Napoleon Bonaparte is. There is massive evidence to support this claim too.

Bakunin states of the French Revolution, "nothing was missing in this new governmental machine, not even a Supreme Being with a state worship. This machinery waited only for a clever engineer to show to the world all the capabilities of oppression with which it had been furnished by its rash designers...and then Napoleon I appeared on the scene." (in Liberty or Equality, 50) Erik Ritter von Kuehnelt-Leddihn comments further that it was Napoleon who fueled a nationalistic movement of collective hatred toward Britain, "her manners, customs, literature and constitution" (59). Napoleon was more driven by a populist fetish that had placed him in power than by an admiration and respect for the monarchy.

Kuehnelt-Leddihn notes that many authors have been able to successfully argue that Bonapartism, the political philosophy associated with Napoleon I, is "entire compatible with formal democracy" (61). Even John Adams praised the democracy of Napoleon and all of his generals. Edmund Burke wrote that "[i]n the weakness of one type of authority...the officers of the army will remain mutinous and full of faction, until some popular general...shall draw the eyes of all men upon himself." (61) If it cannot be contested that Bonapartism was antithetical to a monarchial state, then how could Napoleon doll himself up as a monarch? He did it in mockery. He valued the popular approval that was given to him.

But even more so than any of that, Napoleon never favored monarchies in the world. The wars that he started and forged, The Napoleonic Wars, were deliberately waged against monarchs and he aided democratic republican forms of government. He terrorized the Ottoman Empire. He crashed through the Austrian-Hungarian Empire. He encroached upon Tsarist Russia. He attempted to barge into Britain before being stopped at Waterloo. He overthrew the Papal States and held the Pope as his slave. He lent his support for America in the U.S. War of 1812 because they were fighting the British. Napoleon in all of his acts opposed monarchy and traditional structures of government. Napoleon savored the populism of the French Revolution. The monarchy was nothing more than an image for him to mock.

And Joe Biden does that with Catholicism. He puts on a show of going to Mass when it's convenient for him. He complains when a priest refuses him the body of Christ for his heresies. He puts an ad on the air talking about his "Catholic faith". He throws around "God" and "theological talk" to make himself appear more pleasing to Christians, especially Catholic. But he's not. He detests it all. He detests the Catholic faith and he repudiates it. As a civil servant, it's his duty to enact his Catholic faith in politics. Your Catholic faith is not a private matter. But he embraces abortion, he embraces gay marriage, he embraces transgender theory, he adores the Black Lives Matter movement and their refusal to reconcile and heal racial divisions. He is an open heretic to the Catholic faith.

Napoleon Bonarte and Joe Biden aren't much different from each other. Napoleon Bonaparte masquerades as an Emperor. Puts on royal robes. Walks around with a crown. Dolls himself up as the monarch of France. But he knows its just a show. He actively repudiates monarchism. He lavishes in the popularity of his movement. He sheds the blood of monarchisms and their civilians. He abuses monarchs and cheats them into giving them power. He takes advantage of his political enemies in order to make himself more powerful. Monarchists ought not to embrace Napoleon Bonaparte. They ought to excommunicate Napoleon Bonaparte and decry Bonapartism as the democratic-republican heresy that it is.