sansculottes
(en)
a lower-class Parisian republican in the French Revolution; an extreme republican or revolutionary
For Danton, the Jacobin, revolutionary state terror was a kind of pre-emptive action whose true aim was not revenge on the enemies but to prevent the direct ‘divine’ violence of the sans-culottes, of the people themselves. In other words, let us do what the people demand of us so that they will not do it themselves…
for a fairly low-brow cultural connection, refer to the episode of Pretty Little Liars when Mike punches Ezra despite lacking any real anger towards him because he doesn't want his father to do it
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