A conversation started by RMB, regarding what might happen if Trump is re-elected:
The 2 plausible choices for the Right [are]
1) secession of blue and red states from one another, leading to a peace but
disunion or 2) Trump or some other leader of the Right goes dictator and snuffs
out the Left's rebellion with no mercy. A Pinochet type of character.
To which I suggested that Angelo Codevilla offered the
possibility of option 2) even before Trump won the election in
2016. Citing from Codevilla:
We have stepped over the threshold of a
revolution. It is difficult to imagine how we might step back, and futile to
speculate where it will end. Our ruling class’s malfeasance, combined with
insult, brought it about. Donald Trump did not cause it and is by no means its
ultimate manifestation. Regardless of who wins in 2016, this revolution’s
sentiments will grow in volume and intensity, and are sure to empower
politicians likely to make Americans nostalgic for Donald Trump’s moderation.
To which I added at the time:
For those who fear that some form of
extreme fascism is coming to the United States, they need not fear Trump; the
fear is in who (or what) comes next – win or lose for Trump.
I pray for RMB’s option 1, but the left won’t have
it. Absent this, some version of option 2 is inevitable, as there
are too many people in this country in opposition to the
insanity. In any case, a tyrannical dictator promising to restore
order always follows revolution.
Returning to the conversation started by RMB, ATL asks: “what is
really going on?” Were they just trying to get Trump to go
dictatorial and invade the cities to restore order?
Or are they just looking to use physical
intimidation to get people to accept some of their newly proposed radical policies?
Is this their vehicle for reparations? Green New Deal? Seems unlikely.
Maybe they just want to make Trump's
America look as bad as possible before the election, even if it means allowing
hooligans to burn down their own cities on their watches. That seems like a
plan likely to backfire.
A revolution has many fathers. Today’s revolution
began long ago. One could make the case for the Enlightenment as the
start; one could also make the case for what we now refer to as Cultural
Marxism and the transformation of education – both K – 12 and university – from
one that valued science and Western Civilization to one that has worked to
destroy both. We see the fruits of this labor on the streets, on our
television, in the press.
But this is too long a history to trace, and others have done it
well. Just focusing on the last few years…the condition described as
Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) has been evident for four years: Russiagate,
impeachment, anything he says about the corona, etc.
But Trump is nothing other than a manifestation of the pushback
by many against political centralization and universalist political and social
desires. Those afflicted with TDS will do anything (and this
means anything) to get rid of him and crush any hope of those who favor the
individual, the local, the national.
Speaking of those willing to
do anything…fast forward to the year 2020. When the corona lockdowns
began in March (putting 40 million or more out of work), I felt (and still feel) that the primary
driver was financial: the markets required liquidity, and a 2008-style bailout
was not politically possible. Then, the lockdown was an obvious gift
to the financial industry – and it created tremendous non-violent
backlash. So, the virus was the pretext, and something like $8 or
$10 trillion of liquidity has been added just via the Federal government and
Federal Reserve – almost instantaneously.
What has happened since then, or in addition? Not
wanting to let a crisis go to waste…the pharmaceutical industry is all in;
further tracking and monitoring is inevitable; governors, mayors, and county
commissioners are flexing their dictatorship; congress has an open door to
spend; rioters are given free reign; churches are closed.
Add in the green new deal and reparations if you like – add in
the teacher’s unions insisting that because of corona they won’t go back to
work unless charter schools are closed. None of it has to make sense
or even be connected to the original issue – they are revolutionaries.
The objective of Cultural Marxists – the destruction of science and
Western Civilization (most importantly, Christianity) – is clearly proving
successful.
All revolutionaries are happy recipients of the largess offered
by revolution. They need not have identical objectives –
revolutionaries never do, as they only agree on what they are
against. This revolution – like the French and Russian before it –
will devour its young (along with many of us). I hope to live to see
that day. I know, some will say that this is not very Christ-like of
me; just remember Revelation 19:
13 And he was clothed with a vesture dipped
in blood: and his name is called The Word of God.
14 And the armies which were in heaven
followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean.
15 And out of his mouth goeth a sharp
sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a
rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of
Almighty God.
16 And he hath on his vesture and on his
thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.
Bring it on.
Conclusion
Which comes back to
Codevilla, and a podcast from LRC just a few weeks into
Trump’s term, and from which I cite:
Hear me…you see the entire ruling class
essentially rejecting the Constitution, the American way, rejecting the
legitimacy of elections. There can be no mild response to that, and
there isn’t one. Trump’s voters want certain results and they don’t
particularly care how they get them. The ruling class wants its
power and doesn’t particularly care how it holds on to it.
Win or lose for Trump in 2020, demands for dictatorial and even
tyrannical power will rise. If Trump wins, the left will go even
more berserk and the right (and I divide left and right by where one falls,
knowingly or unknowingly, regarding natural law) will come to a point of demanding
action – or taking it individually and in small groups. If Trump
loses, the left needs no pretext for demanding dictatorial or tyrannical
power. This defines the left.
Either way, there are too many people in too many towns –
especially in what is known as “flyover country” but also in other parts of the
country – that are well capable of taking matters into their own hands by
defending their own.
The only peaceful outcome
is decentralization. The right will be happy with this; the left won’t allow it.
Epilogue
The left, as represented by the Democratic Party in the United
States, held office to push America into World War One (Wilson), World War Two
(Roosevelt), Korea (Truman), Vietnam (Kennedy in a small way, Johnson all in),
Libya, Syria, Yemen (Obama). The two major exceptions in the last
hundred years: Carter started no major conflict; Bush junior started two.
Revolution – and war (for other than defense) is the ultimate
expression of this – is an inherent feature of the left.
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