Revolution is itself a proggified word. It actually means literal revolution: that the high be cast down, that the low be brought high. The intra-elite squabbles which Codevilla describes are not revolutions, and don't even get within spitting distance of deserving such gravitas.
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Replying to @Alrenous @Outsideness
"You may have won the last election, said the ruling class. But we’re still in charge. Indeed, they are." Codevilla, representing the slower students, discovers the Cathedral.
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"Establishment Republicans were driven to admit that their kind could no longer buy the Left’s comity." Republicants would have remained can't-do folk, except Trump has shamed them into sheepishly and partially rediscovering their testicles.
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"by death-gripping their privileges;" There's murder, arson, and jaywalking, and then there's Codevilla's jaywalking, littering, suicide bombing, and petty vandalism.
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"simply protested the bipartisan ruling class’s continued rule""signing the $1.3 trillion omnibus bill that continued financing every Progressive group" Yes. Trump is trying not to throw the first punch. He's hoping to pull on America the same trick he pulled on North Korea.
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Trump does not realize he is asking the Party of Permanent Revolution to give up Revolution.
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"Trump’s rousing speeches feed the body politic as empty calories feed the human body." The slower students discover the principle of folk activism.
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Though doubtless, having failed to give it a name, they will quickly forget it. Though even if they did give it a name, the name would be an abomination before all communication.
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"Who will accept losing the next elections? Odds are that neither the Left nor, now, the Right will accept it." The right holds no institutional power, so their rejection would come in the form of petulant weeping.
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"and that a substantial portion of the Senate’s Republican majority would be friendly to it." Yes. Generations of loser/outer Party selection at work.
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"Such leadership having become necessary—by Trump or whomever—it would carry with it the conservative side of both Houses into sociopolitical stasis for the next two years." You poor naive fool.
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