at that point you get a wave, many of which are delusional and doomed, but some succeed on their merits, a few more perhaps by luck — still others b/c the successful revolutions help stragglers, or at least disrupt the external stability/aid neighbors could otherwise draw on
what I’m outlining here is the simplest possible model of a very complex phenomenon
if you can actually grasp how it’s simple, you can see how it apply it; but if not... 
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for example; what was the first novelty (the original “model”) that inaugurated the age of Trump? Trump’s victory? Which - November or May? Or had it already happened before the first primary, in December? (Was it maybe Brexit, that summer? - Or not something political at all?)
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there’s no right answer; different ppl see different problems, and different chokepoints and time-horizons of stability. depending on which aspect is salient to your model of the status quo, you notice different acts as novelties, improbable triumphs
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so the whole dissident right is like the scales on a snake, overlapping in their models of what is exemplary, admirable, maybe imitable; but each oriented at a slightly different angle, towards a different aspect of the ruling class
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