The coming insurrection?
There’s been a lot of recent talk on the right about information coming from Data Republican about the possibility of a coup by the left. Glenn Reynolds has written about it at Substack (hat tip: commenter “sdferr”). Here’s an excerpt:
I hope that all of this is just pre-election vaporware and none of it will come to pass. But it’s worth noting that we’re talking about this because a group of 1500 senior government, military, and NGO officials have been talking about overthrowing the government among themselves. That alone is a cataclysmic change in our political environment. Many of them are likely prosecutable for seditious conspiracy — which unlike most other conspiracy crimes does not require an overt act in support of the conspiracy to constitute a crime — and even if, as is most likely, this whole thing is a fizzle, the Department of Justice should prosecute everyone subject to the law. Letting people get away with this kind of plotting just ensures it will happen again.
I haven’t written about this yet because I consider it something that’s essentially been going on for many many years. A not-dissimilar group was ready, waiting, and prepared in 2016 as the Trump administration was about to begin. What was Russiagate, if not an attempt to overthrow (or at least hamper) the duly-elected government?
I also recall seeing a piece online (after the 2016 election but prior to the inauguration) written by someone in government which referred to a large group of government employees already designating itself as The Resistance. You remember the term, but you may not recall how early it was operating.
I haven’t been able to locate the piece for years, but I recall it fairly clearly. The idea was not to quit a government job but to stay at it and sabotage and undermine everything the administration did, and the article indicated there was a huge number of government employees organized and ready to do just that.
And then there was all the lawfare against Trump during the Biden years. Biden’s involvement wasn’t necessary – although in his better-functioning years he may have approved it. The debanking, the blocking of opinions on the right including but not limited to the Hunter laptop content, the multiple impeachments, all of it was part of a similar effort. I am nearly certain that there were plans for bigger efforts, as well, plans that dovetailed with the current ones.
Some of this was quite successful in hampering Trump and others on the right, but ultimately it failed in its goal of permanent leftist power with the election of Trump in 2024. The left will not stop trying, of that I am quite sure. And as time goes on and more and more younger cohorts enter the voting pool, the number of voters who think socialism and ends-justify-means approaches are just peachy-keen will grow.
I also read a lot about Democrat plans to pack SCOTUS and to eliminate the filibuster, as well as to create some additional blue states. But that’s not the least bit new, either. Democrats tried it during the Biden era and the only thing that stopped them (besides the GOP members of Congress) were Sinema and Manchin. I have never doubted that if Democrats regain control they will attempt to accomplish what they failed to accomplish back then. As I said, the goal has long been entrenched power for the left, by hook or by crook.
What’s somewhat new about this round is documentation advocating public violence to achieve leftist ends. They’ve been fomenting violence in the streets for years, but pretending they weren’t.
According to the Democrats, wrecking the country is the cutting edge of morality and patriotism.
Democratic Socialists?
Sure, kinda like Democratic Fascists!
And why not?
…Of course there’s always Democratic Islamicists….
(Yep, it’s a big tent alright!)
And my just run of the mill Democrat BiL is perfectly fine with all this. After all, they are after Trump so anything goes as far as he’s concerned. I’m sure there are many more TDS infected people like him out there.
I have a request for you, Neo, and anyone else who might care to answer. It’s related to this post.
Background: I’m a lesser-evil voter and have thought from 2015 on that Trump is a bad guy who would be, now is, a bad president. I haven’t really changed my mind about that, although I strongly approve of some of what he’s done. In 2016 I voted third-party, as I’m in one of the reddest of red states and could afford the luxury. The Democrats’ national popular vote initiative after 2016 meant I couldn’t afford it anymore so I voted Trump in 20 and 24. I don’t regret it. Trump is the lesser evil.
My basic view is that Trump shrewdly recognized one of the most fundamental things about our situation, which is that the country was being ruled by an elite which despises its history and most of its people. But he was not the person who could do much to reverse that, and in fact might well leave the enemy in a stronger position.
However, I believe the Democrats and progressives in general are a far, far, far graver menace to our constitutional system than Trump and Trumpists are. Now and then I’ve tried to make that case with liberal-leftist friends. It’s never gotten any further than “how could you vote for the pure evil that is Trump?” But nevertheless I occasionally do still try. These are not stupid people, and they’re even well-informed in an extremely one-sided way.
So, my request: can anyone point me to a source which (1) makes a clear argument that all in all progressivism is a bigger threat to constitutional government than Trumpism and (2) is not clearly identified or identifiable with the right? I want to be able to point people to such a source. Preferably a document of less than book length. Ideally it would be the work of an old-school liberal, because if it’s explicitly conservative, it will just be dismissed. And it has to be grounded in verifiable facts about what progressives have done and are doing to subvert the constitution.
Your (y’all’s) assistance appreciated.
Mac (8:01 pm) asks, “can anyone point me to a source which (1) makes a clear argument that all in all progressivism is a bigger threat to constitutional government than Trumpism and (2) is not clearly identified or identifiable with the right?”
Off the top of my head, a suggested source is this old-school liberal:
Professor Alan Dershowitz, his recent writings and You Tube videos.
I am rereading Kurt Schlichter’s book about the second American Civil War, American Apocalypse. He imagines a scenario where the Democrats have taken the house and the Senate for example in the 2026 elections. In 2027 they assassinate Trump and Vance and the democrat speaker of the house becomes president. They immediately go about consolidating their power as discussed in Neo’s post.
The SHTF when they try to confiscate firearms. This leads to an all out Civil War between the red states and the blue states. After the loss of millions of lives, the red states win.
The sad and most likely realistic outcome is that we do not return to the freedoms of the constitutional Republic we had before the Civil War. The left destroyed them by abusing them. The left is outlawed. They are not allowed to take port in politics or in everyday life like the entertainment industry. Or in the news business. The president of the country is now in his fourth term.
A scary and depressing but realistic read.
Mac:
Thing is, someone who thought like that would be someone who was leaving the left. A changer. There are plenty of them, such as (for example) Bill Ackman and Sasha Stone.
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If it is tried it could very well be a FAFO moment. I’m thinking a cool civil war heating up quickly and intensely, depending. I doubt people will just sit there & have AOC & Schumer just run our lives however they please.
But sure, go ahead and vote D…
“Many Western Governments Won’t Survive”—
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/many-western-governments-wont-survive
(To be fair, that’s the whole point of the WEF/WTF extended Walpurgisnacht…)
MJR and Neo: thanks, I’m familiar with Dershowitz and Stone but not Ackman. I’ll check him out. Both of the former have covered much of the territory but it’s kind of scattered. I really would like to be able to say “here, read this” and point to a single focused explication. Ruy Teixeira may have something I can use. I may have to give in and write it myself but I really don’t want to spend the time, as it would require a fair amount of research for supporting data and still probably wouldn’t make any difference.
Barry Meislin: what I mean is that they often have a fairly good command of facts that support their views, but are ignorant of those that do not. They may know something substantial about, for instance, USAID’s disaster relief work, but be ignorant of its political intriguing and manipulation. Or simply accept the bland and deceptive labeling of it as “supporting democracy.”
You will only be able to convince a few people, Mac. Most people on the left, who may otherwise seem intelligent and thoughtful, follow their politics blindly and refuse to admit they are wrong. Their leftism is bound up not in logic but in their beilef that they are superior people because they “care about others” unlike all those selfish meanies on the right. Sadly most of them are unconvinceable.
If you give them countervailing facts they will question your sources and if the facts do not come from the “legacy” media – which of course is owned lock, stock and barrel by the left – they will mock you and refuse to believe you and tell you you are just mouthing false right-wing propaganda.
“I haven’t been able to locate the piece for years”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_Part_of_the_Resistance_Inside_the_Trump_Administration
Maybe RINOs should be called “Democratic Republicans”?
Sadly most of them are unconvinceable.
And many are filled with seething hatred. And yet they speak of love.
Yes, of course.
Except that I’d file that under the category of “DELUSIONAL”.
“Beautiful” and “humanistic”(!), “concerned” and “beneficial”, “moral” and “helpful”…etc.—as opposed to all those repugnant, debased, degraded, diseased and deranged fools who call themselves Trump supporters—but DELUSIONAL nonetheless.
Alas, the minds—and judgment—of these decent, intelligent, caring, loving, compassionate, wonderful, GOOD people have been hijacked, plain and simple. The stuff of old horror movies. It’s painful to behold…but there it is.
(As the talented, hard-hitting, eloquent Ms. Sasha Stone has oft admitted, she was—for a long time one of them—till she woke up and realized she was…part of a hysterical cult.)
Time of reckoning.
To be able to defend yourself, you FIRST MUST fully comprehend that there are enemies—internal and/or external—who TRULY want, and aim, to destroy you.
“French PM Puts Telecoms On Alert For Nationwide Social Media Blackout As Far-Left Riots Spiral”—
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/france-braces-far-left-chaos-70000-police-deployed
Mac the best evidence is listen to the Marxists and their goals.
Evil is evil….
The disfunctional blue states can’t fight a civil war. They can’t even control their own state territory. WA is busy disarming themselves. Across the boarder in Idaho there is gun shop after gun shop to buy Washington arms that that can’t be transferred in state anymore. The morons running the state want the guns gone. The freak show army won’t have any weapons.
Here is data R’s explanation of how she got the information, and her thoughts on what to do with it:
https://x.com/DataRepublican/status/2113801170007580992
and Cynical Publius’s take:
https://x.com/CynicalPublius/status/2114068753445278056
All political movements have a life span, ALL
All political movements have a life span, ALL!
Thanks Lee,
Everyone here should spend the time looking through the links Lee has provided; including following additional links that CynicalPublius provides in his posts.
This is frightening.
As the Founding Fathers thought through all of this, including their first, failed attempt at government, the Articles of Confederation, most predicted this would occur. They knew power would accumulate so they tried to limit or slow that trend by pitting power structures against one another; checks and balances. The States check the Fed. The 3 Federal branches check one another…
I think most of the Founders would have been surprised the Constitution lasted 250 years. I also think some of them would look at government in the USA in 2026 and argue their system did not survive.
In other countries governments collapse and reform fairly regularly. Take France, as an example. The current Constitution of France was adopted in 1958, replacing the Constitution adopted in 1946. In the past 50 years, or so, over 20 African countries have changed names. Look at the biggest world powers; China, Russia. They have been through tremendous political change and unrest over the past, 100 years including complete changes in government and names.
A 250 year old country with the same (albeit amended) founding document is very rare in human history.
The difficult thing with the United States of America is any major collapse or revolution would be highly unlikely to result in a better system of government than what our founders set up with our Constitution.
America doesn’t need a revolution, but we could use a reset. Many of our problems, including the national debt, are relatively easy to solve; not rocket surgery. However, there is so much money in U.S. politics and graft and grift, and foreign interference and traitors inside the gates it seems highly unlikely any leaders will be able to rally us to do what is needed.
We need the demon party wiped out. They lie, they cheat, they steal. They abuse the authority of their office in every single way they can. They intend to replace the constitution. Destroy them in civil war. Our constitution is not broken, they just hate it. Look at what they are trying to pull in Alaska with decoy Dan. Look at what they plan to do, lawfare. Look at their 200 resister judges that Shumer bragged about. Look at Obama conspiring with a foreign intelligence service to sabotage the incoming administration. They set the precedent of non peaceful transfer of power. Cram it down their throats.
@Bob Wilson:
*sigh* KS certainly likes to live in his own reality.
If Kurt was half the soldier he claims to be, he’d remember the first rule of warfare: “Never underestimate your opponent.”
The Confederates thought they’d easily beat the North, since Northerners were supposed to be all immigrants and shop keepers. The Nazis thought they’d easily beat the US, since Americans were supposed to be all gangsters and shop keepers. And so it goes.
No aspiring revolutionary would assassinate the President and the Vice President in hopes that the Speaker of the House became President. For one thing, assassination would make them both martyrs and far more powerful in death than they ever were in life: witness Lincoln and JFK. For another, the Prez and the VP would have to be murdered at the exact same time: otherwise, the Prez would just appoint a new VP, or the VP who became Prez would appoint a new VP. Even if the Speaker did become Prez, he or she would have to deal with the President Pro Tem of the Senate, and a whole cabinet filled with the dead President’s loyalists: it wouldn’t be an instant ticket to dictatorship.
The Confederate plotters found that out when they tried to decapitate Lincoln’s government in 1865. Booth did murder President Lincoln, and his fellow plotter wounded Secretary of State Seward, but the third man lost his nerve and didn’t kill VP Johnson, so the plan failed. KS really needs to study history more,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Abraham_Lincoln
“We need the demon party wiped out.”
Chases Eagles,
And many regular Democrat people i know say exactly the same thing about the GOP and conservatives. With such opinions on both sides we are definitely heading towards a violent solution.
@physicsguy,
Wiping out an entire opposition party would be unconscionable as well as impossible. Some hotheads would like a violent confrontation: let’s hope cooler heads prevail.
BJ:
Sorry to rain on your parade, but Mao didn’t have much opposition left on mainland China, where is the Taiwan in our predicament?
You seem to have forgotten Bill Ayers’s wet dreams of camps in the southwest once his cadres gained power. And also forgotten the Gulag?
Almost impossible to “completely” wipe out the opposition? History begs to differ, that “completely” is not necessary, “practically” is good enough.
Why did Jack Smith compile a list of over 600,000 US citizens who bought Trump/MAGA swag?
Physicsguy, they started it. The Nazi party was wiped out. Every Nazi killed? No. Most? No again. But the party was wiped out. Other wannabe parties call themselves some variety but the Nazi party was wiped out, gone, kaput.
“America doesn’t need a revolution, but we could use a reset.”
I like to say that we need at 28th Amendment that states: “The Constitution and its Amendments mean exactly what they say.” It could add “according to the understanding when they were written.” I wouldn’t mind if a few of them were repealed (the 16th, 17th, and 26th for starters).
SHJOUT OUT to Mac near the top:
A fresh prosecution discloses the seditious depth’s of “message control “exercised by the Deep State through the FBI during the Trump and Biden Administrations.
This clearly tracks and outlines the laterJuly evening speech from the White House warning of illegal foreign election interference, which the MSM barely covered, and the FNC bailed out of live coverage. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTRTilNDYOA
Basically, two key ex-FIB Agents have received criminal complaints accusing them lying to Congress for promoting false Trump intel stories like Russiagate into the mass media that are negative, while also burying any that expose of the Biden Crime Family, eg, the Hunter Biden laptop.
Although lawyer Gouviea treads lightly on it, telling us that the complaint is likely to become criminal indictments, and that some FIBers may have turned DOJ evidence on the two — those aware among us can foresee the implications.
This is the long- and painfully-awaited legal spadework to turn higher ups to finger CIA Director John Brennan in conspiracy and sedition, we hope.
The first 30 minutes concerns the complaint of “brilliant criminal complaint” and the two. And the rest reads from Congressional testimony and explains the spider webs emerging from the exposure of the weaponizing of the Federal government against Trump, as well as the coverup of Biden Crime Family activities while in high office.
Good Stuff! A preview of things to come.
Back at Mac who asks about these implications : I expect the usual Right-side media will reports summer facts about this development. And then the opinion writers will better fallout the implications for higher-up prosecutions to come.
“…from 2015 on that Trump is a bad guy who would be, now is, a bad president. I haven’t really changed my mind about that,…” -Mac
“I strongly approve of some of what he’s done….” -Mac
You are one conflicted person!
“My basic view is that Trump shrewdly recognized one of the most fundamental things about our situation, which is that the country was being ruled by an elite which despises its history and most of its people. But he was not the person who could do much to reverse that, and in fact might well leave the enemy in a stronger position.” -Mac
Suggest someone who you think could reverse “that”. I think you’re completely wrong about this. He was/is the only person who has succeeded in prodding the left to reveal themselves as the anti-constitutionalists they are. The constitution has been an impediment to their seizing/consolidating power– and they are hell-bent on changing it to suit their ends. Living constitution anyone?
The left has made an artform out of redefining words to suit themselves. And liberals are fine with that. They are fine with making up laws, turning civil offenses into criminal ones and will celebrate/did celebrate when they thought they had former President Trump in their crosshairs.
For another, the Prez and the VP would have to be murdered at the exact same time: otherwise, the Prez would just appoint a new VP, or the VP who became Prez would appoint a new VP. Even if the Speaker did become Prez, he or she would have to deal with the President Pro Tem of the Senate, and a whole cabinet filled with the dead President’s loyalists: it wouldn’t be an instant ticket to dictatorship.
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To install a replacement for the vice president, you require a vote of confirmation in Congress. Not sure what you fancy would be the impediment of the President pro tem of the Senate. The cabinet could be readily replaced if the usurper’s party held the Senate.
They may know something substantial about, for instance, USAID’s disaster relief work,
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USAID did not provide hands-on services. It was a grant money distributor.
Rep. Jason Crow (D-CO) said “priority number one if we retake the majority, to make sure we oust” Secretary of War Pete Hegseth.
This is to sever Trumps control over the military to prevent it from being used against their insurrection.
Brian E: “You are one conflicted person!”
Not at all. Just realistic.
Brian E:
Good to have you back, I’ve been wondering about you absence for a while. I hope it was not an absence required by dire necessity.
Looks like the fix is on in Brazil. Lula got a Supreme Court judge to rule that the polls should be open for an extra two hours. Of course no one told the Bolsonaro supporters. Turns out the Supreme Court judge was Lula’s personal lawyer. Bolsonaro does not accept the results.
om, I’ve been in rural Idaho for the last two months helping my adopted son and DiL with their restaurant while he has been down with cancer. He had surgery last month at a University of Pittsburgh Hospital with one, if not the leading oncologist for the very rare cancer Stephen has. None of the oncologists he has seen would operate, given the advanced spread of the tumors. This one operated to give him some quality of life and extend his time.
He made no predictions and removed all the cancer he could. We are encouraged. He might have 6 months– he might have 6 years. It depends on how quickly the tumors (the cancer is called PMP) grow back.
@neo: I haven’t written about this yet because I consider it something that’s essentially been going on for many many years.
As neo notes, this is not something new. Yet it still has not happened, even when Democrats were better positioned with Obama, then Biden in the White House.
Though God knows they tried. And kept trying. And they are still trying.
I was surprised that Slotkin came out so nakedly fascist before the midterms. I would have thought they would have pulled back to Obama stealth mode.
Perhaps this talk is more for internal consumption, to shore up Dem/progressive/Antifa support. Yeah, we’re still tough, we’re still radical, and we’re gonna get some payback when you vote for us in the midterms.
Kinda like Iran’s (and Obama’s) announcements that Iran is still standing tall and stronger than ever.
Perhaps this is more bluff than threat.
Eschew cocksuredness and all that, but still … consider the possibility.
Brian E:
So sorry to hear of Steve’s affliction but offer encouragement and prayers for the best outcome for all of you.
om– thank you
Let’s hope a new and bloody insurrection is coming for Brazil, as the most in-your-face election fraud imaginable has happened, with the prog Left giving Pres. Lula the victory on Sunday night. https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2026/10/25/the-fix-is-in-judge-who-was-lulas-personal-lawyer-extends-brazils-voting-for-two-more-hours-n3820312
“Here’s where the election stood at 80% votes counted:
80.71% turnout 39,205,023 valid votes
Flávio Bolsonaro PL. 50.44% 19,776,896
Lula PT 49.56% 19,428,127
____________
Thus. just under 1% difference.
What followed comes on the heels of Bolsonaro (Jr) taking the plurality vote just weeks ago. And under the current constitution, for decades, the winner of the first election went on to win the 1 on 1 final, gaining over 50% of the vote.
So, how did the prog Left do it?
Pres. Lula claiming “transport problems” used this as a fig leaf,
approved by the Supreme Court Justice who used to be Lula’s
personal attorney, reopening voting in Lula voting districts,
while Bolsonaro districts closed! Union or State leaders flooded
these polls to steal it, I believe. (My read at the long link above
was only cursory.)
Worthy of a Communist or Fascist or any Dictator’s fraud!
I hope the coming Brazil Stock Market blood bath will be echoed
in bloodletting of the Lula-fools and tools!
I expect the South American nations to boycott Brazil.
Trump will follow Milei’s lead, I’d guess.
History making isn’t over with this. It’s just beginning.
@ Rufus > “The difficult thing with the United States of America is any major collapse or revolution would be highly unlikely to result in a better system of government than what our founders set up with our Constitution.”
Or to amend Churchill: “[American Republicanism] is the worst form of Government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time”
@ Brian E – so sorry to hear about your son’s cancer; best wishes for the strongest recovery possible and the blessing of more time together, whatever that turns out to be.
@ TJ > “Pres. Lula claiming “transport problems” used this as a fig leaf,
approved by the Supreme Court Justice who used to be Lula’s
personal attorney, reopening voting in Lula voting districts,
while Bolsonaro districts closed! Union or State leaders flooded
these polls to steal it, I believe.”
I read another article earlier today, shorter than the one at Hot Air, and the two-hour delay jumped out at me immediately, although the author didn’t mention it was only for selected districts.
That tactic sounds familiar; a variant of the “so sorry we ran out of Republican ballots, we can get some more in a couple of hours if you want to wait.”
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Search: “which polling places ran out of ballots in recent elections”
In most of the stories alleging bias, there were “explanations” that the claims were false, but most of them rested on the base of “we examined ourselves and found no errors.”
Some may even be correct. I am memorializing a list just for the record, since it takes time to find and read them.
https://www.npr.org/2023/11/30/1215866310/why-ballot-shortages-happen-hinds-mississippi-voting
A helpful explanation of the general situation but doesn’t address why there were so many stories of shortages only in known-Republican districts or states.
Note the sources that are not exactly known for bias-free reporting. There were lots of stories on the Milwaukee shortages, but they didn’t address political differences in availability.
https://politifact.com/factchecks/2025/apr/02/tweets/some-milwaukee-voting-sites-ran-out-of-ballots-in/
“We found no credible news reports that seven counties ran out of ballots. We also found no evidence that the Milwaukee ballot shortage was intentional; election officials said voter turnout was higher than expected.”
https://www.waow.com/news/7-milwaukee-polling-locations-run-out-of-ballots-others-run-low-due-to-unprecedented-turnout/article_146e7b6f-a183-530a-a6f5-334532a56964.html
https://www.channel3000.com/news/multiple-milwaukee-polling-places-run-out-of-ballots-ahead-of-polls-closing/article_ba9c0b98-c92a-4a5f-aeb8-d58de9bea75c.html
A couple of stories specifically alleging discrimination.
https://apnews.com/article/pa-state-wire-pennsylvania-wilkes-barre-elections-97a47c896e73aeedaa63d234630a245a
“Republicans in Delaware County, outside Philadelphia, asserted that polling places in many towns in the Democratic-controlled county ran out of GOP ballots, with some waiting in vain to be resupplied. Republican officials said there were long lines and that some people left without voting.”
https://www.wapt.com/article/new-horizon-plling-location-delayed-by-missing-republican-ballots/70697869
“The polling location at New Horizon Church in Jackson experienced a delay due to missing Republican ballots. The ballots did not arrive until about 9 a.m.
Poll workers said only one Republican voter showed up who was unable to vote initially, but that voter did return later.
“She gave me a ballot. I said, ‘Ma’am, everybody on here is a Democrat. There are no Republican names on here,'” said Geanette Gross Perkins, the affected voter.”
The election most of us probably remember
https://www.npr.org/2022/08/08/1116394618/arizona-pinal-county-election-woes
The election in Arizona that Kari Lake spotlighted.
A commenter on Glenn’s substack post had some interesting observations about the subject, some of them not all that new but well-spoken, and a link to a very interesting map.
The commenters on the Instapundit link pointing to the Substack article were less temperate about their … interesting … suggestions.
Zerohedge ran a post that had most of the same information as Hot Air, but added more about the financial ramifications of the election shenanigans, and this quote:
“If a conservative government in Brazil did this, everyone in the mainstream press in America would lose their minds, but I guess they’re just choosing to be silent because it’s all for the cause,” Donald Trump Jr. wrote on X, commenting on Lula’s last-minute request to extend voting.”
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/brazil-runoff-enters-final-hour-left-right-showdown-could-reshape-latin-americas
@ Lee > “Here is data R’s explanation of how she got the information, and her thoughts on what to do with it:”
Thanks for keeping that on the front burner, which is exactly what Cynical Publius recommends in his analysis.
This is a good companion piece to the analysis that Cynical Publius did. Obviously, speculations about what might happen in a highly hypothetical world are legion, but only some are tethered to possible real-world situations and responses.
However, the news cycle is spiraling further and faster into tin-foil-hat territory every day.
All bets are off.
https://thefederalist.com/2026/10/23/the-dsa-plans-to-incite-nationwide-violence-ahead-of-2028-election/
Time once again to play “Compare and Contrast”:
“Is It Time For Another Worldwide Civilizational Collapse?”—
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/it-time-another-worldwide-civilizational-collapse
“Former UK Prime Minister Listed As ‘Core Participant’ In Grooming Gang Inquiry”—
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/former-uk-prime-minister-listed-core-participant-grooming-gang-inquiry
(Not that one would want to forget the Honourable Lord Mayor of London…)
+ Bonus:
Yurp, Brazil, Canada, Ill-han Omar, Illicit Slotkin…and the whole bloody lot of ‘em…
Never a dull moment, I guess, with those clowns.
Neo mentions to Mac a couple of political changers.
I would add David Mamet (playwright, director), who was completely steeped in the Left of the Northeast and NYC. But, after moving to SoCal, asked his Rabbi about instruction the political right, to answer his ignorance.
His first recommendation? Books by Thomas Sowell. See his 2011 book, “The Secret Knowledge: On Dismantling American Society.”
One Amazon book reviewer explains this books’ origins: “The story is now well-known. David Mamet underwent a conversion to conservatism which he briefly chronicled in an essay in the Village Voice. Now he provides a more extended account of the results of that process in The Secret Knowledge.
“Each essay is occasioned by an image, an anecdote or an experience. The book feels very spontaneous and it has been described, not inaccurately, as sometimes over the top.”
Another changer but new to me is Western historian Riccardo Duschene.
He grew up on Marxism throughout his higher education rising to the PhD.
He’s written three books in past decade on European exceptionalism, with his latest tome a couple years out, “Greatness and Ruin,” in effect his updated rise and decline account of The West.
“Ricardo Duchesne’s Greatness and Ruin is an ambitious, confrontational, and deeply contrarian work. Framed as a sweeping civilizational analysis, it seeks to explain the unprecedented intellectual, cultural, and technological achievements of the West alongside what Duchesne views as its current self-destructive liberal pluralism.
“This is a book that refuses to bow to academic orthodoxy, rejecting both the economic reductionism of “Great Divergence” historians and the multicultural relativism of contemporary liberalism. Instead, Duchesne revives a grand narrative of European exceptionalism rooted in introspective consciousness, self-authorizing reason, and the emancipation from kinship structures—attributes he claims are uniquely Western.”
BOOK REVIEW. https://mises.org/mises-wire/review-greatness-and-ruin-ricardo-duchesne
FRESH INTERVIEW HERE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGMBI_4AeeU
Every liberal I know likes this.
AesopFan @ 322am:
That map comparing 1992 to 2024 is fascinating. It aligns with my memory of that time. I seem to remember that while there were differences between neighbors who might be D or R, it wasn’t a defining characteristic and D and R could coexist. Just look at that map for states like Arkansas or Missouri I also seem to remember that the racial divide was quickly receding. Obama quickly reversed that. My memory also sets 2000 as the year in which our current situation started to evolve. Now the reds are very deep red and the same with the blues. And the rural/city divide is stark.
Fundamental transmogrification of America.
(Calvin goes into politics, not fair to Calvin (Calvin and Hobbs) he wasn’t fundamentally evil.)