I Can’t Believe We’re Losing to These Guys
24th March 2022
I had always thought that if a left-wing revolution were to undo the American Experiment, it would be about some charismatic, competent leader taking advantage of a serious economic disaster; like an economic collapse followed by a movement led by an American version of Mao, Castro, Lenin, or Ho Chi Minh. It never occurred to me that we could be undone by grossly incompetent experts, third-rate journalists, self-satirizing academics, and by the deformed sensibilities of a majority wealthy enough to survive on Amazon, DoorDash, and Uber Eats for two years. Marx and Engels never contemplated a role for narcissism, intellectual lethargy, idle comforts, and an appetite for media-distorted fear.
In what bizarro world can a ridiculous cupcake like Justin Trudeau mutate into a lawless tyrant? How can milquetoast western governments suddenly, lawlessly arrest peaceful persons and even erect internment camps to enforce mandates that we know don’t work to combat a disease which presents a minuscule risk to all but a small, identifiable subset of the population?