How the Left Doomed Itself

If Republicans listen carefully, they might hear some lessons in the ongoing Democratic wailing and gnashing of teeth. The current impasse of political progressives can teach Republicans something about the dangers of partisan discipline as they prepare to assume power in Washington.

Some on the right have envied the ability of the identity-politics Left to seize the commanding heights of progressive politics and enact a top-down social revolution. The prophets of the Great Awokening might have been few, but through sheer discipline they were able to capture one institution after the next. By this way of thinking, the Great Awokening could offer a template for a “based” counterrevolution, in which a Rightist vanguardist faction can enact its own revolutionary reckoning.

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Fred Bauer

Fred Bauer is a writer from New England.

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If Republicans listen carefully, they might hear some lessons in the ongoing Democratic wailing and gnashing of teeth. The current impasse of political progressives can teach Republicans something about the dangers of partisan discipline as they prepare to assume power in Washington.

Some on the right have envied the ability of the identity-politics Left to seize the commanding heights of progressive politics and enact a top-down social revolution. The prophets of the Great Awokening might have been few, but through sheer discipline they were able to capture one institution after the next. By this way of thinking, the Great Awokening could offer a template for a “based” counterrevolution, in which a Rightist vanguardist faction can enact its own revolutionary reckoning.