The Myth of “The People’s Revolution”

Principles and Heresies

The spectacle of the United States, materially the world’s strongest power, allowing the enemy of all civilized humanity to establish an armed base 90 miles off our shores, and thousands of miles from that enemy’s center of power, is so politically preposterous—in a historical sense, so incredible—that if it were related of a similar situation in the past, trained historians would flatly deny its occurrence. The texts, they would say, must have been corrupted, or the evidence presented was suspect or had been tampered with by later editors desirous of making a tendentious point.

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About the Author

Frank S. Meyer

Frank S. Meyer was a senior editor of National Review.

Principles and Heresies

The spectacle of the United States, materially the world’s strongest power, allowing the enemy of all civilized humanity to establish an armed base 90 miles off our shores, and thousands of miles from that enemy’s center of power, is so politically preposterous—in a historical sense, so incredible—that if it were related of a similar situation in the past, trained historians would flatly deny its occurrence. The texts, they would say, must have been corrupted, or the evidence presented was suspect or had been tampered with by later editors desirous of making a tendentious point.