If you want to understand the Trump revolution, and if you want to predict the next steps, don’t pay so much attention to the details, but rather look at how revolutions have been carried out in the past. Including the French one in 1789 and the Russian one in 1917.
Every proper revolution also comes with the embarrassment of its spread. The heart of a revolutionary would like to overthrow all tyrants similar to those overthrown in the mother country of the revolution. Reason dictates to prefer the interests of one’s own country and its stability. And in the case of the present American Revolution, it is added that the European liberal oligarchy supports the American one. The rulers of the European Union are therefore the natural enemy of the new American regime – unlike, say, North Korea, which poses no threat to the Americans.
I suggest that we read the speech of the American Vice-President J.D. Vance in Munich yesterday, when he clearly said that he considers regimes of the type represented by the current Czech Government to be tyrannical and that he will not support such regimes.
In fact, there was nothing in his criticism of European oligarchic regimes that everyone did not know. But what is new is that it was said quite directly, out loud, and that no European regime can prevent it from spreading freely – including the major media. It has humiliated Europe’s liberal dictatorships, and Europe’s liberal dictatorships have shown weakness. In some places it will stand, in others it will embolden the revolutionaries. But that’s the less important side of things. More important is the erosion of the morale of the regimes’ supporters. Can you imagine anyone finding the courage to disrupt or rig elections in this situation?
Anyone who is not powerful enough to afford to rig an election and get away with it is not a real ruler.
