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The Revolution Eats Its Own

1/5/2023

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by Harold Meyerson

American Prospect

​Time was when the conservative credo was "That government is best which governs least." If that needed quantitative metrics, Grover Norquist came along to say that government should be small enough that "it can be drowned in a bathtub."

But that was oh, so then. Today’s Republicans repudiate those nostrums as way too statist. What they’re making ridiculously clear (and just plain ridiculous) on the floor of the House this week is that their new credo is "That government is best which cannot even convene."

The process of revolutions growing more radical by bumping off every previous revolutionary cadre is well established. In revolutionary France, the Girondins supplanted the royalists, the Montagnards supplanted and executed the Girondins, the Jacobins supplanted and executed the Montagnards, and having run out of rival factions, the Jacobins executed each other. In revolutionary Russia, the Leninists overthrew and executed the czarists, the Stalinists overthrew and executed the Leninists. And having run out of Leninists, the Stalinists executed each other.

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