9/23/20, “Revolution 2020,” Angelo Codevilla, American Mind
“Let there be no doubt: the ruling class’s focus on Donald Trump has been incidental. America’s potentates do not fear one pudgy orange-haired septuagenarian. They fear the millions of Americans whom they loathe, who voted for Trump, who gave his party control of House and Senate, and who will surely vote for folks these potentates really should fear….
Our revolution is by the ruling class–a revolution from above. Crushing obstacles to its growing oligarchic rule is the proximate purpose.…
Affirmation of one’s own superiority by punishing inferiors is an addictive pleasure. It requires ever stronger, purer doses of infliction, and is inherently beyond satisfaction.
In short…the ruling class’s intensifying efforts to oppress those they imagine to be their inferiors is not reversible….It is awakening to its deep resentment--indeed, to hate–for whoever does not submit preemptively.”…(subhead, “The Logic of Hate”)
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