For anyone interested in more information further to the discussion about the revolutionary left in the 1960s and 1970s, I highly recommend DAYS OF INFAMY, by Bryan Burrough. It catalogues in some detail the extent to which they tried to live up to their rhetoric.
Fast forward to today — I’d say the people on the far right whom Glenn was discussing are much better armed than the revolutionary left way back when and probably today. I agree with John they are unlikely to succeed in staging a coup or starting a civil war. However, if they were ever to try, they would be able to cause a great deal of death, injury and civil strife before they would be suppressed. This is not to minimize what the revolutionary left has done or could do. It’s just to say that things could get really bad, in ways we’d like to avoid and would regret, and still be short of a successful coup or starting a civil war.
In that regard, I share Glenn’s fears, particularly when he talks about a white nationalist reaction to the racialization of everything and the demonization of whites.
For anyone interested in more information further to the discussion about the revolutionary left in the 1960s and 1970s, I highly recommend DAYS OF INFAMY, by Bryan Burrough. It catalogues in some detail the extent to which they tried to live up to their rhetoric.
Fast forward to today — I’d say the people on the far right whom Glenn was discussing are much better armed than the revolutionary left way back when and probably today. I agree with John they are unlikely to succeed in staging a coup or starting a civil war. However, if they were ever to try, they would be able to cause a great deal of death, injury and civil strife before they would be suppressed. This is not to minimize what the revolutionary left has done or could do. It’s just to say that things could get really bad, in ways we’d like to avoid and would regret, and still be short of a successful coup or starting a civil war.
In that regard, I share Glenn’s fears, particularly when he talks about a white nationalist reaction to the racialization of everything and the demonization of whites.