{"id":382685,"date":"2018-10-28T02:50:53","date_gmt":"2018-10-28T01:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-american-republic-is-dead\/"},"modified":"2018-10-28T02:50:53","modified_gmt":"2018-10-28T01:50:53","slug":"the-american-republic-is-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-american-republic-is-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"The American Republic Is Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"

In 2010, Claremont Institute Senior Fellow Angelo Codevilla reintroduced the notion of \u201cthe ruling class\u201d back into American popular discourse. In 2017, he described contemporary American politics as a \u201ccold civil war.\u201d Now he applies the \u201clogic of revolution\u201d to our current political scene.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The primary objective of any people who find themselves in the throes of a revolution is to find ways of diverting its logic from its worst conclusions.Prior to the 2016 election I\u00a0explained<\/a>\u00a0how America had already \u201cstepped over the threshold of a revolution,\u201d that it was \u201cdifficult to imagine how we might step back, and futile to speculate how it might end.\u201d Regardless of who won the election, its sentiments\u2019 growing \u201cvolume and intensity\u201d would empower politicians on all sides sure to make us nostalgic for Donald Trump\u2019s and Hilary Clinton\u2019s moderation. Having begun, this revolution would follow its own logic.<\/p>\n

What follows dissects that logic. It has unfolded faster than foreseen. Its sentiments\u2019 spiraling volume and intensity have eliminated any possibility of \u201cstepping back.\u201d
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\nAgainst the State: An …<\/a><\/span><\/span>
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The Democratic Party and the millions it represents having refused to accept 2016\u2019s results; having used their positions of power in government and society to prevent the winners from exercising the powers earned by election; declaring in vehement words and violent deeds the illegitimacy, morbidity, even criminality, of persons and ideas contrary to themselves; bet that this \u201cresistance\u201d would so energize their constituencies, and so depress their opponents\u2019, that subsequent elections would prove 2016 to have been an anomaly and further confirm their primacy in America….<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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In 2010, Claremont Institute Senior Fellow Angelo Codevilla reintroduced the notion of \u201cthe ruling class\u201d back into American popular discourse. In 2017, he described contemporary American politics as a \u201ccold civil war.\u201d Now he applies the \u201clogic of revolution\u201d to our current political scene. The primary objective of any people who find themselves in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-382685","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}