It's a counterrevolution, I would say instead. It's been waged by thoroughly-domesticated East Coast urbanites who, from the 1850's to today, never ever really got a flavor for what America was, or is. They're half-American, half-European, and half-Communist. Their thinking and cultural values are dominated by the values, such as they are (Ayn Rand knew and despised them), of Atlantic coast megalopolitan "parlor pinks" who play at ideology and have no care what it costs others who are not comfortably bathed in a warm, steady stream of bond coupons, preferred-stock dividends, and tenured-faculty compensation. They're set and they're smug, while all around them other people eat all the caltrops they strew around the highway of life in the form of regulations and taxes required to make their heavily-managed "society" function the way they want it to.
They're Europeans who think they're Americans, when they're not even close, because they never ventured out of their cities to see the land and the real people who actually made it the greatest country on earth.
They're hothouse parasites, horse-stable ticks.
But they're not Real Americans.
No wonder the Communists do so well among them.
There, I said it.