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Bring on the Counterrevolution
City Journal ^ | Summer 2023 | Christopher Rufo

Posted on 08/15/2023 5:43:59 PM PDT by Rummyfan

Conservatives need a national agenda that reclaims American institutions from the Left. A blueprint exists, from a surprising source.

America is trapped in the loop of 1968. The politics of that fateful year have set the patterns and bounds of our national life for decades.

It’s as though we have lived an endless recurrence: the Black Panther Party reappears as the Black Lives Matter movement; the Weather Underground pamphlets launder themselves into academic papers; the Marxist-Leninist guerrillas trade in their bandoliers and become managers of an elite-led revolution in manners and mores. The ideology, narrative, and aesthetics of the left-wing social movements of that earlier time, though now often degraded through cynicism and repetition, have maintained the position of a jealous hegemon.

The cultural revolution that began a half-century ago, now reflected in a deadening sequence of acronyms—CRT, DEI, ESG, and more—has increasingly become our new official morality. Many conservatives have made an uneasy peace with this transformation of values, even as the culture around them has, in many places, collapsed.

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1 posted on 08/15/2023 5:43:59 PM PDT by Rummyfan
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To: Rummyfan

Nixon’s blueprint failed and created uniparty, deep state globalism centered on Chicom exploitation of labor.

It created Rino Gope.

This “blueprint” may have had some success (with much more ultimate failure) but is totally irrelevant now.


2 posted on 08/15/2023 5:54:41 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Rummyfan

Counter Revolution nothing!

As the sign I saw yesterday here in South Dakota, I’m the shadows of Mt. Rushmore said: “Keep Calm & Return Fire”.


3 posted on 08/15/2023 5:59:54 PM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: Rummyfan

FANI WILLIS is daughter of Black Panther.

NO BIAS THERE !!!!!!!!!


4 posted on 08/15/2023 6:03:05 PM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: Rummyfan

Stop hey what’s that sound, everybody look what’s goin’ down


5 posted on 08/15/2023 6:45:54 PM PDT by bigbob (Q)
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To: Rummyfan

BUMP


6 posted on 08/15/2023 6:49:27 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (Either ‘the Deep State destroys America, or we destroy the Deep State.’ --Donald Trump)
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To: All

Globalism is in fact an attack on the United States (and Canada). It is no different from waves of Chinese soldiers storming the beaches or Russia attacking with nuclear weapons.

The thing that prevents resistance is that many (not all) of the globalists are our fellow citizens. They want the failure of our countries for a variety of reasons. They foolishly think that they and their families can escape the consequences of the collapse, that somehow, all these policies will only negatively affect conservatives.

They are about to find out otherwise. But we need to act now, and in a realistic way. Another stolen election won’t help in any way.


7 posted on 08/15/2023 6:58:50 PM PDT by Peter ODonnell (It's tough non-work but somebody (Congress) has not to do it. )
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To: Rummyfan

In Psalm 11 King David deals with the question (v3 - 7) “When the foundations are destroyed what can the righteous do?”


8 posted on 08/15/2023 6:59:11 PM PDT by Lake Living
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To: Rummyfan

I agree that a counter revolution is needed, but the model might better be the French Revolution where the disenfranchised middle class overthrew the governing elites. Sadly the French revolution had its excesses and a revolution in this country might also give way to a Terror. However as thing are going with another stolen election the next January 6th will resemble the storming of the Bastille.


9 posted on 08/15/2023 7:02:17 PM PDT by The Great RJ ( )
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To: ifinnegan

A good article.
At last I understand the drive behind the lefts campaign against Nixon with watergate.

While I dont think it’s 100% irrelevant now I do agree it would be much harder than during Nixon’s time:

1. Left hold on education, it’s so great you would almost have to create a national mass firing …geometrically greater than Reagan’s layoff of air traffic controllers.
2. Our demographics have changed. We have so many more broken families and well…immigrants who are not brought up to even understand our particular unique system.
3. Most of all…what killed Nixon as POTUS?

THE MEDIA!!! I remember the Watergate scandal was the first time I moved from a child’s mind to more adult and I remember thinking why were all the TV channels spending all day on it. And why was Nixon being made out to be a bad man?

Today the media is even more under their control—look what it did to Trump.


10 posted on 08/15/2023 7:05:01 PM PDT by Phoenix8
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To: Phoenix8

“At last I understand the drive behind the lefts campaign against Nixon with watergate.”

Yes.


11 posted on 08/15/2023 7:20:25 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Lake Living

First thing the righteous understand is if things get destroyed, we’ll have to bear the cost.
Improvise, Adapt, Overcome. Success is the best revenge.


12 posted on 08/15/2023 7:21:51 PM PDT by griswold3 (Truth, Beauty and Goodness )
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To: Rummyfan

People should fight for constitutional property tax caps (say no more than state general minimum hourly wages weighted by the 2020 census population of each state*5*square root of the lawfully human inhabitable enclosed square footage of the property) and no property tax on any residence solely occupied by persons 65 or over.

state minimum wages weighted by the 2020 census population of each state ~- $11
[the minimum wages of all states are used so no one state has the easy option of increasing its minimum wage
square root of the lawfully human inhabitable enclosed square footage of a 1600 sq. ft. house = 40

$11*5*40 = $2200


13 posted on 08/15/2023 7:26:31 PM PDT by Brian Griffin (Article II, Section 2: "The President...may require the opinion, in writing,...upon any subject...")
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To: Rummyfan

Gas and a match comes to mind.


14 posted on 08/15/2023 7:28:04 PM PDT by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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To: Rummyfan
Trump IS the counter revolution.


15 posted on 08/15/2023 7:33:41 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: Rummyfan
1975
CIA spied on American citizens with no warrants.

https://youtu.be/0D-PofLvdg4

News clip form ABC news in black and white

Tape jumps first few seconds. The Rockefeller Report is discussed and findings.
Opened mail. Break ins. Phone taps. Administered drugs to people who were not told and resulted in death. Includes interview with victim of their illegal activities.

16 posted on 08/15/2023 7:35:02 PM PDT by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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To: Peter ODonnell

“But we need to act now,”

You need to do next to nothing.

No new mutual fund or stock purchases.

No new house paid for in lucrative wages that lure in invaders.

No meals out.

Retire as early as practical.

No recreational travel.


17 posted on 08/15/2023 7:35:47 PM PDT by Brian Griffin (Article II, Section 2: "The President...may require the opinion, in writing,...upon any subject...")
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To: Rummyfan

No income tax increases on incomes less than the greatest compensation for being a federal civil servant.


18 posted on 08/15/2023 7:44:16 PM PDT by Brian Griffin (Article II, Section 2: "The President...may require the opinion, in writing,...upon any subject...")
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To: Rummyfan

“convert entire federal programs into direct block grants to states and municipalities”


19 posted on 08/15/2023 7:47:58 PM PDT by Brian Griffin (Article II, Section 2: "The President...may require the opinion, in writing,...upon any subject...")
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To: Rummyfan

“A vast army of undercover agents is spread over the entire country and through all branches of society.”


20 posted on 08/15/2023 7:50:39 PM PDT by Brian Griffin (Article II, Section 2: "The President...may require the opinion, in writing,...upon any subject...")
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