Fascinating, though long, read.

“Understanding what drives the revolution that is destroying the American republic gives insight into how the 2020 election’s results may impact its course. Its practical question—who rules?—is historically familiar. But any revolution’s quarrels and stakes obscure the question: to what end? Our revolution is by the ruling class—a revolution from above. Crushing obstacles to its growing oligarchic rule is the proximate purpose. But the logic that drives the revolution aims at civilization itself. What follows describes how far along its path that logic has taken America, and where it might take us in the future depending on the election’s outcome.“

https://americanmind.org/essays/revolution-2020/

I read the entire thing. Obviously written by some Ivy academic.

What that "class" has never acknowledged, is that the American DNA is unique. America has been, and will be the "revolution". We value individualism.

The entirety of the Bill of Rights is not what gov will give to us, but what the gov does not have control. The very first doc in human history.

So pontificate all y'all want, but we, the heart and soul, are the revolution. The revolution against monarchies, our "social betters", our "enlightened scholars", and our "journalist class".

These temper tantrums are not the revolution, and will never will be.

Angelo Codevilla is a brilliant man.
In 2010 he published the following essay:

America’s Ruling Class—And the Perils of Revolution

July 15, 2010
By Angelo M. Codevilla
Also published in The American Spectator Thu. July 15, 2010

The only serious opposition to this arrogant Ruling Party is coming not from feckless Republicans but from what might be called the Country Party—and its vision is revolutionary.

As over-leveraged investment houses began to fail in September 2008, the leaders of the Republican and Democratic parties, of major corporations, and opinion leaders stretching from the National Review magazine (and The Wall Street Journal) on the right to The Nation magazine on the left, agreed that spending some $700 billion to buy the investors’ “toxic assets” was the only alternative to the U.S. economy’s “systemic collapse.” In this, President George W. Bush and his would-be Republican successor John McCain agreed with the Democratic candidate, Barack Obama. Many, if not most, people around them also agreed upon the eventual commitment of some 10 trillion nonexistent dollars in ways unprecedented in America. They explained neither the difference between the assets’ nominal and real values, nor precisely why letting the market find the latter would collapse America. The public objected immediately, by margins of three or four to one.

When this majority discovered that virtually no one in a position of power in either party or with a national voice would take their objections seriously, that decisions about their money were being made in bipartisan backroom deals with interested parties, and that the laws on these matters were being voted by people who had not read them, the term “political class” came into use. Then, after those in power changed their plans from buying toxic assets to buying up equity in banks and major industries but refused to explain why, when they reasserted their right to decide ad hoc on these and so many other matters, supposing them to be beyond the general public’s understanding, the American people started referring to those in and around government as the “ruling class.” And in fact Republican and Democratic office holders and their retinues show a similar presumption to dominate and fewer differences in tastes, habits, opinions, and sources of income among one another than between both and the rest of the country. They think, look, and act as a class.

https://www.independent.org/pu.../article.asp?id=4725

Codvilla’s “Revolution 2020” assessment is spot on. The original Founders must have had similar feelings
Wonder what JAllen’s comments would have been. Miss him here.
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Just noticed the Author’s last name should be spelled “Codevilla”.
Apology.
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