{"id":12524,"date":"2020-07-30T10:00:42","date_gmt":"2020-07-30T17:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=12524"},"modified":"2020-07-29T15:49:02","modified_gmt":"2020-07-29T22:49:02","slug":"waiting-for-the-counterrevolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/waiting-for-the-counterrevolution\/","title":{"rendered":"Waiting for the Counterrevolution"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>W\n\t\t\t\te are in the midst of a revolution, a cultural and racial one, that seeks to refute the past, damn the present, and hijack the future. So far, however, we have only heard from one side, the revolutionaries and their enablers themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Those trying to reject and then reboot America are small as a percentage of the population, but their tactics are diverse, and their frightened abettors and closet appeasers numerous. The result for now is that, as with most cultural revolutions, a tiny percentage of the population seems to be ascending, given that there is no real organized resistance other than isolated and disgusted individuals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The cultural revolutionaries are a tripartite group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the front lines are the shock troops. For the most part, middle-class urban and suburban white kids, many of them in college, graduated, or dropped out, make up Antifa and its affiliates. They seem to organize the statue toppling, graffiti, and vandalism, as well as the violence at the demonstrations. They show up in ridiculous black-clad Road Warrior outfits, fitted out with cobbled-together hoodies, bicycle helmets, knee pads, and various sports-equipment armor, and occasionally with testudo-like umbrellas and assorted fireworks, rocks, bottle, and bats. All that is a psychodrama far more interesting than showing up at Starbucks at 5 a.m.&nbsp;to start the day\u2019s machinery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2020\/07\/protests-riots-democrats-media-blame-trump\/\">Read the full article here <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review W e are in the midst of a revolution, a cultural and racial one, that seeks to refute the past, damn the present, and hijack the future. So far, however, we have only heard from one side, the revolutionaries and their enablers themselves. Those trying to reject and then [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-3g0","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12436,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/how-cultural-revolutions-die-or-not\/","url_meta":{"origin":12524,"position":0},"title":"How Cultural Revolutions Die \u2014 or Not","author":"victorhanson","date":"June 21, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review Unlike\u00a0coups or political revolutions, cultural revolutions don\u2019t just change governments or leaders. 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The failed revolution of 1861, by a slave-owning South declaring its independence from\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;The Left&quot;","block_context":{"text":"The Left","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/the-left\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11045,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-rapid-progress-of-progressivism\/","url_meta":{"origin":12524,"position":4},"title":"The Rapid \u2018Progress\u2019 of Progressivism","author":"victorhanson","date":"March 8, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review It leads to an endless race for equality and erodes prior rules.Not long ago I waited for a flight to board. The plane took off 45 minutes late. There were only two attendants to accommodate eleven passengers who had requested wheelchair assistance. 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