Source: The Atlantic
by Anne Applebaum
“Revolutions have a logic. The revolutionaries start with a big, transformative, impossible goal. They want to remake society, smash existing institutions, replace them with something different. They know they will do damage on the road to their utopia, and they know people will object. Committed to their ideology, the revolutionaries pursue their goals anyway. Inevitably, a crisis appears. … it forces the revolutionaries to make a choice. Give up — or radicalize. Find compromises — or polarize society further. Slow down — or use violence. … Like his revolutionary predecessors, Trump has chosen radicalization and polarization, and he is openly seeking to provoke violence.” (06/11/25)