Revolution? No, thanks.

Are Democrats not screwing up?

In reply to remarks of Steve M.

The Democratic Party is not for people who want an actual and literal revolution, and for that I am very grateful.

The only mass party in America committed to anything close enough to revolution to be a worry is actually the Republican Party, openly and often angrily committed to repeal or rollback of all, or nearly all, of the progressive changes to the constitution, government, law, and American life since the dawn of the 20th Century - all of which are defended by the Democrats.

The Trumpists differ from other Republicans not in their rejection of the actually existing America but in their level of rage, the frankness of their racial issues, and their open admiration for undemocratic, unrepublican, authoritarian leaders and regimes in comparison to, say, our own government in DC, its constitutional processes, its separation of powers, its parties, and its leaders.

The Democratic Party is committed to cumulative, incremental, and continuous improvement of the American economy, government, and society, continuing the history of progressive reform.

That actually makes it, of the two mass parties, the one more accurately called "conservative".

So, no, not revolutionary. Not at all.

Too, I posted this comment.

I think you are wrong to conflate the Trumpists with the Tea Baggers and others of the conservative movement whose shared revolutionary aim is to roll back most of the progressive changes in America since the beginning of the 20th Century, especially those diminishing the market freedom of employers, producers, and sellers, taking money from the rich, or democratizing our constitution.

The Tea Baggers and the other radicals, especially in the House, are willing to use government shutdowns and even clashes with the debt ceiling to extort concessions in their war against contemporary America.

But the Trump followers take their "patriotic" hostility to the really existing America all the way to despising our "rigged system" of democratic republicanism openly, denouncing "the system" for its "corruption" and expressing genuine admiration for authoritarian executive rule and even dictatorship.

He has not been alone, but Pat Buchanan has been very clear and very voluble in this essentially treasonous and not very crypto crypto-fascist trend on the American right and within the Republican Party.

So far as the rhetoric and attitudes of the Bernie-boy left have shared these themes they have in practise contributed to and legitimated this side of Trumpism, and have been used by the right for that purpose during and since the 2016 campaign.

The idea of left wing revolution in America is a ridiculous and childish fantasy, and was that even during the 60's and 70's.

The idea of a rightist revolution has always been more realistic and hence more menacing, and left wing revolutionary blather has only ever made revolution on the right more of a threat.