The question itself is a provocation, but a useful one. Lenin or Trotsky? The revolutionary who built the apparatus or the revolutionary who wanted to set the world on fire?
Lenin was the architect. Cold, calculating, patient. He understood that revolution required structure, discipline, the ruthless application of power through a vanguard party that would brook no opposition. He believed in seizing the state and using it to crush the old order completely before building something new. No half measures. No compromises. The ends justified any means, and the ends were total control.
Trotsky was the firebrand. Permanent revolution. The idea that the revolution could not stop at borders, that it must spread endlessly until the whole world was remade. He was the orator, the writer, the romantic of the revolution. He believed in the masses, in the inexorable march of history, in the purity of the cause. And for his trouble, he was exiled and murdered by the man who understood that romanticism is a liability in power.
So which does Comrade Joe think he is?
The evidence suggests he doesn’t think at all. He is the dimwitted front man, the face for a group swept up in revolutionary dreams that he neither understands nor articulates. The policies bear the fingerprints of people who have read their history, who know what they want, who are methodically transforming the United States into something unrecognizable.
Gun control that slides toward confiscation. Not registration, not background checks, but the steady erosion of the Second Amendment until only the state has weapons.
Inflation that pauperizes the masses, creating desperate dependence on government checks. Not an accident, not a policy error, but a tool. When people cannot feed themselves without help, they stop asking questions.
Energy prices driven up by design, reducing standards of living, forcing Americans into smaller lives with smaller expectations. Joe gloried in this yesterday: “This is just a transition that Americans have to go through.” A transition to what? To less. To dependence. To a future where the state controls everything because the people control nothing.
The armed forces were subjected to forced politicization, transformed from a fighting force into an instrument of social policy. Name changes for army posts that strip them of local meaning, of history, of the things that bind soldiers to the places they defend. The goal is not a better military. The goal is a military that answers to the revolution, not to the country.
Trotsky believed in endless revolution. The permanent upheaval. The constant churn. To the extent that Joe believes in anything, Trotsky is the better model. Lenin at least had an endgame. Trotsky wanted the fire to keep burning forever.
Harris? She has no models and no thoughts. She is a cipher, present for demographic reasons, absent for any substantive purpose. The people running this operation don’t need her to think. They need her to be there, to check boxes, to provide cover for the real work being done by others.
Reagan thought it was morning in America. Rubbish, perhaps, but it was a vision. It was something. This administration has no vision beyond transformation for its own sake. They do not know what they are building. They only know what they are tearing down.
That is the most dangerous kind of revolutionary. Not the one with a plan. The one who mistakes destruction for progress.
