For centuries now, revolutions—be they violent or be they peaceful—have been the modus operandi of the elite who fancy themselves as benevolent. The dyed-in-the-wool Left have fully adopted this position of noble elites guiding the peasants for their own, greater good in an enlightened new feudalism. Rather than preserve checks and balances and the rights they protect, the new purported rulers sought centralization and rule by the enlightened with power to be wielded like a weapon if need be. In this view, the government is meant to impose the correct thinking and beliefs. And this drive for beneficent overlordship by both technological exploitation and a myriad of hydra heads striking independently, is a culmination of that long march through the institutions that seek to overthrow by through the very institutions that stood against them.
But differences in the methods or the particular eschaton being immanentized do not and can not alter the core problem: The enlightened few, acting for the sake of the greater or common good, seeking not to constrain the exercise of abusive power but to coopt that power to defeat the hated abusers. This is the lure of Tolkien’s One Ring. This is true even in democratic forms.
An existing system implemented imperfectly, as all systems by nature are, is vastly superior to an idealized system. To fight an ideology that exploits and seeks to replace a superlative if imperfect framework responsible for much of America’s greatness by exploiting and replacing it yourself is to become the very threat that you seek to fight.
