The Fall of a Dynasty
On Wednesday, January 6, 2021, the Marxists’ dream came true. A vast mob stormed and occupied the Capitol in Washington, D.C. Ordinary Americans sat in seats reserved for the rich and powerful. But instead of carrying banners saying “Marx, Mao, and Marcuse,” the flags of the people bore only one name: Trump. Oops.
As usual, the Left forgot the old rule that what’s sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander. After watching Leftist mobs riot, loot, and burn in too many of our cities last summer, the Right decided to play by the same rules, except that we did not loot or commit arson. The single party, the Republicrat Establishment party, rose as one to condemn the violence. In doing so, they revealed why the dynasty they represent is falling: it is caught up in a crisis of legitimacy it cannot even acknowledge much less understand.
The root cause of the crisis of legitimacy is the Establishment’s attempt to use the power of the state to force cultural Marxism, a.k.a. political correctness or “wokeism”, down every American’s throat. Since cultural Marxism seeks to destroy the Christian religion, Western culture, and the white race, it is not surprising ordinary Americans are not going along. The battle is, for us, existential: cultural Marxism wants to make us choose between groveling before its “victim” groups or getting sent to a concentration camp.
From this perspective, the occupation of the Capitol is less important than the unbelievable, schoolboy error of a Capitol Hill pro, Senator Mitch McConnell, in allowing Republican Senators to become the only obstacle standing between most Americans and a check for $2000. Of course the Republican Party lost both Georgia Senate races. What else do you expect when people see their choice as between getting $2000 instead of $600, McConnell had no choice but to go along. His refusal to do so was so dumb one has to wonder whether it was typical Republican stupidity or calculation. Was he willing to lose control of the Senate to the Democrats just to besmirch President Trump’s legacy? Stranger things have happened in Washington.
The effect of handing the Senate to the Democrats is to put the Left in a position to enact its radical agenda, which will push the system’s crisis of legitimacy to the breaking point and probably beyond it. If they vote to end the filibuster, then ram through statehood for the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico on bare majority votes, the Senate will lose what legitimacy it has left in the eyes of conservatives. If they then use the larger majority four new Democratic Senators will give them to pack the Supreme Court, all three branches of the federal government will be widely seen as illegitimate. At that juncture, what happened at the Capitol on January 6 will seem like a tea party.
All this now lands in the lap of President Joe Biden. His instinct will be to govern from the center, but without a Republican Senate he will be hard-pressed to explain to the “woke” crowd why he is not enacting their agenda. If he yields to their demands, he stokes the system's crisis of legitimacy.
All this mess and more, including an overextended foreign policy, armed services that usually lose, institutions that require vast inputs for very small outputs and ever-looser and more valueless money are classic signs of the end of a dynasty. In our case, the dynasty is a Washington-Wall Street-Hollywood oligarchy coupled to a vastly more powerful federal government than the one envisioned in our Constitution. What will replace it I do not know, but it will not be cultural Marxism. We are waiting either for our Augustus or our Hitler.