From Ruling Class to Oligarchy
In the following article, Angelo Codevilla clarifies that the existential battle being waged in America is not between Democrats and Republicans, not between Trump and anti-Trumpers, but is rather between the elite ruling oligarchy and the American citizenry.
Americans who have been conditioned by the Democrat Party, leftist mainstream media, and corporate media censors have been duped into fighting against their own interests.
By its campaign and conduct of the 2020 election, the ruling class ceased pretending to be part of a constitutional republic....
In short, during the Obama years the ruling class was becoming an oligarchy that ruled by exercising the powers of government and of incumbency in corporations as well as all manner of social institutions....
Donald Trump’s surprising victory proved to be the catalyst for this oligarchy to articulate itself into something that was able to transcend our constitutional republic altogether....
This [Democratic Party] resistance was powerfully sustained in the middle by countless corporate executives, government employees, editors, and reporters. The convergence of so many like-minded people quickly and decisively transmuted a political tactic into the replacement of a republic with an oligarchy....
Because this revolution involved subordinating truth itself to political power, it effected negation of civilization itself.
... It had been clear to that class that Trump was dangerous only because he represented his “deplorable” supporters....
Arguably the American country [non-rliyr] class’ principal mistake between 2016 and 2020 was to suppose that the Left was actually after Trump, rather than set about crushing them and killing the American regime....
When the coronavirus hit, Americans did not realize how thoroughly their ruling class had already jelled into an oligarchy with the intention above all to crush them....
But even plagues, once endemic, follow ineluctable courses through populations. Thus, by following the ignorant promise of safety through masks, etc. did conservatives at first agree to suspend face-to-face relationships. They suffered to disarticulate social life even more than economic life...
And then Election Night. As predicted, election officials in places controlled by the Left stopped counting until it was clear how many ballots it would take for Trump to be defeated. The requisite number came, filled out by no one knows who...
About Angelo Codevilla
Angelo M. Codevilla is a senior fellow of the Claremont Institute, professor emeritus of international relations at Boston University and the author of To Make And Keep Peace (Hoover Institution Press, 2014).
Angelo Codevilla is author of the book The Ruling Class: How They Corrupted America and What We Can Do About It Paperback, 2010.