Getting Dragged, Kicking and Screaming, to the Cause of Revolution
Published at 16:35 on 3 April 2025
That is my summary of where career conservative J.V. Last is right now. Late last month he wrote an essay which included the following:
The Democratic party has more to learn from Alexei Navalny or the protesters in Serbia than it does from Chuck Schumer or strategists obsessing over message-testing crosstabs. This battle is half mass mobilization and half asymmetric warfare. Over the next year those tactics will matter more than traditional political messaging as it has been practiced here in living memory.
Granted, he still has faith in the Democratic Party that I don’t have, but he’s not really that far from what I have already concluded here earlier. It took about four years for the corpse to start stinking badly enough for even some conservatives to now realize it, but here we are.
Inconvenient facts are curious things. They don’t become any less inconvenient when you ignore them. Quite the contrary, in fact.
And make no mistake: I am glad to see individuals like Last finally start coming on board. It’s what growing a movement looks like.