Richard Fernandez
Though it is common to describe the past two years as a "revolt from the right" they have also been times of a very real uprising on the left. From ideologues who have seen their principles betrayed to apparatchiks who feel robbed of their deserts, the revolutionaries are revolting. The image of Donna Brazile finding the DNC coffers empty of everything but pawn tickets captures the shock operatives must feel upon realizing the big payday they counted on isn't going to happen. The activists can't be happy either. Not only isn't the long overdue socialist paradise never going to come, but they must feel like fools for believing the political, entertainment and media celebrities who promised it now they stand revealed as scoundrels.
The "deplorables" have long sensed something was awry, the difference is the elite institutions are now feeling it too.
Yet with the notable exception of the Navy, which realized it had to up its game to survive against both the perils of the sea and the action of the enemy, much of the response to the growing spate of disasters has been to reach reflexively for the fix. The nostrums are depressingly old whether firing the special prosecutor to stop the indictments, pushing Silicon Valley into censoring everyone or feeling sorry that poor Hillary was hacked by mean old Putin. The urge to make it go away, to be the victim in chief rather than commander in chief still reigns supreme.
If that could stop the rot it would make sense; but it won't. The Narrative is dime a dozen. Sense is the one thing in short supply.
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