When Republics Break
What Iran, revolutionary France, and a fictional American future reveal about radical takeover
Sometimes it feels to me like the Republic is standing on a cracked foundation.
You can sense it in the air. At least I can; can you? You can hear it in the shouting on television from the talking heads and in the anger online, on TikTok, X, and YouTube. You can see it in the fear as people carry their groceries from stores, their churches, and even their schools, as well as in the streets of their cities. You watch footage of burning cars, smashed windows, masked crowds, and police backing away from chaos in big blue cities run by Marxists, and something inside you tightens. You start to ask a question that free people never want to ask: Could such an event happen here? Could a country built on law, restraint, and ordered liberty come apart from the inside?