Chuck Darwin"Dawn’s Early Light"
has all the misplaced confidence of a movement that’s mistaken
a 6–3 Supreme Court
and an easily played New York Times op-ed page
for some kind of mandate.
The party that has won the popular vote in a presidential election exactly once in the last 35 years
is not popular,
and people do not want what they’re selling.
When your only path to power consists in gerrymandering
and shaving tight victories in a few key swing states
while the opposition runs up the margins nearly everywhere else,
you might try for some soul-searching about why people don’t like you,
but Roberts and his Heritage Foundation have instead opted for violent threats,
claiming a “second American revolution” is coming
that will remain “bloodless” only “if the left allows it to be.”
Even though it now seems likely Roberts’s book itself is being pushed to the side,
he and his allies are still annoyingly dangerous.
Not least because people who are within striking distance of power have endorsed their message:
Trump’s running mate, J.D. Vance, wrote the book’s foreword.
That message, "Dawn’s Early Light" nakedly reveals,
is how the right plans to use paranoid, Stalinist tactics
to remake the country in its preferred image.
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