Most people have been slow to realize just how awesome a sea change has taken place in the domestic political scene….The public still has little sense of how radical our leading politicians really are….Just before putting this book to bed, I discovered a volume that describes the situation almost perfectly….an old book by, of all people, Henry Kissinger….
In the first few pages, Kissinger describes the problems confronting a heretofore stable diplomatic system when it is faced with a “revolutionary power” — a power that does not accept that system’s legitimacy….It seems clear to me that one should regard America’s right-wing movement…as a revolutionary power in Kissinger’s sense….