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I think that a com­mon theme among my con­ser­v­a­tive cor­re­spon­dents is: “is this the end of free elec­tions?” Will our Demo­c­ra­t­ic friends be fix­ing all the pres­i­den­tial elec­tions from here on out? Will I have to bow to the lib­er­al mob if I want a job? And so on.

I guess that I have a more opti­mistic out­look on things. But why, I asked myself? Here are a few.

First, I con­cur with Crane Brin­ton in The Anato­my of Rev­o­lu­tion. He writes that a Reign of Ter­ror is a sign that the prophe­cy of the rev­o­lu­tion — that heav­en on earth was right around the cor­ner — was failing