Dreher on MSP, the Bolshies, and the Deep State

It's not often that I read--or quote--Dreher.  But when Dreher calls the Mayor of Minneapolis a "Pajama Boy", ............well, OK, I'll pay attention.

He wanders into the Russian Revolution, quoting from his own book:

...“I don’t understand how anybody could have believed what the Bolsheviks promised,” I said glibly.
“You don’t understand it?” said the father at the head of the table. “Let me explain it to you.” He then launched into a three hundred-year historical review that ended with the 1917 Revolution. It was a pitiless tale of rich and powerful elites, including church bureaucrats, treating peasants little better than animals.

“The Bolsheviks were evil,” the father said. “But you can see where they came from.”...

So the Russians were willing to buy anything--the Bolshies--in exchange.  OK.

But here's where it gets to be a lot more fun.

... It really was incredible, how blind the ruling class was to all the deep problems in the country. If they didn’t care for the masses’ welfare, okay, but at least they should have had a sense of self-preservation. They didn’t. They thought the social order with themselves at the top — I’m not simply talking here about the royal family and the aristocracy — would last forever. They refused to see the sources of legitimate outrage....

That happens to be a very damned good description of the D.C./NY/SFO crowd if I ever read one.

Think Dreher was writing a justification for Trump-ism?

Nah.  But he could have.