I’ve been thinking a lot about this over the past few days. It’s certainly resonating with a lot of people right now, who are rightly taking it as a call to action. And it is! Somehow, the unchallenged premise of the theory — that violent authoritarianism must be met with violent revolution — left me feeling a sense of unease. I do not think one violent end prevents another; in other words, violent revolution will beget more violence further along the arc of history. The cycle of viol...
