V.I. Lenin (1917) “Better that this country should lose. Better that Kaiserism (Germany) wins than that Tsarism (old Russia) continues.” — V.I. Lenin, from Netflix’s 2017 “The Russian Revolution” Today, doesn’t it seem that progressives want “this country should lose"? As in, “Better that Socialism wins than that Freedom continues.” Revolution — in Tsarist Russia, in America — depends upon first destroying the established order. A recent Issues & Insights editorial says : we didn’t surrender to the Soviets. We have simply handed power to the left. The hard (and unrelenting) left controls most of the media, sets the tone for popular culture, and has hegemonized most of our institutions and many of our businesses. So it seems. As Stanford Hoover Institution’s Victor Davis Hanson writes : “Sovietization” .   .   .  refers to the subordination of policy, expression, popular culture, and even thought to ideological mandates. Ultimately such regimentation destroy...