Certain kinds of people are born revolutionaries. So when the Democrats ipped over from revolutionary class to ruling class, when they shifted from (say) defunding the police to funding the Capitol Police93, the born revolutionaries got o the bus. Its not necessarily any one issue like the police, or military, or COVID restrictions, or regulations the trigger is dierent for each person but the common theme is that the born revolutionary just has a problem with what they perceive as irrational authority. 92The fact that the same two tribes keep ghting periodically over at least 400 years means we might reconceptualize the specic reasons for their ght as more irreducibly tribal than passingly ideological, more like Hatelds and McCoys than any grand battle of ideas. In this framework, if one tribe adopts left tactics the other must adopt right tactics, and vice versa. 93Yes, the ip was already baked many years before this, but this is a particularly obvious public example. 127 128

CHAPTER 2. HISTORY AS TRAJECTORY

Visualize the startup founder who just cannot adjust to a big company after an acquisition, or the writer who just refuses to hold back a story because of his editors political demurrals. Born revolutionaries of this stripe include Glenn Greenwald, Matt Taibbi, Jack Dorsey, Elon Musk, and many Substackers and tech founders. They just cant bend to the establishment. But they also have real disagreements with each other, which is why theyre independents, and why they cant mouth a party line. So the born revolutionary is really far more anti-establishment, and hence today antiDemocrat, than pro-Republican. Many of the most accomplished in tech and media share this characteristic they dont want to listen to authority because they think they know better, and in their case they often actually do. Theyre fundamentally insubordinate and disobedient, rule breakers and novelty seekers, ideological rather than tribal, founders rather than followers and thus sand in the gears of any establ