This is what I mean by over-optimistic insanity. They are getting stronger, and the only “immolating” will be the burning of us heretics.

“Were the GOP to die today, secessionary disintegration of the USA would be a certainty.”

An impossibility can never be a certainty, and “secessionary disintegration of the USA” is most definitely impossible (at least, impossible until after the irreversible destruction of industrial civilization).

How, exactly, does this follow? I mean, this seems beyond hopelessly optimistic, and into the realm of outright insane. How would this do anything but accelerate the rate at which the Cathedral exterminates us heretics?

As far as Narodnaya Volya is concerned, won’t the “no enemies to the Left” strategy help there? Weathermen and Black Panthers have already been inducted into the Brahmin elite, so I’m not sure where the angry leftist outsiders are expected to come from.

The point is to use monetary incentives to kill people, so the people who actually do the killing aren’t political assassins. The assassins would be impartial and could be totally apolitical. They’d just be getting an honest day’s pay for an honest day’s work. People like money, but they don’t like risking their lives to kill someone or getting caught. A political figure might have the best security detail, bodyguards, etc. and thus protect himself from outsiders getting to him, but the assassination market would mean that insiders who are closest to him and are in the best position to bump him off would have secure incentives to do so. His own security, associates, partners, lovers, friends, family, etc. could now be monetarily incentivized much more easily and securely. This would make being a political figure much less appealing.

Greece is instructive here. A Golden Dawn member whacked an anti-fascist rapper, so the Greek government cracked down on Golden Dawn. Then two Golden Dawn members got whacked and the Greek government didn’t care.

America is much more machinic than Russia. (This is a problem for its future: is there anyone who can replace Putin? Does he have a dynastic transition set up? Or, better, is he building machines?) There aren’t significant oligarchs to whack, and the least insignificant of them all are on the right. It’d probably make more of a difference if the Kochs got whacked than if Soros did. What would Putin do? Probably exile a few oligarchs, but probably also shut down Harvard and reinvest its endowment.