Abolitionist John Brown leads a small group on a raid against a federal armory in Harpers Ferry, Virginia (now West Virginia), in an attempt to start an armed revolt of enslaved people and destroy the institution of slavery.
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Guest Post by Southern Sage
I just read the article by Kurt on TBP regarding the inevitability of leftist violence, and the likely end result. I had this one finished before I did. Draw your own conclusions.
Beginning at least since the election of Obama and growing with incredible intensity since the election of Donald Trump, observers across the political spectrum have recorded the ever-worsening internal political situation in the United States. It has now become obvious to all but the most obtuse and clueless pundits that our country is approaching a great and terrible watershed. It is in the nature of such things that nobody can predict where, when or how the final explosion will come but it is beyond any reasonable question that it will.
At each of these great gates of history, eighty to a hundred years apart, a similar generational drama unfolded. Four archetypes, aligned in the same order – elder Prophet, midlife Nomad, young adult Hero, child Artist – together produced the most enduring legends in our history. Each time the Grey Champion appeared marked the arrival of a moment of “darkness, and adversity, and peril,” the climax of the Fourth Turning of the saeculum. – The Fourth Turning – Strauss & Howe
In September 2015 I wrote a five part article called Fourth Turning: Crisis of Trust. In Part 2 of that article I pondered who might emerge as the Grey Champion, leading the country during the second half of this Fourth Turning Crisis. I had the above pictures of Franklin, Lincoln, and FDR, along with a flaming question mark. The question has been answered. Donald J. Trump is the Grey Champion.