One of the most important lessons I learned from reading Bertrand de Jouvenel’s On Power is that revolutions happen against weak regimes, not against strong ones. This is not the romanticized version of history that we frequently get from the media or the schools. George III, Louis XVI, and Nicholas II have all been portrayed as terrible tyrants over which a ragtag team of plucky revolutionaries managed, against all odds, to be victorious. The truth is rather different. In fact, these were all weak leaders. The Czar’s secret police, the Okhrana, consisted of only a few thousand agents in a country of 140 million.

Another lesson I learned from reading de Jouvenel is that the revolutionaries always replace weak authoritarian regimes with strong ones (yes, that’s even true of the American Revolution: does anyone seriously think we’re freer today than we were under George III?). Under the communists in Russia, the number of secret police swelled to hundreds of thousands, but the peaceful overthrow of communism in Europe in the 1980s and 1990s resulted from the fact that these regimes were no longer as strong as once had been.

When the Soviet Union collapsed I remember my shock quite well. I had spent all my life living in a world divided between the West and a great grey and sinister unknown that lay behind the Iron Curtain. Everyone believed, myself included, that the Soviet Union was eternal, in just the same way we believe America is eternal. And then, suddenly, a shift took place. Whereas once the citizens of communist regimes had been terrified to voice dissent, more and more began to. They smelled blood. They sensed that the regime had become weak. They no longer believed the lies.

The communist countries eventually arrived at a point that has been much commented on, where the people knew that the regime was lying to them and the regime knew that they knew, yet kept on telling the same lies. Sound familiar? Such a situation is not sustainable, especially when those who have been tyrannized over are literally able to look over a wall and see that the grass really is greener on the other side. They had been promised for years that their own grass would get greener but it never happened. It was obvious to everyone that communism was a failure.

I was reminded of all of this just the other day when I was talking with a friend about our glorious new renaissance of anti-Semitism. Very often in the last few months both of us have uttered some version or other of the following sentiment, “If you had told me twenty years ago that people today would be talking the way that they were talking I would have thought you mad – or, at the very least, impossibly naïve.” When I first got involved in what my friends and I call “the movement,” about twenty-five years ago, most of what we did was sit around with other likeminded folks, hang our heads and say, “When are people going to wake up?”

I have now come to the happy conclusion that it is time to retire this question. There no longer is a need to ask it, because it does indeed seem that people are waking up. Honestly, I did not think that I would live to see this, but prominent and influential individuals are now openly discussing the problem of Jewish power in surprisingly frank terms. My readers are too familiar with this phenomenon to need me to summarize it for them, but I will mention that I am thinking of figures like Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens, Mark Dice, and others. And it is not just about the Jewish question that people are waking up. Mark Dice, who is frankly anti-Semitic and has 1.9 million subscribers on YouTube, is also totally red pilled on race and the insuperable problems posed by a society that includes blacks.

To my knowledge, however, no one has noticed something very obvious about this extraordinary phenomenon: it would not be occurring if Jewish power were not already slipping. Make no mistake, the Jews are still extraordinarily wealthy and powerful. But this frank and open backlash against them would not be taking place if the aforementioned influencers, and others like them, genuinely feared the Jews. To be sure, people like Tucker Carlson are still choosing their words rather carefully, preferring to talk about “Israel” rather than “the Jews.” Yet Carlson has said on his podcast that for years he avoided talking about this issue. Now he is talking about it with a great deal of openness, as are Owens and others.

Why? What changed? Carlson had once feared Jewish power and feared the consequences of speaking out against it. Now he fears it less. This is due to a constellation of factors. Jews still effectively control mainstream media, but, despite their best efforts they cannot control the internet. And if one just spends a little bit of time online one will find that there is absolutely no reason for any anti-Semite to feel lonely today.

There is strength in numbers. There are some who will not speak out because they think that they are alone, or at least that there are not many that share their views. So long as they fear that if they stuck their necks out others will not come to their defense, then they will not speak. But when they are see others openly expressing their most forbidden thoughts, people on both sides of the political spectrum, when they see that their own thoughtcrime is on the way to becoming genuinely mainstream, they get a lot bolder.

Again, echoing de Jouvenel, such dissent is not launched against strong tyrannies but against those that have become weak. John Mearsheimer has recently made a similar point, arguing that Israel is already finished because public support for the Jewish state has now cratered. Given Jewish arrogance it is difficult to see how they are going to be able to get themselves out of this pickle.

The point I am making may seem obvious to you, but sometimes it is important to state the obvious. The recent remarkable upsurge in criticism of the Jews involves drawing the public’s attention to Jewish power. But this upsurge in criticism would not be taking place if Jewish power weren’t already beginning to weaken. This is very good news indeed, and I have stopped my constant whining about wanting to go back to the 1970s.

https://counter-currents.com/2025/08/the-end-of-jewish-power