No Time for Complacency - by Steven F. Hayward

The left will regroup, and return with a even more dangerous spirit of vengeance. - Steven F. Hayward

It is hard to know what form the left’s re-emergence will take, or how long before it comes back into full view. 

The left will “go to ground” for a while, as it has done after previous setbacks.
We’ve seen this movie before. 

• After the fall of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s, which came after the left was defeated in successive elections over the previous decade in the United States and many other western democracies, everyone rushed to declare “the end of history,” which entailed not just the final triumph democracy but also market capitalism. 
• The moment was thought to represent the final and decisive rout of socialism and revolutionary politics...

America, and much of the rest of the democratic West, began its “holiday from history,” as Charles Krauthammer put it, in which everyone foresaw open markets and rising prosperity as far as the eye could see...