Francis’ views coded reactionary on substance but revolutionary in method. He understood that his tactics were closer to Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin than Edmund Burke. And it wasn’t just him. Over the last 50 years or so, left-wing revolutionary ideas have entered what the Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci called the “spontaneous philosophy,” and what we would call the cultural atmosphere. MAGA has profited by exploiting these ideas in order to destroy the left.