When the Bolsheviks were a fringe faction in February 1917, Vladimir Lenin was in exile. Practically no one in Russia believed they could form a government. When the Czar fell, the army and the provisional government revealed their inability to hold the space they previously occupied. At that time a small, disciplined minority did not require overwhelming support to take it. The Bolsheviks required an opportunity and a willingness to act in the face of dissatisfaction, and by October of 1917 they had all three.
A century later, another movement watches another party struggle to maintain its political relevance, and this movement is wasting little time seizing its opening.
What is that opening?
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