Michael Malice

He never forgot that he was an amazing strategist, had a very high opinion of himself.

Well, that was the moment.

That was like, all right, we are the government now.

And now we have to make it, you know, like Thomas Jefferson said, I think it was Thomas Jefferson, no, it was Ben Franklin, a republic, if you can keep it, it's like, all right.

We've made our own kind of government if we can keep it because that was the big question.

You had an international blockade.

You had the white armies, the czarist forces who want to restore czarism or at least the parliament from right before Lenin took over.

So this was a big kind of no one's was, you know, in some ways it was like the 2016 election.

It's like, all right, we vote in Trump.

Well, what's this going to look like?

Like no one had any idea of what a Trump presidency was going to look like.

All we knew was this guy's on Twitter running his mouth.

He's insulting people.

And he's had all these views, some are over here, some over there.

True.

It was Putin and the gremlin.

So Trotsky was, you know, Lenin's right-hand man.

And he was, you know, enormous.

And to this day, he remains this kind of figure who is...

supposedly a less authoritarian, anti-Stalinist version of communism that people can endorse.