Trumpism is not so much an expression of a revolution as a counter-revolution, says author

Trumpism is not so much an expression of a revolution as a counter-revolution, writes Julian Zelizer .

Zelizer: The French Revolution became the prototype of a post-Enlightenment break with Judeo-Christian ethics.

He says there are striking parallels between the events of the French Revolution and its Russian counterpart.

In both cases, on the one hand, there were revolutionary forces trying to reshape an entire country, gripped by utopian fantasies, whatever the human cost.

U.S. has had its own piecemeal revolution since Obama came to power in 2009 , writes Julian Zelizer .

Zelizer : Since Obama , Americans have endured a revolution intended to dissolve any sense of national identity, cut it off from Western civilization, and drown it in multiculturalism.

At its core, therefore, it is as totalitarian, anti-human, and evil as ever.