Both [Sanders and Trump] are calling for a political revolution, Sanders even more directly than Trump. But there are different kinds of political revolutions and they are fueled by different kinds of momentum. There are political revolutions of the considered spirit and political revolutions of the raw appetites. There was the Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia and there was the Committee of Public Safety in Paris. If the people caught up in the revolution are very lucky, the second form of revolution does nothing except add urgency to the first form. If they’re not lucky, the appetites overwhelm the spirit, and heads of all kinds begin to fill all kinds of baskets.

– Charlie Pierce