AFTER THE LEFTIST REIGN OF TERROR, the Deluge. “That, my friends, is the light of the end of the tunnel. Just as the monarchy famously exclaimed, ‘after us, the deluge,’ in an apparent reference to the knowledge that the people would rise up following their reign, a right-wing populist deluge is destined to follow the current reign of terror. It may also happen much sooner than any of us anticipate.”