Boehner found himself playing the role of Count Mirabeau, or, perhaps, Alexander Kerensky, a reformer rapidly outflanked by genuine revolutionaries.

Durant: “B/c the left shamelessly follows Kerensky’s dictum: No enemies to the left. & the right is still learning how to win.”

Menshevik Kerensky was present in Petrograd when there began a curiously leaderless and random series of riots and disorders among the people and local soldiery.