The second shall be first: I think this is sound principle for successful revolutions. Consider the American Revolution, which replaced an English monarch with native aristocrats. Or the failure in Iraq. Peter W. Galbraith writes:

Within a few days of his arrival, Bremer dissolved Iraq's military forces, barred the top four levels of the Baath Party from public service, and told the Iraqi leaders that there would be no handover of power. Packer quotes Garner as saying he woke up the morning of May 17 to find "three or four hundred thousand enemies and no Iraqi face on the government."