He just misses telling the horrible truth that the anti-democratic right are the legitimate offspring of their elders and legitimators in spite of themselves, the anti-democratic left.
It happened in Spain.
It happened in Weimar.
The Trap The Democrats Walked Right Into
But here’s one thing I have absolutely no conflict about.
Rioting and lawlessness is evil. And any civil authority that permits, condones or dismisses violence, looting and mayhem in the streets disqualifies itself from any legitimacy.
This comes first.
If one party supports everything I believe in but doesn’t believe in maintaining law and order all the time and everywhere, I’ll back a party that does.
In that sense, I’m a one-issue voter, because without order, there is no room for any other issue.
Disorder always and everywhere begets more disorder; the minute the authorities appear to permit such violence, it is destined to grow.
And if liberals do not defend order, fascists will.
I don't live where the rioters are running free, and I doubt AS does.
And my one issue is that I will never vote for a party sworn to kill me, but will instead vote for the party sworn to keep me alive.
I crucially need both Social Security and Medicare to avoid ending my life sleeping in an alley, fighting stray dogs for pizza out of a dumpster.
The GOP is profoundly devoted to destroying both of those, called "entitlements", by the way, because having paid to support both all our working lives we who now depend on them are entitled to count on them.
And so far the Dems are committed to coming through for us.
And as I’ve watched protests devolve over the summer into a series of riots, arson expeditions, and lawless occupations of city blocks, along with disgusting and often racist profanity, I’ve begun to feel similarly.
And when I watched the Democratic Convention and heard close to nothing about ending this lawlessness, I noted the silence.
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When a political party finds itself so wedded to a new and potent ideology it cannot call out violence when it sees it, then it is walking straight into a trap.
When the discourse on the left has become one in which scholars and editors and Tweeters vie with one another to up the ante on how inherently evil America has always been, redescribe it as a slaveocracy, and endorse racist books that foment the most egregious stereotypes about “whiteness”, most ordinary people, who love their country and are mostly proud of its past, will rightly balk.
One of the most devastating lines in president Trump’s convention speech last night was this:
“Tonight, I ask you a very simple question: How can the Democrat Party ask to lead our country when it spends so much time tearing down our country?”
A cheap shot, yes.
But in the current context, a political bullseye.
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And look at the icons Trump invoked: Wyatt Earp, Annie Oakley, Davy Crockett, and Buffalo Bill. You can mock.
But in the midst of a culture being redescribed by the left as a form of foul and relentless “white supremacy”, and in a moment of arson and rioting, it felt like a kind of balm.
All this reassurance played out against a backdrop of Kenosha, which was burning, and Minneapolis, where a suicide led to a bout of opportunistic looting, and Washington DC, where mobs of wokesters went through the city chanting obscenities, invading others’ spaces, demanding bystanders raise fists in solidarity, with occasional spasms of violence.
These despicable fanatics, like it or not, are now in part the face of the Democrats: a snarling bunch of self-righteous, entitled bigots, chanting slogans rooted in pseudo-Marxist claptrap, erecting guillotines — guillotines! — in the streets as emblems of their agenda.
They are not arguing; they are attempting to coerce.
And liberals, from the Biden campaign to the New York Times, are too cowardly and intimidated to call out these bullies and expel them from the ranks.
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It was a sign that the establishment left were willing to tolerate disorder and chaos if they were directed toward the ideologically correct ends — which is how Democratic establishments in Minneapolis and Seattle and Portland responded.
The NYT, CNN and the rest tried to ignore the inexcusable, and find increasingly pathetic ways to dismiss it.
This week, their staggering bias was exposed as absurd.
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And let’s be frank about this and call this by its name: this is very Weimar.
The center has collapsed.
Armed street gangs of far right and far left are at war on the streets.
Tribalism is intensifying in every nook and cranny of the culture.
The establishment right and mainstream left tolerate their respective extremes because they hate each other so much.
And so on.
He pretty much predicts the worst, even if Biden wins.
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