Title : Quickies: A Time For Battle
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Quickies: A Time For Battle
Please bear with me for a few hundred words, Gentle Reader. I’m furious, and I need to get it out.
My recent pieces have prompted several readers to write to me that I’ve “lost my moderation” and really need to “cool it.” The general tenor of their “advice” is either that there’s no need to go to war with the Left (because we’re currently in the ascendant), or that we can’t afford to go to war with the Left (because the public will react against us).
I disagree with these claims:
- I haven’t “lost my moderation;” I’ve shelved it for the duration of the present emergency.
- Patriotic Americans have a fingernail grip on the federal government, and some supposed allies have been working against us.
- Whatever their politics, there’s nothing Americans despise more than a coward.
When Patrick Henry stated on the floor of the Virginia legislature that “the war is already begun,” he was stating a truth: an unpleasant truth to be sure, but a truth: an accurate statement of an objective fact. The facts of our time are much the same: The Left is already at war with us. Its activists have deployed every tactic and every weapon at their command in this political “battle of the bulge.”
We cannot afford to hang back any longer. A war that’s being fought by only one side has a predetermined outcome.
When masked and armed Leftists physically assault persons attending public events dedicated to freedom of expression, what possible argument can there be for not meeting their violence with violence of our own? When university officials and media figures routinely excuse the masked, armed Leftists, implicitly accepting their claim that the violence we suffer is our fault, how can we sit silently rather than giving their calumnies the appropriate responses?
When scum such as failed comedienne Kathy Griffin make “humor” out of the beheading of President Trump, why is it incumbent upon us to be courteous? When morons such as Alec Baldwin and Stephen Colbert grotesquely insult the president, why must we be moderate in response? When a black racialist huckster and open Communist such as Van Jones characterizes Trump’s election as a “whitelash” against a black president and accuses President Trump of “treasonous language,” why are we obliged to sit quietly rather than to call him out for what he is? When actual terrorist Bill Ayres calls Christian conservatives hypocrites for our political stances, why are we required not to answer in kind?
If I were an “unaligned American,” unwilling to commit to either party but attentive to the national discourse, to the policies enacted by the two parties, and to their demonstrable effects, I would be inclined to write off most of the Right as cowards, unwilling to stand in our own defense. Especially the “NeverTrump” quislings who claim to be conservatives but blanch when the Trump Administration delivers the policies – and the results – that they’ve prattled about for decades but never, in all their years of prominence, provided.
“The law of the jungle” is that of the moral vacuum: that state of affairs in which civilized laws and norms – i.e., the laws and norms of the Christian Enlightenment – have no (or inadequate) defenders. The conception separates societies ruled by mere force from those in which “rule,” as such, is rooted in the Enlightenment principle of individuals’ rights as superior to the claims of power and groups, married to the Christian Law of General Benevolence.
If the American Republic, the most faithful political instantiation of the Christian Enlightenment, is to survive, it must be defended. To quote a vaguely remembered figure of modest political importance:
“If not us, who? If not now, when?” – Ronald Reagan
It’s time we got the lead out.
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