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The following short clip is of something you’ve probably heard about already:
This is a link in a chain:
...but no doubt you’ve already heard about those other two incidents, as well. Couple them to the utter refusal of any Democrat with a national platform to condemn, or even to demur from, those calls to violence, harassment, and intimidation, nor to allow that such rhetoric might be causally connected to the increasingly frequent violent assaults on Republicans, conservatives, and supporters of President Donald Trump.
The chain has other links that reach further back. You needn’t have been paying attention for long to remember the threats lodged against Brett Kavanaugh and his supporters. It’s only about a year since failed comedian Kathy Griffin displayed the simulacrum of Donald Trump’s severed head in a video. Quite a few Right-leaning speakers have been harassed or threatened out of speaking engagements these past two years, too. You only have to have taken a passing interest in the 2016 Presidential campaign to remember the threats and harassment of Trump supporters at his rallies. And remember Nobel Peace Prize winner Barack Hussein “If they bring a knife, we bring a gun” Obama?
Correlation is not causation, but it can be awfully suggestive. It gets more so when the media stoutly and steadfastly refuse to allocate the blame for left-wing mob violence, even when the assaults are captured on multiple video recordings. And what are we to think when no one to the left of center is willing to peep the slightest criticism of the masked, violent thugs that call themselves “AntiFa?”
Makes you think, doesn’t it?
The rhetoricians of violence, intimidation, and harassment may be stupid – they were certainly self-deluded enough to lose “the most winnable presidential campaign in history” – but they’re not stupid enough to believe that no one will take their exhortations literally. When the eruptions of left-wing mob behavior are as numerous, as public, and as well documented as they’ve been, there can be no serious doubt that that’s exactly what’s happening. It started on Inauguration Day. It’s only grown worse since then.
We have to assume that they know what they’re doing. We have to assume that they intend the consequences. And we have to allow them no smallest, thinnest shred of concealment from the odium they’ve earned. They must be made to wear it – in some cases, all the way to prison. What else, pray tell, are laws against incitement to riot meant for?
A few brassy persons on the Right have said things to the effect that if a real civil war should erupt, the Right will prevail, because “we have all the guns.” This is foolishness on a potentially catastrophic level. Guns don’t matter nearly as much as the willingness to accept risks to self and loved ones, or the will to fight and win regardless of the cost. What evidence do we have that the Right is adequately supplied with those things? As Right-leaning Americans tend to be rather older than their putative adversaries – men with wives, children, homes, and workplaces to worry about – the matter admits of considerable doubt.
And while we sit here complacent about our preparedness, the chain grows link by link. One end lies in the hands of men and women who are determined to return to power, and never again to be removed from it. The other is connected to the thugs and harassers, and they follow their masters’ exhortations willingly.
Counteraction is required. Perhaps it must be of the sort Mr. “If they bring a knife, we bring a gun” has prescribed for his allegiants. Perhaps something less tawdry will suffice. But we cannot preserve the Republic when only our enemies, would-be totalitarians entirely devoid of scruple determined to regain power at any price, are willing to fight.
Time to pray.
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