Tyler has a lot of good things to say about the topics we’ve both been seeing on the political stage. Plus he says some good things about me, so how can I resist.
The State of the Right, Part II: Dissident Right and Civic Nationalists
Category: Current Events
Identity Politics and Civic Nationalism – Part 1
One of the most troubling aspects of the America we now live in is the racial animosity exhibited almost universally across the whole spectrum of political ideologies. Of course, the Marxists and their descendants, the Progressives, have perfected it into a weapon that they use to inflame hatred against Americans of European Descent or as we used to call them Americans. But the fallout of this multi-generational strategy is that their opponents, especially on the very farthest edges of the Right Wing are learning to use this same tactic in reverse. A whole generation of Alt-Right and Dissident Right ideologues are focusing on racial identity politics and the tactics of racial polarization to the exclusion of almost anything else. In fact, this idea that racial identity will trump all other ways of uniting and dividing people has actually made headway among formerly “color-blind” conservatives. My read on this is that rather than any effective proselytizing by the Dissident Right, the real catalyst for this transformation was the racial animus and partisanship demonstrated by the Obama Administration during the Black Lives Matter and other teachable moments that our “Dear Leader” talked down to us about.
In that sense I somewhat understand the depth of the hatred that has developed along the racial divide. The behavior by the Justice Department in fueling these fake police incidents was outrageous and did enormous harm by throwing fuel on the already hot flashpoints that exist in the crime ridden ghettos where the police are just about all that stands between poor people and the law of the jungle.
But what it has turned into on the Dissident Right is a conviction that civic life and law and order cannot transcend differences between people of different races and ethnicities. The more thoughtful voices in that community do not contend that we are headed for some kind of civil war or balkanization of the United States. They talk more about individual states ignoring laws that they do not agree with and going their own way on these things. In fact, this is not that different from what California and some other places have already done on immigration law with their so-called sanctuary cities.
What this all amounts to is the Dissident Right declaring that the Progressives have outmaneuvered the Right by increasing legal and illegal immigration to the point that they will have a permanent dominance over electoral power and will use it to create a permanent grievance machine to disenfranchise Americans of European Descent by punitive means such as affirmative action and other discriminatory policies.
Are they right?
I prefer to think that they’re not. My read on this is that the situation has been exacerbated by Republican “leaders” who actually seem to buy into the fairness of minority identity politics out of some kind of ancestral guilt or because they see electoral advantage in joining the progressives. The proof of this can be seen in the success of a civic nationalist like Trump who isn’t guilted into kowtowing to illegal immigration out of fear of being called a racist. Once you disarm the Progressives of that weapon you find out that the majority of Americans, even in Blue States, want immigration laws to be obeyed.
I contend if the Right forcefully advocates for full enforcement of immigration laws and the elimination of reverse discrimination policies by the government and other entities, it will go a long way toward lowering tensions between the various groups living in the United States and will allow people to start thinking of each other as neighbors and not potential enemies.
Am I right? I can’t claim I’m sure. I think the next few years will be indicative of whether the Dissident Right is correct or whether there’s still time to fix the mess we’re in. And believe me, I don’t minimize how bad things have become. On the worst days, I shake my head and look at maps to see where I can move to that will allow me to stave off the worst of it for a little longer.
In the second part of this I’ll look a little more closely at the specifics of the Dissident Right’s logic and compare it to my own way of looking at where we are.
On-Line Article Review – American Thinker – Four Reasons Why the Dems Will Lose in 2020
Someone named Dennis Lund has written a reasonably succinct and pretty convincing summary of what factors should make Trump’s re-election likely.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/04/four_reasons_why_the_dems_will_lose_in_2020.html
He breaks it down this way:
- OVERPLAYING THEIR HAND
- A RADICAL AGENDA
- ANTI-AMERICAN PERCEPTION
- THE ECONOMY IS HUMMING
I’ve read a lot of this kind of stuff but this one is balanced, not overly long and after you read it you actually think he makes good points and isn’t just preaching to the choir.
On-Line Article Review – Conrad Black – What the Mueller Probe Really Means
https://nationalinterest.org/feature/what-mueller-probe-really-means-53582
Conrad Black has been one of the President’s staunchest supporter. Now he explains why the AG’s investigation of the investigators or more accurately the conspirators responsible for this outrageous witch hunt is sure to be very interesting.
The subtitle for the article is “The real fireworks will only begin now as Trump seeks to investigate the investigators.”
Here’s a taste of what he says is in store for the Anti-Trump conspirators:
“The country is unlikely to have much patience with any more investigations of Trump. But it will be startled by the findings of the inspector general of the Justice Department, Mr. Michael E. Horowitz’s next report, and possibly by the mysterious special counsel John Huber (of Salt Lake City) looking into the Uranium and related activities of the Clinton Foundation for the last eighteen months, and by Attorney General William Barr and the Senate Judiciary Committee’s inquiries into how this destructive smear job was launched against the president in the first place. Some combination of those investigations is going to lay bare this entire sordid business, and some swollen and much-talking heads will roll.”
All I can say is, Conrad, from your mouth to God’s ear.
Easter 2019 – OCF Update
Good Morning to all of you out there. Today is a day for family here, as it always has been for me. We’ll have a meal with the kids and grandkids, some in-laws and even some family coming up from New York. It should be nice. The weather has been rainy the last few days but the forecast says it will stop and the sun may even appear. The first daffodils have bloomed in the yard (we’re always about two weeks behind the rest of the world here in the “Land of the Lost”). Turkeys have been walking around in the woods and even stopping by Camera Girl’s bird feeders. The Mallards have retuned from Capistrano (or wherever they go) and are eating whatever goo they find in the puddle. Still no sign of the beaver yet (smart money is that the coyotes got him). To quote from that memorable philosopher George Costanza, “Spring. Rejuvenation. Rebirth. Everything’s Blooming. All That Crap.”
For photos I’ve got to get some new stuff together. Even I’m butterflied out (or is it butterflown?). I have some flower stuff that is appropriate but I’ll need to do some shooting soon. Maybe I’ll look for something old that will be interesting.
On the politics side things are definitely looking interesting. Now is the time for the President to strike while the iron is hot as they say. A two-pronged strategy to set the Justice Department on the perpetrators of the Russia hoax and at the same time advancing his immigration policy would be the best idea from my point of view. The important thing is to be seen to make progress. That rallies the troops and frightens the bad guys.
With respect to reviews, I’ve enjoyed the Twilight Zone project and have decided that after it’s done, I’m going to embark on a review of the original Star Trek series. Mocking Bill Shatner will be a labor of love for me and certain to raise the spirits of all readers. I’ve got a review of the movie, “The Natural,” coming up tomorrow morning and I’d like to pick out some other older films to highlight that people still have a choice of watching something entertaining even while Hollywood is still dominated by the insane death cult ensconced there.
To all Christians out there Happy Easter. To all Jewish readers have a Happy Passover. To everyone else, enjoy the chocolate eggs.
Guest Contributor – War Pig – No Good Deed Ever Goes Unpunished!
This is what I posted over on the Washington Post. They had an article about the French billionaires pledging enough money to repair Notre Dame without touching a cent of public money, and how the advocates of the poor are now chastising them for their generosity.
“No good deed goes unpunished. If the wealthy had not assisted, they would be demonized. Now they have pledged the money, thereby saving taxpayers the expense, they are demonized for not ignoring Notre Dame and instead giving the money to the poor in France. Now even Brazilians mock them, for funding Notre Dame’s restoration and ignoring Brazil’s burned museum. Are there no wealthy in Brazil that they have to complain about France’s wealthy?
The poor always want all of it. As the song said: “tax the rich, feed the poor, until there are no, rich no more”. The grasshoppers are always after the ants to give more and more to the lazy, crazy and incompetent. Charity is one thing, subsidizing and perpetuating misery is another.
San Francisco is generous with the poor. Their reward? The poor rush in, in great numbers, for the generosity and crap on the sidewalks at such a rate that they must have a web app to report feces for cleanup and for others to avoid. Public parks in San Francisco, once places for children and families and now taken over by the wretched, are filled with feces, garbage, the homeless and used needles. The homeless harass and threaten and attack people and you dare not allow children near the parks without an armed escort lest they be assaulted, raped and killed.
So I suppose we should allow all monuments and other great works to fall into disrepair and disappear. Instead we should give those resources to the poor to breed more and more poor until they consume it all.
Then what? Extinction?”
A Reading for Holy Saturday
An extra Quote of the Day for the Faithful Few.
The Holy Bible King James Version
The Gospel According to Saint Matthew
Matthew 27
27:1 When the morning was come, all the chief priests and
elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death:
27:2 And when they had bound him, they led him away,
and delivered him to Pontius Pilate the governor.
27:3 Then Judas, which had betrayed him, when he saw that he was condemned,
repented himself, and brought again the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders,
27:4 Saying, I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood.
And they said, What is that to us? see thou to that.
27:5 And he cast down the pieces of silver in the temple,
and departed, and went and hanged himself.
27:6 And the chief priests took the silver pieces, and said,
It is not lawful for to put them into the treasury, because it is the price of blood.
27:7 And they took counsel, and bought with them the potter’s field, to bury strangers in.
27:8 Wherefore that field was called, The field of blood, unto this day.
27:9 Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremy the prophet,
saying, And they took the thirty pieces of silver, the price of him
that was valued, whom they of the children of Israel did value;
27:10 And gave them for the potter’s field, as the Lord appointed me.
27:11 And Jesus stood before the governor:
and the governor asked him, saying, Art thou the King of the Jews?
And Jesus said unto him, Thou sayest.
27:12 And when he was accused of the chief priests and elders, he answered nothing.
27:13 Then said Pilate unto him,
Hearest thou not how many things they witness against thee?
27:14 And he answered him to never a word;
insomuch that the governor marvelled greatly.
27:15 Now at that feast the governor was wont to release unto the people a prisoner, whom they would.
27:16 And they had then a notable prisoner, called Barabbas.
27:17 Therefore when they were gathered together, Pilate said unto them,
Whom will ye that I release unto you? Barabbas, or Jesus which is called Christ?
27:18 For he knew that for envy they had delivered him.
27:19 When he was set down on the judgment seat, his wife sent unto him, saying,
Have thou nothing to do with that just man: for I have
suffered many things this day in a dream because of him.
27:20 But the chief priests and elders persuaded the multitude
that they should ask Barabbas, and destroy Jesus.
27:21 The governor answered and said unto them,
Whether of the twain will ye that I release unto you?
They said, Barabbas.
27:22 Pilate saith unto them,
What shall I do then with Jesus which is called Christ?
They all say unto him, Let him be crucified.
27:23 And the governor said, Why, what evil hath he done?
But they cried out the more, saying, Let him be crucified.
27:24 When Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing, but that rather a tumult was made,
he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying,
I am innocent of the blood of this just person: see ye to it.
27:25 Then answered all the people, and said,
His blood be on us, and on our children.
27:26 Then released he Barabbas unto them:
and when he had scourged Jesus, he delivered him to be crucified.
27:27 Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the common hall,
and gathered unto him the whole band of soldiers.
27:28 And they stripped him, and put on him a scarlet robe.
27:29 And when they had platted a crown of thorns, they put it upon his head,
and a reed in his right hand: and they bowed the knee before him, and mocked him,
saying, Hail, King of the Jews!
27:30 And they spit upon him, and took the reed, and smote him on the head.
27:31 And after that they had mocked him, they took the robe off from him,
and put his own raiment on him, and led him away to crucify him.
27:32 And as they came out, they found a man of Cyrene,
Simon by name: him they compelled to bear his cross.
27:33 And when they were come unto a place called Golgotha, that is to say, a place of a skull,
27:34 They gave him vinegar to drink mingled with gall:
and when he had tasted thereof, he would not drink.
27:35 And they crucified him, and parted his garments, casting lots:
that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet,
They parted my garments among them, and upon my vesture did they cast lots.
27:36 And sitting down they watched him there;
27:37 And set up over his head his accusation written,
THIS IS JESUS THE KING OF THE JEWS.
27:38 Then were there two thieves crucified with him,
one on the right hand, and another on the left.
27:39 And they that passed by reviled him, wagging their heads,
27:40 And saying,
Thou that destroyest the temple, and buildest it in three days,
save thyself. If thou be the Son of God, come down from the cross.
27:41 Likewise also the chief priests mocking him, with the scribes and elders, said,
27:42 He saved others; himself he cannot save.
If he be the King of Israel, let him now come down from the cross, and we will believe him.
27:43 He trusted in God; let him deliver him now, if he will have him:
for he said, I am the Son of God.
27:44 The thieves also, which were crucified with him, cast the same in his teeth.
27:45 Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour.
27:46 And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying,
Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
27:47 Some of them that stood there,
when they heard that, said, This man calleth for Elias.
27:48 And straightway one of them ran, and took a spunge,
and filled it with vinegar, and put it on a reed, and gave him to drink.
27:49 The rest said,
Let be, let us see whether Elias will come to save him.
27:50 Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost.
27:51 And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom;
and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent;
27:52 And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose,
27:53 And came out of the graves after his resurrection,
and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.
27:54 Now when the centurion, and they that were with him,
watching Jesus, saw the earthquake, and those things that were done,
they feared greatly, saying, Truly this was the Son of God.
27:55 And many women were there beholding afar off,
which followed Jesus from Galilee, ministering unto him:
27:56 Among which was Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James and Joses,
and the mother of Zebedees children.
27:57 When the even was come, there came a rich man of Arimathaea, named Joseph,
who also himself was Jesus’ disciple:
27:58 He went to Pilate, and begged the body of Jesus.
Then Pilate commanded the body to be delivered.
27:59 And when Joseph had taken the body, he wrapped it in a clean linen cloth,
27:60 And laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out in the rock:
and he rolled a great stone to the door of the sepulchre, and departed.
27:61 And there was Mary Magdalene, and the other Mary, sitting over against the sepulchre.
27:62 Now the next day, that followed the day of the preparation,
the chief priests and Pharisees came together unto Pilate,
27:63 Saying,
Sir, we remember that that deceiver said, while he was yet alive, After three days I will rise again.
27:64 Command therefore that the sepulchre be made sure until the third day,
lest his disciples come by night, and steal him away, and say unto the people,
He is risen from the dead: so the last error shall be worse than the first.
27:65 Pilate said unto them, Ye have a watch: go your way, make it as sure as ye can.
27:66 So they went, and made the sepulchre sure, sealing the stone, and setting a watch.
Guest Contributor – War Pig – Discussion on Death and Dying
Now scientists say you do know when you have died and your brain works for a short time after your heart stops beating. Most who have survived a death experience say they were not at all afraid. Perhaps this is a mercy given to us to ease the transition. That’s why I believe in hospice and palliative care. Humans don’t always die peacefully so I’m all for them dying on their own terms when they can.
My good friend’s brother had brain cancer. Very painful. But just before he died he entered a state of grace where the pain was gone and he could thank his sister for taking care of him in his final weeks at home instead of dying alone in a hospital bed.
My dear wife’s mother said the day that she died that her husband of many years was at the foot of the bed, beckoning her to go with him. He had been dead for four years by then.
My own mother said my father, who had been gone for 16 years, appeared before her in her room at the nursing home a week before she died. She said he was dressed in the clothes he wore as a plant supervisor at Rocketdyne during the moonshot program. That was when he was happiest. He had important work and he was in charge. She was also seeing cars from the 50s and 60s driving through her room that week before she passed. She wasn’t at all afraid. When she passed on, she was in a hospital room but in my daughter’s hospital with me, my brother, his family, my daughters and my grandson with her. She finally told the nurses to remove the PAP breathing machine. They told her if they did, she would die. She said that was already decided and it the mask was uncomfortable. So she passed on her own terms.
My wife passed when she took a nap with a headache. Died peacefully from an undiagnosed aneurysm.
I hope I am given the grace to go so peacefully as they.
What’s Right
(My Understanding of the Current Composition of Non-Leftist America)
This is an update to my earlier column back in November 2017 “Defining the Space Between NeverTrump and the Alt-Right,” that appeared on the American Greatness website. At the time I declared that I was a red-pilled normie. Of course, I was quickly corrected by someone surely far to my right with the news that there are many red pills and I had a ways to go.
Here we are another eighteen months later (more or less) and my learning curve has flattened out a little and I have a better understanding of the nuances and distinctions on the non-left half of the socio-political spectrum. And the world has changed a great deal too.
Back in 2017 the NeverTrumpers were still in the ascendancy in Washington. Paul Ryan was still the Speaker of the House and the National Review and the Weekly Standard were still considered conservative magazines by some Republicans. Mitch McConnell and Lindsay Graham were still more likely to side with Chuck Schumer than President Trump on any particular issue of the day. And every fresh rumor from the leakers on the Mueller investigation was trumpeted on the front page of the Times and Post as if impeachment and conviction were only hours away. How the mighty have fallen.
The point to all this is that the categories of the Non-Left have not changed much over time but the sizes of these constituencies have shifted radically. Let’s start with the left most extreme edge of the Non-Left. Here are the liberal civic nationalists or “Centrists.” These are the swing voters that can vote Democrat or Republican depending on circumstances and really don’t have much claim to be grouped with conservatives. They are socially liberal and fiscally pretty liberal too. But to the extent that they can vote Republican they are Non-Left. This is a fairly large group of people in the Mid-West and probably a large number of them would be capable of voting for Joe Biden or President Trump in 2020 depending on circumstances. But considering the changes in the economy and the news (like the conclusion to the Mueller investigation) it seems likely that President Trump’s rising popularity probably stems from the changes in opinion of this group. So, to the extent that they are shifting rightwards let’s say that this constituency is growing.
Next to the Centrists moving rightwards are the so-called “Establishment Republicans.” Here are the business people who expect the Republican party to stand for capitalism, low taxes and fiscal restraint. This is the JEB! crowd. They trooped over to the NeverTrump movement en masse as soon as they found out that Trump didn’t think globalization was the greatest thing since sliced bread. This group doesn’t shrink or grow. It’s a population that inhabits the same stratum with the elite Left. In fact, they’re the same people. They’re just a little less strident in their social opinions. But they have moved away from their virulent anti-Trump positions as of late and at this point, they’re more neutral in their attitudes about the President. Personally, they still despise him but on a practical basis they concede that they may have to deal with him for another term and they are trying to figure out how best to take advantage of that. An exception to this trend is the Neo-Cons. These War-Hawks are now synonymous with the NeverTrumpers. Bill Kristol and Max Boot are the most virulent of the bunch but as a group they have drifted so far from even the remaining Establishment Republicans that they are now essentially Leftists.
The next big class of people are the Conservative Civic Nationalists. This is the bulk of the Non-Left. These are the normal people who have always believed in God and Country and that America was the land of freedom, opportunity and fairness. They believed that all Americans were lucky to be living in the greatest country on God’s green earth. They believed that the rule of law under the Constitution and especially the Bill of Rights is what made this the closest thing to heaven on earth and anyone living here should be supremely grateful to the Founding Fathers for inventing it and his own ancestors for coming here. This is the group that has had the biggest change occur in the last couple of years. But to define the change let’s break this group into two sub-divisions. Let’s call them Sleepwalkers and the Red-Pilled. Back in the early 2000s all the Civic Nationalists (including myself) were Sleepwalkers. We believed that the Bush family was conservative. W told us he was a religious conservative. We thought he meant that he believed in the social conservative beliefs. We thought he would defend and protect the traditional values that formed the basis of the support that allowed him to send millions of young men half way around the world to primitive lands where they would put their bodies in harms way to fight his wars.
But the more we defended W, the more he embraced the programs and policies that exposed his constituency to impoverishment through globalist financial policies and replacement by illegal migration. By the time the Bushes had come to publicly embrace the Clintons and the Obamas it was becoming plain to a small part of the Civic Nationalists that we were being played. This group decamped and became the Dissident Right (some called themselves the Alt-Right). Others were just confused and demoralized that all the loyalty and sacrifice that went into the Afghan and Iraq Wars was completely lost on the Neo-Cons and the Republican Establishment. But during the run up to the 2016 election the information that the Dissident Right had decoded started becoming disseminated and a small group of the Civic Nationalists became “red-pilled.” They realized that if Jeb Bush was the Republican candidate there was no hope of turning around the Anti-American program that Obama had started. In fact, none of the candidates, even ones who believed in the conservative agenda could stand up to the combination of Left-Wing journalism and their own fears of being called racists if they dared campaign against globalism and replacement migration. No one except Trump. And as these red-pilled normies saw the lengths to which the Establishment Republicans and the Left would go in order to defeat Trump they became convinced that the only way to save the country was to destroy the old order. Business as usual would mean the end of our republic as we knew it.
And here is the other big change that has been happening for the last year and a half. The ratio of the Red-Pilled to the Sleepwalkers has been growing. My information is based on the acquaintances I have who have shifted over that time. It is a steady trend and it only goes in one direction. This shift isn’t too important short term because even the Sleepwalkers have accepted Trump and will support him in 2020 but the importance of the Red-Pilled contingent lies in the post-Trump era. The Red-Pilled are far less likely than their Sleepwalking brethren of being fooled again, no more Bushes for them.
To the right of the Red-Pilled Normies lies the Dissident Right. These are the people that are so disillusioned with America that they feel that the only way for them to live free is for the United States to be divided between the Left and the Right. To a large extent these folks feel that racial differences and resentment will prevent the various ethnic populations from living in harmony. They believe that the Left’s use of identity politics will spread to the white population and will splinter the unity of the American nation into racial components that will want to separate to provide each group freedom from oppression by the other groups.
The Dissident Right is a disturbing group to follow. Their theory paints a bleak picture of human nature and the future they predict doesn’t hold much hope for a happy place where America is now. But one thing that cannot be denied is that they understand the Left and how it has been dominating the world for about a century. They understand the psychological and sociological tactics and strategies that the Left has been successfully using to destroy almost every facet of life that we held dear. They’ve destroyed the laws, education, corporations, social institutions, churches, the family, sex roles and now they are even redefining what it means biologically to be a man or a woman. They can predict what the Left will say and do and they can define tactics that will work against these people. That’s pretty hard to argue with.
For myself, I tend to agree with what they say is wrong with our society. But I presume that if the practices are changed then the result will change too. For instance, I think that the anti-male, anti-normal and anti-white rhetoric and governmental policies that the Left has enshrined and which breed animosity between people can be eliminated. Once these things are removed the reasons for resentments will be eliminated too. But I also will admit that I can’t be 100% sure that they are wrong. After all they have seen things when others didn’t. For me the jury is out on their predictions. But I hold onto my civic nationalist beliefs.
So that’s what I see to the right of the Left. The biggest chunk is still the Civic Nationalists and, in that chunk, the Red-Pilled Normies are growing and the Sleepwalkers are slowly waking up. The Centrist are on our side at the moment but as always, they blow with the wind. The Establishment Republicans are useless and in it for themselves but they’ll go along if a strong man drags them by their purse strings. The Neo-cons have returned to the Left where they belonged. And finally, the Dissident Right is the Angry Cynic who sees the Con-Man on the Left shaking down the Idealists and warns the rest of us to prepare for a fight.
CBS Advocates for Political Violence
Several sites have picked up on a trailer that CBS put out for their show, “The Good Fight.”
The plot of the episode is Democrat and Republican poll watchers confront “neo-nazis” at an election site and a riot ensues. In the video clip above, one of the actors in the show says that seeing white nationalist Richard Spencer getting sucker punched convinced him that the correct response to political speech that offends him is physical assault.
This is an interesting decision by CBS. They have now openly advocated for political violence where free speech laws prevent any restraint against statements that they disapprove. This might be a legally dangerous stance to take by a company that requires a government license to exist on the broadcast systems.
I could imagine a complaint being lodged by someone to the FCC bringing into question their fitness as broadcasters. Granted the show in question is not on the broadcast channel. It is some kind of streaming option called CBS All Access but that is probably not a barrier against the general public complaining about a CBS property that steps beyond the bounds of responsible political opinion into the realm of political violence against Americans.
I guess it remains to be seen if this escalation is part of any larger pattern where the radical left begins using violence as their main enforcement tool against their enemies. After all, it’s one thing for TV actors to go on a nazi-bashing spree on the small screen. It’s a little more tricky for Antifa to get away with it anywhere except the confines of the blue state confederation. And how many actual nazis are there in LA, NYC and D.C.? It’s got to be a pretty limited population in those locales.
The folks on the dissident right see this as confirmation that the future will be an increasingly polarized country that eventually will divide into two or more components. Well, I’ll say it does show that the Left isn’t afraid to legitimize violence against those it sees as its enemies. Whether that equates into a civil war is a slightly different question.
But apocalyptic conclusions aside, it is clear that CBS would like to be able to paint the people they don’t like as neo-nazis. So if you wear a MAGA hat you’re a racist and don’t deserve First Amendment protection or even protection from assault in public. This way of looking at things doesn’t seem to be the way these things are actually happening in the real world, even in the blue state version of the real world. Recently a man in Massachusetts was accosted by (of all things) an illegal alien who objected to his MAGA hat. Interestingly, even in that deep blue state, she was arrested and in fact deported. That’s not to say that there won’t be abuses in blue states and even excursions of leftist violence elsewhere. But it’s just not something that seems inevitable. From my point of view what’s at the heart of this is worry on the Left that President Trump and his policies are becoming increasingly popular and his re-election is becoming increasingly real in their minds. They want to have something to blame him for and manufacturing violence seems like a good thing to start with. That would explain the Jussie Smollett hoax and some of the other incidences. They really need nazis and will do whatever it takes to manufacture them.
Anyway, it probably wouldn’t hurt to complain to the FCC about CBS and see if we can’t cause them some trouble. It seems well deserved and doesn’t take much effort.