While violence has always had a home on the political left, and while the left in America has been engaging in violence from at least the time of the late 1960\u2019s, forces on the thuggish left became emboldened during Obama\u2019s tenure in the White House. Within the last year or so, they have become especially brash and merciless toward Trump supporters.<\/p>\n
This came to a head at Berkeley a few nights ago when \u201cprotesters\u201d prevented provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos from delivering a planned speech. Mobs of anti-Milo and anti-Trump demonstrators were on the scene.\u00a0 No small number were self-described \u201canti-fascists\u201d (or \u201cantifa\u201d) clad in black with masks concealing their faces.\u00a0 Things turned feral as fires were lit, Molotov cocktails were thrown, property was destroyed, officers were assaulted, and innocents were tear-gassed and beaten up with various weapons.<\/p>\n
And the police arrested\u2026no one.<\/p>\n
While it\u2019s true that most of those on the left do not physically engage in violence, for two reasons this is neither here nor there.<\/p>\n
First, it only took 19 terrorists on September 11, 2001 to murder nearly 3,000 innocent Americans while causing pain and suffering to many more. Within an hour or so, fewer than two dozen immigrants brought the country to a standstill and irrevocably altered its history.\u00a0 A minority of rotten apples, however small it may be, can ruin the bunch.<\/p>\n
Second, those leftist Democrats in political office, the media, academia, and Hollywood, those who aren\u2019t literally initiating violence against innocents, are hardly off the hook. The rabble in the streets functions as their strong-arm wing, the Democrats\u2019 foot soldiers. Those Democrats who object to this characterization of their relationship to the thugs, who explicitly disavow violence while qualifying their denunciations with the very same anti-Trump vitriol that gave rise to the violence, want to have it both ways.<\/p>\n
The Democratic left\u2019s demonization of President Trump and his supporters\u2014<\/em>after all, it was the Democratic presidential nominee, Hillary Clinton, who described \u201chalf\u201d of those backing Trump (over 30 million Americans) as \u201cdeplorable\u201d\u2014created the climate of hatred, irrationality, and thuggery that is now consuming cities and college campuses around the country.<\/p>\n (Can there really be any doubt about this?\u00a0 When four black Chicagoans videoed themselves pummeling, torturing, and taunting their white cognitively challenged victim while shouting \u201cF**k Donald Trump!\u201d, a leftist colleague of mine was quick to remark that it is highly unlikely that the guilty parties were really <\/em>upset by Trump\u2019s election.\u00a0 I suspect that he was probably correct.\u00a0 Yet as I was equally quick to respond, if our suspicions were correct, this would show only just how powerful the Democrats\u2019 anti-Trump rhetoric has been, for even those, like the scum in Chicago, who aren\u2019t politically engaged can\u2019t avoid being influenced by it.)<\/p>\n The Democrats who control the Government-Academic-Hollywood-Media Complex are like the proverbial person who runs into a crowded theater and screams \u201cFire!\u201d\u00a0 In demonizing the President and his tens of millions of supporters as \u201cracist,\u201d \u201csexist,\u201d \u201cIslamophobic,\u201d \u201chomophobic,\u201d\u00a0 \u201cxenophobic\u201d and the like, the non-violent Democratic left aid and abet their more overtly thuggish counterparts on the streets.<\/p>\n It\u2019s one thing for them to disagree with President Trump. It\u2019s another thing entirely for them to, in effect, incite mobs to hurt innocents.\u00a0 It\u2019s also inexcusable for them to do anything other than unequivocally, routinely, condemn this mob action.<\/p>\n This, they have not done. When Democrats renounce the violence of street punks while either refusing to acknowledge the role that their language played in enflaming it or rationalizing, if not overtly justifying, it by blaming the victim, they convict themselves.<\/p>\n To be clear, the Democratic Party and its apologists aren\u2019t really that <\/em>bothered by the fact that riots are being executed\u2014as long as they are done for the sake of \u201cprotesting\u201d Trump and it is those to their right that are being harmed.\u00a0 This is the message that anyone who is listening must receive.\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n So, perhaps I\u2019m overreacting, but it seems to me that this is not <\/em>politics as usual. The current situation feels more like a civil war that is beginning to heat up than anything else. The only problem is that while the Deplorables\u2014those who are not attacking innocents, police, private property\u2014just won a major victory in defying, well, everyone<\/em> and electing Donald Trump, it is their side only that is all too often getting\u00a0 physically hurt.<\/p>\n In a future essay, I will propose ways for law-abiding patriotic Americans to deal with those who would harm them.\u00a0 For now, however, we\u2019d be well served to call to mind Confucius, whose doctrine of \u201cthe Rectification of Names\u201d underscores the importance of calling things for what they are.<\/p>\n \u201cProtesters\u201d or \u201cdemonstrators\u201d do not act violently.\u00a0 Those who act violently for any reason other than self-defense <\/em>are thugs, criminals, felons.\u00a0 Those who act violently in mob are rioters.<\/p>\n And those who act violently toward innocents for the sake of altering the direction of government or government policy are terrorists.\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n To reiterate, those leftists who have been wreaking havoc, those who the left media call \u201cprotesters\u201d and who the right continually characterizes as \u201csnowflakes\u201d and \u201ccrybabies\u201d are indeed domestic terrorists. <\/em><\/p>\n Were those who besieged the American embassy in Benghazi in 2012, murdering four Americans\u2014were they \u201cprotesters\u201d or \u201csnowflakes?\u201d\u00a0 So far, anti-Trump terrorists haven\u2019t murdered anyone. This, however, doesn\u2019t mean that their actions couldn\u2019t have easily resulted in the deaths of innocents. Nor does it make their actions any less terroristic.<\/p>\n Second, the terrorists are not \u201canti-fascist.\u201d\u00a0 They are anti-American neo-communists, or neo-coms, militant leftists who want nothing less than the fundamental transformation of the United States from what it has always been into something more on the order of the utopian totalitarian order of their fevered imaginings.<\/p>\n Importantly, these anti-American neo-com terrorists are also Democrats, if not formally or officially, then in spirit, for their ideas are essentially one and the same as those that have been greasing the wheels of Democrat politics for decades.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" While violence has always had a home on the political left, and while the left in America has been engaging in violence from at least the time of the late 1960\u2019s, forces on the thuggish left became emboldened during Obama\u2019s tenure in the White House. 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