{"id":1616,"date":"2017-02-15T14:20:55","date_gmt":"2017-02-15T19:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/attheintersectionoffaithandculture\/?p=1616"},"modified":"2017-02-15T14:20:55","modified_gmt":"2017-02-15T19:20:55","slug":"fighting-back-left","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/attheintersectionoffaithandculture\/2017\/02\/fighting-back-left.html","title":{"rendered":"Fighting Back Against the Left"},"content":{"rendered":"

Not long ago, a conversation transpired on a nationally syndicated radio program between the host and a writer for The New York Post<\/em>.\u00a0 Both are supporters of Donald J. Trump. Referring to the relentlessness and intensity of the opposition to the President on the part of the left, the host asked his guest whether the latter believed that the madness will soon have to come to a head. The Post<\/em> writer replied that, in time, when the country improves materially, Trump will get the credit that he deserves and calm will set in over the land.<\/p>\n

I wish that I could believe that this is so.<\/p>\n

Even if they are certain that he is entitled to it, leftist will never <\/em>give the President his due. And for as long as Trump is in office, and probably even long afterwards, leftists will spare no occasion to manipulate other Americans into seeing things their way.<\/p>\n

From Democrats in Washington D.C. to those of their ideological ilk in the media, academia, Hollywood, and the streets, the left has been traumatized by Trump\u2019s upset victory.\u00a0 For that matter, it isn\u2019t just the American left that remains shocked to its core, but leftists around the world<\/a>.\u00a0 It is telling that in spite of Trump\u2019s massive rallies and the personal connection that he established with his supporters, leftists apparently could not so much as conceive of the possibility that Hillary Clinton could lose to the Republican nominee.<\/p>\n

Although fake news outlets and their phony polls consistently showed Trump losing in a landslide to Clinton, the President won 2623 American counties<\/a> compared to Clinton\u2019s 489. If we subtract that bluest of blue states, California, Trump would have won the popular vote by over a million votes (and this is assuming, counterfactually, that there was no voter fraud).\u00a0 If you subtract New York also, he would\u2019ve won by 3 million votes over 48 states.<\/p>\n

Trump swept most of the country, making it painfully obvious to Democrats that their party is now largely a coastal party.\u00a0 As far as the Electoral College goes\u2014and this, let us not forget, is how presidential elections are supposed to be decided in the United States\u2014Trump crushed his opponent with 306 votes to Clinton\u2019s 232.<\/p>\n

The left\u2019s collective head exploded.\u00a0 After a month or so of waxing outrage over Trump\u2019s refusal to say in advance of the election whether he would automatically accept the outcome if<\/em> Clinton won, leftists still<\/em> refuse to accept the outcome after<\/em> Trump actually <\/em>won.\u00a0 First they demanded phony recounts.\u00a0 Then they tried to coerce the electors of the Electoral College to deny Trump the votes that he earned.\u00a0 When this dirty tactic failed, leftists contrived a conspiracy theory of epic proportions: Trump, they tried to convince the country, had won in an immense landslide because Vladimir Putin wanted for him to win<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Now, as leftist millionaires and billionaires (like the evil George Soros) finance massive anti-Trump protests and violent left-wing, neo-communist and anti-American terrorists wreak havoc in the name of \u201cdemonstrating\u201d against Trump and \u201cfascists,\u201d Democrats in Congress are on a quest to create any opportunity that they can to impeach the President and bring about his downfall.<\/p>\n

Trump and his army of some 63 million or so \u201cDeplorables,\u201d against overwhelming odds, defeated the elitists of both parties and the Regime that they constitute along with the media, academia, and Hollywood.\u00a0 Hard leftist and alt-leftist (neoconservative) Regimists threw every weapon in their arsenal against the Donald\u2014all to no avail.<\/p>\n

The Regime didn\u2019t just go down to defeat.\u00a0 It suffered a humiliating<\/em> defeat.<\/p>\n

Democrats have lost over 1200 seats at the national and state levels since Obama has been elected (yes, he\u2019s not only been terrible for the country, he\u2019s been terrible for his party).\u00a0 Republicans control the legislatures in some 32 states and the governorships in about two-thirds of the states.<\/p>\n

And then along came Trump.<\/p>\n

Leftists\u2019 whole world is crashing in around them.\u00a0 They will never accept their losses\u2014even if that means dispatching thugs to terrorize innocents, destroy property, attack police, set fires, issue calls for \u201cpunching\u201d their opponents \u201cin the face<\/a>,\u201d organize demonstrations, and lie through their teeth to delegitimize and\/or impeach President Trump.<\/p>\n

But here\u2019s the question that, to my knowledge, no prominent Trump-supporter in national media has yet to ask:<\/p>\n

What are the rest of us <\/em>going to do about all of this?<\/p>\n

It\u2019s true that in writing, talking, and, thus, exposing the hysteria, deception, and violence, commentators go some distance toward combatting leftist rage. Yet given the fever-pitch of the times, this has begun to feel inadequate. More needs to be done.<\/p>\n

First, conservatives and others who are appalled by the hostility of the left should organize boycotts of every commodity produced by those who regard them as, well, deplorable. The left doesn\u2019t hesitate to engage in boycotts. Neither should we. Those who repudiate our values must be made to pay a steep price for their actions.<\/p>\n

Second, while \u201cconservative\u201d talk radio hosts like Rush Limbaugh and some others deserve credit for affecting what changes in the media landscape that they undoubtedly achieved over the decades, they especially could do more than they currently are doing.\u00a0 These top-tier hosts have abundant resources at their disposal. It\u2019s hard to imagine that it would cost them very much at all to organize some pro-American, anti-left demonstrations.<\/p>\n

They could help bus in hundreds of thousands (and maybe more) exacerbated, yet proud, Second Amendment-availing patriots to Washington D.C.\u00a0 Perhaps Bikers for Trump and Truckers for Trump could join them, bringing the city to a standstill.\u00a0 Uniformly dressed in, say, red\u2014the color for courage\u2014or maybe dark blue\u2014the color for justice\u2014the sea of pro-American demonstrators, hoisting their American flag poles high, could put the leftist thugs, terrorists, and bullies on notice that a new day has indeed dawned and they are no longer going to tolerate being pushed around<\/p>\n

Shows of force are necessary.<\/p>\n

Any violent-prone, \u201cantifa\u201d terrorists would enter these zones at their own peril.<\/p>\n

Since the left will never stop fighting, the right must start fighting with the same tenacity.<\/p>\n

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