Posted on 08/06/2019 10:23:45 AM PDT by Jack Black
The anti-Trump forces, now stripped of their Russian collusion ammunition, have invented another imaginary threat they hope to weaponize against the president: The public menace posed by “white supremacist” terrorism.
Much like the collusion conspiracy theory—which relied on random incidents, fictional villains, unconvincing evidence, and the Bad Orange Man in the White House—there is little substance to this purported danger.
Unironically, the whole ruse is being pushed by the same people who foisted the Russian collusion hoax on the American people for three years in the hopes of prompting President Trump’s impeachment and removal. The political agenda behind this manufactured white supremacy crisis is equally sinister because its specific purpose is to influence and undermine the 2020 elections.
The “white supremacy” canard is intended to further demonize Trump; falsely defame his supporters as white supremacists; and pressure nervous voters into defeating Trump and Republican candidates next year. The strategy is as cynical as it is pernicious.
Let’s clear one thing up before I get into the details: There is no systemic threat posed by white supremacy. Domestic white terrorists are not the same as, let alone worse than ISIS Jihadis. There has been no massive “surge” in white supremacy activity, as I wrote in November. These groups remain fringe, disorganized, and unrespected.
In his Senate testimony last month, FBI Director Christopher Wray was intentionally vague when questioned by Senator Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) about the supposed rise of white supremacy.
“In terms of number of arrests, we have, through the third quarter of this fiscal year, had about, give or take, a hundred arrests in the international terrorism side, which includes the homegrown violent extremists,” Wray explained. “But we’ve also had about the same number, again, don’t quote me to the exact digit, on the domestic terrorism side. And I will say that a majority of the domestic terrorism cases that we’ve investigated are motivated by some version of what you might call white supremacist violence but it includes other things as well.”
Some version of what you might call white supremacist violence? Even giving Wray the benefit of the doubt, that means the FBI investigated roughly 50 or so cases of some version of white supremacy. Not exactly solid evidence to justify a law enforcement, political and media war against white supremacy.
But that is precisely what the Left and the NeverTrump Right now are demanding after the horrific mass shooting in El Paso, Texas over the weekend, when an alleged white supremacist murdered at least 22 people at a shopping center; most of the victims are presumed to be Hispanic and law enforcement officials are investigating whether a manifesto posted online was authored by the shooter.
The editors and writers of National Review are comparing the threat of domestic white terrorism with the threat of international Islamic terrorism while blaming Trump for it all. “It’s time to declare war on white-nationalist terrorism,” wrote David French, a NeverTrump promoter of the white supremacy fallacy. “It’s time to be as wide awake about the dangers of online racist radicalization as we are about online jihadist inspiration. And it’s time to reject the public language and rhetoric that excites and inspires racist radicals.”
This, according to French, would include comments made by the president related to immigration policy or criticism of Central American migrants breaking U.S. law to enter the country illegally. In his call for war and his argument that Trump has been breeding white terrorists, French posted this tweet by Trump in support of his claim: “Many Gang Members and some very bad people are mixed into the Caravan heading to our Southern Border. Please go back, you will not be admitted into the United States unless you go through the legal process. This is an invasion of our Country and our Military is waiting for you!”
His editors evidently agree with French’s hysteria, insisting that the country should “crush” the evil of white supremacy; Rich Lowry suggests that the FBI should go after white supremacists just like it went after the Ku Klux Klan in the 1960s.
What could possibly go wrong with a plan to ramp up an agency populated by partisan holdovers from the Robert Mueller-James Comey era? In fact, in a rambling op-ed in the New York Times the morning after the massacre, Comey warned the president, “because of what you have done, you owe us more than condolences sent via Twitter. You must stop trying to unleash and exploit the radioactive energy of racism.”
Democratic presidential candidates quickly exploited the El Paso atrocity and lined up to condemn Trump.
“Donald Trump is responsible for this,” blasted Senator Cory Booker (D-N.J.). Democratic activists compared the shooter to Fox News’ host Tucker Carlson. “If you work for Fox News, advertise on Fox News, or support Fox News in any way, you are enabling the spread of White Nationalism in America and probably making a pretty penny doing so,” tweeted former Obama advisor Dan Pfeiffer on Monday morning.
The former president chimed in late Monday afternoon: “We should soundly reject language coming out of the mouths of any of our leaders that feeds a climate of fear and hatred or normalizes racists sentiments; leaders who demonize those who don’t look like us,” warned Obama in a lengthy screed posted on Twitter. Trump’s predecessor then compared Trump’s language to previous political leaders responsible for the Holocaust, Rwandan genocide and Balkan ethnic cleansing.
What should frighten every American is that the emerging proposals to mitigate “white supremacy” include a jaw-dropping array of strong-arm tactics that will, in short order, violate the free speech rights of millions of Americans as the government and news media malign anyone they identify as sympathizing with “white supremacy.”
If these measures are enacted, they will give legal and political cover to social media platforms to ban Trump officials, his supporters and perhaps even the president himself—they may extend to anyone in the Republican Party. Guns will be confiscated, careers ruined, and reputations irreparably destroyed. It will be the Kavanaugh hearing and show trials on steroids.
Conservative news and opinion outlets such as this one could be placed on some kind of watch list, or worse, shuttered altogether simply for challenging immigration policy or defending the president. Private companies and financial institutions could be warned against doing business with the Trump campaign or Republican candidates and lawmakers. Donors could be censured under the guise of aiding and abetting a domestic enemy.
MSNBC already is advocating on behalf of taking that path: “Because you keep writing checks to this president, it’s on you . . . because you are funding this white supremacist campaign . . . It is your money that is funding this white supremacy,” claimed Joe Scarborough on Monday’s show.
Pending approval of a catalog of harsh policy prescriptions, the Democrats, the news media and NeverTrump Right will continue openly to brand any voter planning to reelect Donald Trump as a white supremacist. The social shame will be as destructive as any measures that could be taken by any law enforcement agency.
And while the Trump haters scream at shadows and unleash the dogs of war, the real danger—how we address the mental, emotional and social defects in a generation of isolated young men—will be ignored just so #TheResistance can move poll numbers before November 2020.
Our inner cities will continue to burn as urban violence destroys families and neighborhoods. The opioid epidemic, a true systemic threat to domestic tranquility, will rage throughout blighted communities unabated. Just like Russian collusion, our ruling class will busy themselves chasing apocryphal demons while America’s legitimate problems go unresolved.
Who, exactly, are the real political terrorists in this scenario?
Lies. Fear mongering radical left wing extremists looking to wedge the divide in the country even wider?
It’s the Russians, It’s the Russians....
all unfounded crap, however when you control the medias it is significant noise that some stupid people will buy.
They bleat white supreamacy because we stopped listening to the endless cries of racism where it doesn’t exist. This is the reason “The Russians” are constantly demonized: they are white! To the left, it would be “racist” to demonize the Chicoms, who are way more of a threat, BTW.
Even Ivanka uttered the phrase ...
Ivanka has a beautiful face and an empty head.
What else do they have?
The Left always runs against something, never “for”. Always fear of what “they” will do if you don’t elect Democrats (wreck the environment, make poor ppl starve, start wars, etc).
All those sneaky Russians turned into Klansman??!!
Basically anyone who is not a Marxist and who supports the Constitution and the Bill of Rights is a “white supremacist terrorist.”
I am respectfully requesting that American Greatness be removed from the “may only be posted in the bloggers forum” list and put into the general website category so it can be posted in the News forum.
Full disclosure: I have no association with American Greatness other than being a satisfied reader.
AG is not a blog at this point, perhaps it started off looking like one at the time your ban was put into place.
At this point it’s a full webzine, featuring all conservative and all Pro-Trump authors, including some of the best out there like Prof. Victor Davis Hanson.
I would compare it to National Review Online and American Thinker in terms of format. They are on-line zines that offer a multiple original articles every day from a stable of writers, and are running on custom professionally produced sites. (Not just a Wordpress of Blogger site.)
National Review Online, while living off their past and still claiming to speak for Conservatives, is of course, heavily anti Trump.
This article I’ve posted above is yet another tedious slander of Trump and Trump supporters by David French at the National Review.
It’s sad that the original anti-Trump National Review article can be posted on the main forum (as, for that matter can articles from HuffPost!), but this fantastic site and it’s very pro-Trump content is relegated to the (less read) ‘bloggers’ category here at Free Republic.
We need to expand access to strong pro-Trump voices like those at American Greatness, not limit them. That is my opinion, and why I am making my request.
Thanks in advance for your consideration of this request.
"This article I’ve posted above is a REBUTTAL OF yet another tedious slander of Trump and Trump supporters by David French at the National Review.
Demonrats want to disarm the populace in order to take away all our freedoms. Ultimately to march the Christians and Jews into the gas chambers.
Weirdest damned thing... I don’t recall seeing her name on the ballot in 2016 nor do I recall casting a vote for her.
Does anyone?
Exactly.
These morons are trying their best to implement the Holocaust v2.0.
Dems doing what dems do - taking every opportunity for political sniping, never actually addressing the underlying problem.
Even Ivanka uttered the phrase ...
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I’m mildly surprised that she wasn’t in the Russia, Russia, Russia chorus.
I think Ivanka’s got a funny looking face. I think Tiffany is extremely attractive.
Here’s the Formula: Hatred + Government + Disarmed Civilians = Genocide
What makes the argument so powerful? Two factors.
First, it makes common sense: unarmed defenseless people have no hope against armed
aggressors.
Second, it states the historical truth: evil governments did wipe out 170,000,000 innocent non-military lives in the 20th Century alone.
When the gun prohibitionists quote a statistic about how many people are killed by firearms misuse, the discussion sometimes bogs down into whose crime statistics to believe and how to count crimes vs. the defensive firearm uses.
In the 20th Century:
• Governments murdered four times as many civilians as were killed in all the international and domestic wars combined.
• Governments murdered millions more people than were killed by common criminals.
How could governments kill so many people? The governments had the power - and the people, the victims, were unable to resist. The victims were unarmed.
For the chilling reality after National Gun Control is enacted go to the link below:
http://jpfo.org/pdf02/genocide-chart.pdf
Thanks to SanchoP for finding and posting this ultimate argument against any national gun
control!
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