Posted on 06/30/2019 8:11:33 PM PDT by Rummyfan
Byron York takes a dispassionate look at today’s political/cultural landscape, which is beginning to resemble the one that preceded the Civil War:
The toxicity of the resistance to President Trump has risen in recent days, with the nation’s most respected newspapers publishing rationalizations for denying Trump supporters public accommodation and for doxxing career federal employees, while a journalist found himself under physical attack from the so-called anti-fascist group Antifa, which has stepped up its violent activities since Trump’s election.
Advocacy of incivility and violence isn’t coming only from the zany far left. It finds a home in formerly respectable news outlets, like the Washington Post and the New York Times, as well as among Democratic Party office-holders.
The justification for denying public accommodation came from the Washington Post in an op-ed by Stephanie Wilkinson, the owner of a farm-to-table restaurant in Lexington, Virginia. Wilkinson became famous in June of last year, when she refused to serve White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders and and told Sanders and her family to leave the restaurant. Wilkinson’s staff then followed the Sanders group in protest as they tried to find another place to eat.
In her new article, Wilkinson discussed the case of The Aviary, a trendy bar in Chicago where a waitress recently spat on Eric Trump, the president’s son. Wilkinson wrote that the incident, along with her own decision to oust Sanders, shows that in the age of Trump “new rules apply” in public accommodations: Americans who work for the administration or support the president should stay away.
Democrats obviously think that the “new rules” will never apply to them. Why is that? Evidently, they believe–correctly–that we conservatives are better people than they are. But our patience is not infinite.
The apology for doxxing came from the New York Times in a piece by Kate Cronin-Furman, an assistant professor of human rights at University College London. The article focused on the treatment of illegal immigrant children in detention centers near the U.S.-Mexico border.
Which has actually improved somewhat since the Obama administration. And, in any event, if a Central American is concerned about how his children will be treated if he brings them along as he tries to cross our border illegally, he should consider not doing that.
Cronin-Furman discussed the detentions, as well as actions by employees of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, in terms of the Holocaust and genocides in Cambodia and Rwanda. Those are, of course, contexts which most Americans would likely dismiss as preposterous and offensive but which Cronin-Furman and the New York Times apparently take seriously.
These comparisons are so idiotic as not to require refutation. But the New York Times publishes them; not because they are remotely plausible, but because the Times doesn’t care. The Times exists solely to launch one hysterical attack after another against President Trump on behalf of the Democratic Party.
Then we have the case that I wrote about earlier today:
Finally, there was Antifa’s recent attack on Andy Ngo, a freelance journalist often associated with the pro-free thought cultural publication Quillette. At a demonstration in Portland, at which Trump was a focus of dispute, Antifa fighters beat up and milkshaked Ngo, apparently because he was there and he was not on their side.
The Democratic Party has abandoned all norms of civility and constitutional government. Somehow, though, liberals believe they are immune from having to live by their own “new rules.” They sow the wind, but think they never will reap the whirlwind. Why?
Liberals act as though they are spoiling for a civil war, or at least a slow-motion approximation thereof. Is that really what they want? Fighting in the streets? And, evidently, the restaurants? Do they have reason to think they would fare well if they actually got what they claim to want?
We conservatives are, of course, morally superior to leftists, and far more pacific, as they believe. But, as I said, our patience is not infinite. There are many places in America where, unlike Portland, fascists would meet with a strong reaction if they tried to beat up bystanders on the street, burn down buildings, and smash store windows. The New York Times, the Washington Post, and their Democratic Party seem entirely oblivious to this fact.
UPDATE: Commenter Devilpup writes:
So cake bakers have to serve everyone but liberal cafe owners can pick and choose who they will serve??????
Good point! Just another instance of how the liberals’ “new rules” are a one-way street. They can get away with such nonsense to the extent that we on the right have no political power.
It will get far worse before people do what needs to be done.
See my tag line.
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As a former Leftist I’ve been telling conservatives for years to get tough with these people. The Left uses violence as it’s stock in trade. We on the Right had better start paying them in their own coin.
“We on the Right had better start paying them in their own coin.”
Yep. Give them a bellyful.
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All things liberal must be sterilized with extreme prejudice! And there are no exceptions!
how, specifically, do you recommend we go about doing this?
” . ...hey are playing with fire.....”
Agree. They’re on a mission to totally destroy our country, our society, our culture...everything, and that includes even us. They’ll take civilization back to the Dark Ages. They want us dead and/or “displaced” with illegals and moslems. Every one of their points/policies etc. are formulated to destroy everything that now exists and to undermine our civilization and society. They’ve already pretty much destroyed the Rule of Law in this country and stepped up the violence towards us. It’s now well beyond the point of trying co-exist with them anymore. That should be more than evident to everyone now. So far, the push and violence has primarily come from them. At some point, the push back is coming and it’s gonna be ugly.
Just set the cops loose. Better yet give them THEIR OWN national holiday. Our side will be packin’.
Street violence is not the way to go. Surely there are enough former military, special ops, LEOs out there who could form militia groups for the purpose of targeted retribution against Antifa goons and other low-lifes.
Wouldn’t it be just awful if Antifa bullies wound up hogtied and stuffed into dumpsters. That would be about my minimum level of retribution.
They are all stirred up and not thinking. Part of the problem is that the Obama years were economically much more difficult for people not in the donor class than they should have been and tons of finger pointing ensued. This crap will end with a whimper and not a bang if somebody does a thorough accounting. Part of the problem is a lack of accountability.
No , stuffing folks into dumpsters isn’t the way to go. Confronting them at the scene , on the streets where they are is the best way to do it.
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Active law enforcement won’t be on the side of conservatives and patriots if and when things break down in the streets. One can daydream but hate to break it to you; some will be but not without a cost and most won’t...
“....Someone here recently noted Antifa tends to stay away from those states that have open carry laws....”
Yep...for now because they know in some places they’d all be outright shot on sight for doing what they’ve been doing. But once the UniParty disarms the People, Antifa will be everywhere as they are in Portland now. Once that happens, the takeover will be much easier (and safer) for them, and their Marist/Socialist master plan will fall right into place. They’ve got to be stopped by whatever means necessary....our country, everything we cherish, depends on it.
Part of the problem was also discovered by Quillette, which published an article the end of May about antifa linked journalists who are acting as apologists. Try googling antifa terrorist and you come up with a ton of articles about antifa bravely battling white nationalist and nazi terrorists.
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Thanks for responding to my post. I have to respectfully disagree and expand on my proposal for clandestine action.
I’ve gone over these scenarios a million times in my mind.
My reasoning is basically this — the hunters, Antifa, must become the hunted.
Street-level confrontations aren’t likely to accomplish this, considering that the media, certainly, and local authorities, often, will be covering for the Antifa goons.
Maybe a bold public stand might work if Antifa invades a conservative community. But again, the media ...
What I propose is clandestine actions targeting known Leftists for retribution, almost at random. The goal is to spread fear and paranoia on the Left, as none will know who is next to suffer.
These can be low-level actions. An abortion advocate gets her online identity stolen. A union thug gets a gas tank full of sugar.
Violence isn’t necessary, just enough retribution against property to give Lefists a taste of the kind of pain that we on the Right endure.
On the other hand, I will say that I believe the Antifa bullies who attacked Mr. Ngo deserve to be “disappeared.”
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