The Resistance Show Goes On … For Now

What a show. A banner unfurled last week by activists in Washington read: Resistance. The movement has now gone “inside” the federal government. Some federal workers apparently do not agree with President Trump’s election or mandate. Senate Democrats are giddy.

Then-acting Attorney General Sally Yates instructed lawyers in the Justice Department not to defend President Trump's anti-terror executive order, aimed at protecting Americans through heightened refugee vetting and a temporary halt to entrants from terror-riven countries. The nation’s chief executive had no choice. He rewarded this act of intentional nonperformance and official insubordination with firing. He replaced her with Dana Boente, who has upheld the law. A president in the right was forced to fire an acting attorney general in the wrong.

But … watch the howls to go up. First, the left will draw a parallel to Richard Nixon’s “Saturday Night Massacre,” which was the exact opposite of what just happened. In that case, a president in the wrong, fired a special prosecutor in the right, forcing two other high level resignations.

Facts: President Nixon – to whom Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox had issued a subpoena for tapes tied to Watergate – told Attorney General Elliot Richardson to fire Cox. Having promised Congress he would not, Cox resigned. His deputy, similarly bound, did the same. Eventually, the solicitor general, with grave reservations, fired Cox. That was the complete opposite of this week’s situation. But watch the left trot this out, referencing Nixon.

Next watch – all predictable – as the left backhands the newly appointed acting Attorney General Boente, for enforcing federal law. While his tenure will be short, they will stretch it with delays on incoming Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ confirmation. Why? No good reason. Just because they can. While Senator Sessions should have been confirmed by now, they will stage speeches, do more grandstanding, and delay his confirmation for a week or so.

Then, they will pivot. The left will begin howling for wider “resistance” from federal judges, hoping to undermine the presidential directive – and president. Senate Democrats may believe they have nothing to lose. But they do. They will raise a chorus for more “resistance” across the federal government to the president, who is trying to protect average Americans.

They miscalculate. These Senate Democrats do not see how America sees them. They do not see that America recognizes that they are a divided party, veering hard left, leaving moderates and average Americans who thought they were Democrats – alone. This – to a lesser degree – happened between 1980 and 1984, leading to a 49-state landslide by Ronald Reagan in his reelection. But that prospect lies far ahead. For now, Democrats raze the roof with howls to resist – and yet, to what end?

Pivoting to State, they will laud grousing Foreign Service Officers who think “resisting” will somehow help keep their jobs, or intimidate the president or his not-yet-confirmed Secretary of State. Think again. Another serious miscalculation. As a portion of the federal workforce “resists” this president’s agenda, propounding lofty diplomatic observations, they undercut their own position – and their own government.

They think the secretary will distance himself from the president who appointed him, extending remarks he made on Russia. Very doubtful. The measure of this man is integrity, and the executive order is lawful. If all laws warrant review, some tweaks and revisions; if most rollouts are bumpy, especially at the start of an administration changing course, disavowing an executive order is not in the cards.

Soon enough, lively diplomats will wish they had interposed a “diplomatic pause” in their resistance. All this effort to undermine President Trump seems almost coordinated. But such “resistors” do not see what the average Americans see – self-serving acts of self-absorption.

Finally, expect the disaffected left to start finding “victims” of the president’s protective executive action, throwing up interlocutory orders, seeking preliminary injunctions, holding forth for the objectively-hard-to-vet refugees. Members of Congress will offer bills with grand names –but no chance of passage. They will press resistance to the president they hoped would not win, but did. They do not understand.

Facts: They forget, for example, that President Carter banned Iranians from entering the US, cancelled their visas in 1979, no notice. He too had a bad rollout. They do not mention Iran was 99 percent Muslim, then and now; a promotor of terrorism, and a place where religious minorities were regularly persecuted, and continue to be. These historical facts are forgotten, perhaps because they are doubly inconvenient, now that former President Obama cut a Faustian “nuclear deal” with Iran – which just launched another forbidden ballistic missile. Inconvenient facts abound.

All comes back to the show. Ralph Waldo Emerson said, “A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.” The left’s unrepentant “resistance” to average Americans is such a foolish consistency. But then that is why we have elections, and will in two years.

As once rational Democrats veer further and further left, abandoning their party’s prior practices, principles and pretense to balance, egging each other to be less cooperative with President Trump, America just watches. They see and they will remember. Exactly 24 Senate Democrats will be up for reelection in two years. The gamble is breathtaking. Is cooperation so hard, resistance so alluring? Apparently so. The show goes on.

Found this in the comment section of an article:

For those of you who don’t know me, I have extensive history and connections in leftist activism from previous movements, but I’m essentially a pariah now because I split with them when the the SJWs seized power from the older relatively moderate activists and went full authoritarianism. None the less.. I’m still in all those social circles and I see the discussions going on behind the scenes.

After a long progression, and seeing how things have settled out after the Trump election: We’re headed for rebellion and possibly a full blown civil war. I’ve always been skeptical of that largely because neither side would be willing to fire the first shot. That is no longer the case. There is universal calls for, planning of, and efforts to conduct warfare within the left right now. And I don’t mean that in the metaphorical sense. They are raising their army.

What’s always held the left back in the past is that they knew they could never win in a violent conflict. Both because of a lack of skill, experience, and equipment, but also because of internal disagreement on tactics; being that most within the left would not engage in violence because they believed the greatest strategy was to hold the moral high ground and ruin support and assistance to their opponents. This is no longer the case.

Within the left the pacifists have been solidly silenced by a massive propaganda effort and intimidation (expressing even remotely pacifist views within the left right now can put you in physical danger and in danger of losing things like employment and other social and economic needs). Even people who were extremely vocal and dedicated absolute pacifists, are now reduced to at the very least openly providing passive support for political violence. At this point ‘punching NAZIs’ is all the rage. They’ve managed to dehumanize their political opponents so that’s no longer considered wrong to physically harm them. They’re all looking for a NAZI to punch. And right now anyone who does it perfectly mirror their political views, is a NAZI. And it’s already primed to move into ‘killing NAZIs.’’

And of course the biggest limiting factor is that they have known that they do not stand a chance against a well armed and sufficiently skilled political rights and moderates. After countless efforts to disarm the right in order to reduce it to an inferior fighting force, the AnComs and such have moved to arming themselves. It is no longer a social taboo. Everyone accepts it as a necessary evil. But beyond the arms, the turning point on this front is that they now universally believe themselves to have such a massive majority of the population backing them that they have a significant military advantage. This due to propoganda efforts (the same ones that told them Hillary was going to win in a landslide) and because of a massive mobilization network. They believe they can mass so many people at one location so quickly that they can overwhelm defenders and seize their resources, disperse, and then strike again repeatedly until the right has been defeated.

Here’s an example of what I’m seeing being said within activist circles:

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History may occur in patterns but it’s hardly predictable, least of all to the participants on the ground. In late October, no one really expected Trump would win. And tonight we are witnessing another unpredictable scenario—less than a week after the largest protests in US history, thousands of people across the country are shutting down airports to help their Muslim brothers and sisters. Make no mistake, what we’re seeing is unlike anything our country has seen in decades. It’s like Occupy and Black Lives Matter, immigration, and the nuclear protests all wrapped into one giant orange **** storm. I’m putting my chips on the table: Trump will be the first President brought down by a popular revolution...and it’s going to happen in months not years. Obama’s presidency bought mileage for the empire by assuaging liberals, but Trump is stepping on the gas with empty fumes. We are going to get our second revolution, and it will be spectacular.

This is not what I was expecting to see after a Trump election. I figured people would just get moody and ****y and whine and gripe, but eventually moderate themselves and return to the old left. I was expecting 4 more years of the left from the Bush years. Instead they’ve doubled down on everything and gotten far more extreme in their desire to forcefully impose their will on others and their belief that they have the power to successfully do so. These people are in a frenzy and they’re now completing with each other as to who’s the most militant and violent. That spiral will eventually escalate to a point of open conflict. I’ve never been so worried about a civil war as I am right now. And with my pariah status I’m concerned I worry I may very well become a target. It’s enough that I’m out of the political debate for safety reasons, just like a couple years ago I had to pull out of street protesting for the same reason.

What I expect at this point is something that will play out on a very similar path as the 2014 Ukrainian revolution.

http://www.survivalistboards.com/showthread.php?t=665529

Up to this time, the “protestors” have never really met any resistance. They have for the most part been allowed to riot at will. Those unlucky enough to get arrested are seldom punished.

With full scale armed violence the rules will change.

On a separate point, as a Combat Veteran I had trained a full year before being sent into combat and I still was not fully prepared for the chaos, the noise, the death, the cries of the wounded and looking someone in the face as I killed them. 50 years later I still have the memories.

While I don’t doubt there are some in these groups are willing and able to murder someone I doubt these snowflakes have what it takes to go into combat against trained troops.

They are going to discover it is not like the movies or a video game. You get shot, you are not going to be able to get up and shake it off and go about your business. If they get shot while rioting, they would be better off if they died because once they got well enough they will be tried and sent to prison.

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