https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/08/left-reflex-toward-illiberal-democracy/
The Reflex toward Illiberal Democracy
By Kevin D. Williamson
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There’s always an emergency, it seems, to justify the Left’s rush to tyranny.
There are two rules for illiberal democracy.
The first rule is that during an emergency certain illiberal and anti-democratic measures are necessary to ensure public safety, national security, and the practice of democracy itself.
The second rule is that there is always an emergency.
With the horrifying massacres in El Paso and Dayton, political entrepreneurs already are taking recourse to the tenets of illiberal democracy. But because this is the United States, and the most powerful nation in the world is governed by criminals, miscreants, and morons, illiberal democracy is not the scoundrels’ last recourse — it is their first recourse.
Cory Booker, trafficker in absurd racial conspiracy theories, is a great practitioner of illiberal democracy. In response to the shootings over the weekend, he demanded that . . . Republican campaign rallies be canceled as a public-safety measure. President Donald Trump’s rallies, he insists without anything that might plausibly be described as evidence, “inspire white nationalist attacks like the one in El Paso on Saturday.” Somehow, the pursuit of public safety always ends up disadvantaging the other party’s political efforts. One might be forgiven for failing to take Senator Booker seriously, for this and for many other reasons.
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Others have called for gutting the Bill of Rights and trampling on due process, empowering government to curtail, suspend, or revoke the civil rights of Americans who have not been arrested or charged with any crime, much less convicted of one.
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Democrats would impose licensing on political criticism in the guise of “campaign finance reform” and would prohibit the communication of certain unpopular ideas as “hate speech.” Progressives have argued for jailing people holding dissenting views on climate change, and Democratic prosecutors have in fact investigated companies and political advocates on precisely those grounds. Some elements of the Left, such as Antifa, have openly embraced violence as a means of suppressing unpopular political speech, but Senator Booker’s more polite model is more common and, if anything, more insidious.
https://donsurber.blogspot.com/2019/08/today-in-hate.html
Today in hate
After denouncing hate on Sunday, Democrats went back on Monday to calling for violence against conservatives.
In Kentucky, Mitch McConnell is convalescing at home after breaking a shoulder.
Nancy’s Army went to his house to harass him. He’s 77.
The New York Post reported, “Gun control supporters stood outside Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s home in Kentucky on Sunday night — protesting and hurling death threats at him — while broadcasting on Facebook Live.
“’Murder Turtle!’ the demonstrators can be heard shouting on video, in reference to McConnell’s infamous nickname.
“’Come out, come out, wherever you are,’ a person says at one point, while the others continue to yell.
“’The bitch home — we keep seeing the lights go on and off,’ another says. ‘This hoe really thought he was going to get ready to be at home after he hurt his little punk ass shoulder. Bitch, don’t nobody give a f–k! F–k your thoughts and prayers, Mitch. F–k you, f–k your wife, f–k everything you stand for.’”
Who paid to transport these villains to Kentucky? Who paid for their meals and lodging?
Republican McConnell’s predecessor as majority leader, Democrat Harry Reid, injured himself on a TheraBand exercise device. No one sent bands of “protesters” to disturb his rest or to try to intimidate him.
Then there is Congressmuslim Rashida Tlaib who mocked Jewish prayer.
She tweeted to Ivanka Trump, “Your prayers aren’t working. Try checking your dad on his tweets. 251 mass shootings in the U.S. in 216 days.
“He incites violence every day with his hate agenda and racism. More people are dying b/c he fails to fight white supremacist terrorists.
They are the ones who hate America.
The “mass shootings” as she called them are largely by Democrats in Democrat areas such as Baltimore and Chicago. Both gunmen in El Paso and Dayton were registered Democrats. One was an Elizabeth Warren supporter.
It gets worse. The Washington Examiner reported, “A Trump adviser with 38 years in law enforcement, who appeared on Fox to dismiss charges that the president hasn’t done enough to stop mass shootings, said that he has been threatened and the FBI and U.S. Secret Service are on the case.
“Navy reservist and former FBI terrorist task force member Steven Rogers, after appearing on Fox yesterday, was threatened on a blog by a man who said he could be shot ‘with a bullet hole through his chest. That’s our reality now. We’re all just waiting our turn.’
“Rogers, speaking from his Nutley, New Jersey home, said, ‘this could be a trigger, what he wrote. Maybe this guy Rogers should be shot. This is serious.’”
We must take every threat from Democrats seriously because as we discovered once again this weekend they too have guns and are willing to shoot.