Posted on 09/06/2017 6:47:48 PM PDT by Lorianne
The quiet resistance — the one without black masks and clubs — is the more revolutionary force, and it transcends race, class, and gender.
After the election of Donald Trump, there arose a self-described “Resistance.” It apparently posed as a decentralized network of progressive activist groups dedicated to derailing the newly elected Trump administration.
Democrats and progressives borrowed their brand name from World War II French partisans. In rather psychodramatic fashion, they envisioned their heroic role over the next four years as that of virtual French insurgents — coming down from the Maquis hills, perhaps to waylay Trump’s White House, as if the president were an SS Obergruppenführer und General der Police running occupied Paris. Vanity Fair and Rolling Stone wrote admiringly about the furious Resistance’s pushback against Trump, with extravagant claims that his agenda was already derailed thanks to a zillion grass-roots and modern-day insurgents.
The Democratic National Committee leaders in their speeches resort to scatology to reflect their furor at Trump’s victory. The media, led by CNN in its visceral hatred of Trump, has given up past pretenses of disinterested reporting. Indeed, a number of journalists have sought to ratify their prejudices by claiming that Trump is so toxic that old-style protocols of fairness can no longer can apply.
Street brownshirts such as those of Antifa (too rarely and belatedly disowned by a few mainstream Resistance leaders) justify their anti-democratic and anti-constitutional violence on the grounds that Trump is found guilty of being a Nazi — and therefore those alleged to be Nazis have to be resisted by any anti-Nazi means necessary.
When everything is politicized and calibrated in terms of careerist advantage, there can be no politics other than a quiet resistance to the entire idea of politics itself.
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I LOVE THIS
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VDH almost gets it, almost.
Good article.
Trump is, in fact, the Left’s and the establishment’s last chance to avoid real violence and they’re preening about how best to piss it away. What Hanson describes as the quiet resistance has been thwarted in the jury box and swindled out of a clear victory in the ballot box. What is left is the cartridge box, and it isn’t very discriminate.
The thing they hate the most about Trump is that he took their power away.
He speaks directly– the media can’t ‘interpret’ his words.
It makes them crazy, and it’s a beautiful thing.
Agreed. I too admire and appreciate VDH for the sheer genius of his deeply studied understanding of culture and history. It seems in the case of DJT he falters on the human side. I trust Trump because he has learned to navigate the chaldron of human struggle with distinction born of an ability to cherish that which is most patriotic - family, work, fair play, and faith. It is surprising that Hanson holds these characteristics in such low repute.
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