Will a Hard-Left Turn Lead to Pushback?

National Review ^ | 2/4/2021 | Victor Davis Hanson

[Onthebrink]

The corruption of the Renaissance Church prompted the Reformation, which in turn sparked a Counter-Reformation of reformist, and more zealous, Catholics.

The cultural excesses and economic recklessness of the Roaring ’20s were followed by the bleak, dour, and impoverished years of the Great Depression.

[caww]

Exactly....and yes we are definitely in troubled times now and going forward.

[glennaro]

Also, it takes courage to fight back. Far too many Americans remain paralyzed with irrational fear and deep depression over the Communist Chinese virus — a virus with a 99.99 percent recovery rate — as well as the tyranny of the governors and unelected bureaucrats. For the most part and at least for now, America has become a Nation of Cowards too mentally and physically weak to engage the communist/Democrat enemies who today rule with iron fists.

[caww]

Yep...I have no reason to think much that we do will alter the trajectory we’re on now. The will nor the representation is just not there as we just saw in this election......

I believed Trump was our last hope when I voted for him both times. So our nation will now loose the power it once had....and is doing so rapidly as I write.

[caww]

Yep...I have no reason to think much that we do will alter the trajectory we’re on now. The will nor the representation is just not there as we just saw in this election......

I believed Trump was our last hope when I voted for him both times. So our nation will now loose the power it once had....and is doing so rapidly as I write.

[JayAr36]

With as weak as we are right now I worry that one of our enemies will take the advantage and attack.

[Billthedrill]

One thing that seems certain, and very ironic, is that the lurch to the left in both political parties and the onset of high-tech and popular cultural fascism, is that half of the country is now the counterculture and we didn't even do anything. However desirable simply being left alone is, it isn't an option anymore. It's as old as history: "Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you." was stated by Pericles in the fifth century BC.

So it isn't really a case of blowback, at least not yet, but there certainly is a measurable level of reaction that is visibly freaking certain Democrats out. The ridiculous "insurrection" claims have a core of real fear underneath - "What if it really was what we're pretending it was?" Still, it's full speed ahead toward the silencing and the camps and the crash when it does hit the wall might just be closer than anyone in the media cares to admit at present. We'll see.

[caww]

Well we’re already under attack...from within...and with the southern border opening...well they just caught 11 Iranians who jumped the border into Arizona.

[JayAr36]

So what do you think is going to be done about it. So few people that care about this country left that we may all have to learn another language.

[Organic Panic]

“Who cares?” -democrats, media, big tech.

They told us they will cheat and they did. They did it right in front of the world and laughed about it. Now they have a razor wire fence and standing army to protect them. Now is the dehumanizing their enemies phase. Much easier to eliminate untermencsh.

[SaraJohnson]

If we could vote them out, they’d be gone. But elections are stolen just like any other third world nation. Americans have their backs against the wall. And we have belligerent masters. We would have to unite to fight but no telling what we’d get in the aftermath.