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It’s Time for the Right to Return Fire
Klingenstein ^ | Tom Klingenstein

Posted on 09/29/2026 5:11:02 PM PDT by CFW

Lawfare is the strategic use of legal proceedings to intimidate, distract, defame, or destroy an opponent. Over the past decade, the Left has built a powerful, well-funded network that is carrying out Lawfare against our advocate class. The Left raised at least $183 million last year.

To examine lawfare, we must consider the current context, which is this: we are at war, a cold civil war, against a domestic regime which wants to overthrow America. It is correct to call it a “war,” and not just an unusually wide divide, because the contest is between two moral orders. From a given moral order there flows a given set of laws, values, customs, and other aspects of culture. Obviously, a society can have only one of each. The moral order of the enemy regime rests on group outcome equality. The moral order of our regime, on the other hand, rests on individual merit. ......

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One of the most powerful weapons in the Left’s arsenal is Lawfare. But we on the Right don’t understand this; we don’t understand either the nature or power of the Left’s Lawfare.

It’s time we learn.

The 65 Project is the best example of leftist Lawfare. Devised by Melissa Moss and David Brock, two Democrat operatives with ties to Hillary Clinton, the Project has sought “not only [to] bring the grievances in the bar complaints, but shame [Right-wing lawyers] and make them toxic.”

Elsewhere, David Brock says the central aim of the Project is to “threat[en] the livelihood[s]” of Republican and conservative lawyers, noting that the power of Lawfare comes from its “deterrent effect.” The goal, Brock underscores, is to “kill the pool of legal talent” on the Right.

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Klingenstein is right. The Democrats make rules for the right, and only the right, to play by. We need to start using the same methods against the left.
1 posted on 09/29/2026 5:11:02 PM PDT by CFW
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To: CFW

The difference is, when we fire back, we will do so within the bounds of law...

And when they do it, they won’t.

I’m okay with that, because we have grounds and can do it if we have the gumption, and they have nothing but lies and their illegality to bring their fire to bear on us.


2 posted on 09/29/2026 5:16:48 PM PDT by rlmorel (Gas prices are Temporary. Communism is Forever. Vote Republican.)
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To: CFW
Oh, the commies have plans.


3 posted on 09/29/2026 5:23:18 PM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: Libloather

Posted it earlier. Where’s our Lee Atwater?


4 posted on 09/29/2026 5:25:11 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: CFW

I believe Ric Flair one said something to the tune of “ If you want to play dirty, be the dirtiest player in the game”.

I can;t find the exact quote.

If you take out one of mine, I take out 6 of yours and call it even.

Before too long, I think the opposition will figure it out.


5 posted on 09/29/2026 5:33:14 PM PDT by RightWingNut
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To: CFW

“Return fire”??

Here I was hoping it was a call to start wasting the scum.

Words, more words, while the liberals continue to do whatever knowing the “system” will go easy on them.


6 posted on 09/29/2026 5:38:31 PM PDT by doorgunner69
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To: doorgunner69

We’re not there yet. But I have a feeling it’s waiting in the wings. The left’s almost continual protests are starting to receive pushback. And our side is much, much more heavily armed.

CC


7 posted on 09/29/2026 5:51:36 PM PDT by Celtic Conservative (Heghlu'meH QaQ jajvam!)
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To: Celtic Conservative

Being armed is meaningless if the police arrest and prosecute every gun owner who uses their gun.

The judiciary is leftist fickle.


8 posted on 09/29/2026 5:54:44 PM PDT by Chickensoup
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To: Chickensoup

That will just make the eventual battle more gruesome. The reason being that the right will only commit to that course of action after they feel they have nothing to lose. Sun Tzu warned his students to never lead your enemy into a situation where they have nothing to lose, because they’ll fight like lions.

CC


9 posted on 09/29/2026 6:06:12 PM PDT by Celtic Conservative (Heghlu'meH QaQ jajvam!)
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To: CFW

We on the right aka conservative tried to play by the rules. We have really tried.

The leftists declined.

I for one am no longer playing by the rules. The left chose war. They have it. Some leftidiots are about to find what pissing me off means. Sorry about your bank accounts, home titles, etc. And I am tiny compared to my p###ed off friends.


10 posted on 09/29/2026 6:11:21 PM PDT by piytar (NEVER FORGET Ashli Babbitt, Rosanne Boyland, Corey Comperatore, Iryna Zarutska, and Charlie Kirk!)
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To: piytar

Find out^*


11 posted on 09/29/2026 6:13:58 PM PDT by piytar (NEVER FORGET Ashli Babbitt, Rosanne Boyland, Corey Comperatore, Iryna Zarutska, and Charlie Kirk!)
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To: CFW

One of the most powerful weapons in the Left’s arsenal is Lawfare. But we on the Right don’t understand this; we don’t understand either the nature or power of the Left’s Lawfare.

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I understand our corrupt law system that is dominated by by liberals.

The bigger question for me is:

Why do so many conservatives buy into the expensive, wasteful, corrupt, liberal, urban, status quo of a “law system” that is rigged against us?

The answer is to stop enabling it and dry up the ability of the corrupt law system to do very much outside of prosecuting violent crime.

No money for it, no more lawfare.


12 posted on 09/29/2026 7:02:22 PM PDT by unclebankster (Globalism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. )
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To: CFW

The Democrat Party is a terrorist organization. I think we can dispense with lawfare and start charging them with instigating sedition and treason. There have been some blatant examples of that.


13 posted on 09/29/2026 7:16:17 PM PDT by TigersEye (The Marxist Media works hand in glove with the Democrat terrorists.)
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To: Libloather

Photo....

My ambition is to go from KAOS fearless leader to a doctor on a cruise ship hitting on a different lonely woman each week.
🛳️🌅🏝️


14 posted on 09/29/2026 10:32:48 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: RightWingNut

RE: Ric Flair reference.

Makes me feel old to know his little girl is all grown up and smashing opponents.

https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=ric+flair+daughter+in+wrestling&FORM=HDRSC3

I heard a speaker once who said he was proud of his daughter who had become a Marine, completing the rigorous combat training and ready to fight.
“She’s still my daughter and I’m still her dad and I can try to give her guidance and tell her what she should do. The only difference now is if she disagrees she can snap my neck.”


15 posted on 09/29/2026 10:39:38 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: CFW

No - I was told Republicans have to be gentlemen and doing this only makes us look silly. We have to keep simping to the Democrats, because that’s what gentlemen do.


16 posted on 09/30/2026 3:46:29 AM PDT by Merrick (It's a car - that runs on water, man.)
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