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Hamas Supporters Protest AOC, Bernie For Not Being Pro-Hamas Enough - The Left is driving itself off a cliff.
Front Page Magazine ^ | 23 Jun, 2024 | Daniel Greenfield

Posted on 06/23/2024 5:11:31 AM PDT by MtnClimber

One of the ways to tell apart moderates and extremists is checking the brakes. The other is the constant infighting. And the two are connected. Extremists have no brakes so their movement is always going to new extremes and tomorrow’s radicals are cannibalizing yesterday’s radicals.

In my book,‘Domestic Enemies: The Founding Fathers’ Fight Against The Left’, I quoted a very telling line about the French Revolution.

“As the revolution becomes radical, the Right disappears, and the Left of one assembly becomes the Right of the succeeding assembly,” Mignet explained, describing how each new political incarnation became more radical than the last. “The Left of the national assembly became the Right of the legislative assembly,” he wrote, and then “the Left of the legislative assembly became the Right of the convention.”

Finally, he concluded, “the Left of the convention were those red terrorists known as the Mountain party.”4 These “red terrorists,” including Robespierre, were the worst of the Jacobins and would cover France in blood as they purged not only conservatives, but fellow leftists.

On that note, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Bernie Sanders showed up at a rally to save Rep. Jamaal Bowman. This is a big deal because saving Bowman has become a litmus test for the Left’s electoral strength and that of the anti-Israel crowd in Congress. If they can save Bowman, they will claim that the Squad’s power is growing and AIPAC has been beaten.

So the Left has a lot invested in it. Or so you would think. But when you have no brakes, this happens.

Pro-Hamas protestors disrupted a joint rally between Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-N.Y.), and Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-Vermont) on Saturday.

The protest was organized by Within Our Lives, a self-described Palestinian-led, New York pro-terrorist organization.

“Endorsing Biden is endorsing the ongoing genocide in Gaza,” Within Our Lifetime wrote in a thread on X promoting the demonstration at the rally.

WOL was furious that AOC, trying to prop up Bowman and conduct outreach to some Jewish leftists, had condemned the antisemitism at one of its more deranged rallies at which the group got a mob to cheer claims that Jews at the Nova musical festival had it coming on Oct 7 while protesting a commemoration of the victims.

So WOL came to protest the Save Bowman rally. And how do you respond to that.

“I’m not supposed to fight back? We’re gonna show them who the f–k we are!” Bowman told the crowd as pro-Palestine protesters attempted to disrupt the rally with chants in a video uploaded to X. He proceeded to lead the crowd in a “cease-fire now” chant.

Classic Mensheviks vs. Bolsheviks. But the only way to break the cycle is for the Bolshies to take over and purge everyone else. Until the Left can do that, it’s a machine for spitting out even worse versions of itself.


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: danielgreenfield; greenfield; leftism; sultanknish

1 posted on 06/23/2024 5:11:31 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

It does seem like our Jacobins are eating each other. Time for popcorn.


2 posted on 06/23/2024 5:11:51 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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To: texas booster

Daniel Greenfield ping


3 posted on 06/23/2024 5:12:18 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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To: MtnClimber

Before the Left eats itself it first has to finish eating us.


4 posted on 06/23/2024 5:30:30 AM PDT by TTFlyer (Lenin: that by the infliction of terror, a well-organized minority can conquer a nation.)
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To: MtnClimber

Napoleon once said
“Never interrupt an enemy while he’s making a mistake”

What we are seeing is NOT a fight between leftists and more-radical leftists. We are seeing an attempted takeover of the Democrat party by Muslim nationalists, who figure they can use identity politics to their advantage.


5 posted on 06/23/2024 5:30:34 AM PDT by SauronOfMordor (Either you will rule. Or you will be ruled. There is no other choice.)
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To: MtnClimber

The distinguishing difference between the American and French revolutions, was the American revolution was the middle class being tired of being milked by the British elites, while the French Revolution turned into a contest of who would grab and keep the expropriated wealth of the old aristocracy.

In a competition between thieves, the more ruthless killers win.


6 posted on 06/23/2024 5:35:12 AM PDT by SauronOfMordor (Either you will rule. Or you will be ruled. There is no other choice.)
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To: MtnClimber

TOTALITARIANS v totalitarians...down the stretch they come. At the wire it’s TOTALITARIANS by a severed head. The “strong horse”. We all lost.


7 posted on 06/23/2024 6:05:00 AM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: SauronOfMordor

“...the more ruthless killers win.”

BUMP


8 posted on 06/23/2024 6:19:26 AM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: MtnClimber
"The Left is driving itself off a cliff..."

Because THIS TIME, Communism WILL work...even thought it never has!

9 posted on 06/23/2024 7:24:44 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have, 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set. )
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To: MtnClimber

This is all theater. Every one of these protesters will still vote for the most far left democrat in every election.


10 posted on 06/23/2024 7:26:11 AM PDT by circlecity
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To: MtnClimber
"...The Left is driving itself off a cliff.

Same cock-and-bull story I've been hearing for more than half a century. If that's true, either that cliff is very far away or the demoncrats are driving mighty slow, because they should have run off it decades ago.

The truth is, when depravity is the linchpin of your plan for the new world order, it isn't possible to sink too low.

11 posted on 06/23/2024 7:52:06 AM PDT by Paal Gulli
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To: circlecity
This is all theater. Every one of these protesters will still vote for the most far left democrat in every election.

It is not Leftists voting that matters anymore. It is when their "mostly peaceful protests" against each other's factions turn into violent confrontations and assassinations that matters.

They are escalating to that point. It is a key indicator of when we may be able to take effective actions to remove the Leftists from power. Wait for it.

"Effective actions" might actually include voting them out of office.

12 posted on 06/23/2024 8:35:56 AM PDT by flamberge (It seemed like a good idea at the time...)
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To: Robert A Cook PE; 100American; 21twelve; 2nd amendment mama; A Conservative Thinker; ...
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, is a New York writer focusing on radical Islam and leftism.

Classic Mensheviks vs. Bolsheviks. But the only way to break the cycle is for the Bolshies to take over and purge everyone else. Until the Left can do that, it’s a machine for spitting out even worse versions of itself.

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13 posted on 06/23/2024 9:58:06 AM PDT by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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To: MtnClimber

“The Left is driving itself off a cliff.”
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The problem is, they’re taking us with them...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DSWQ3AkIXM


14 posted on 06/23/2024 10:08:39 AM PDT by unread (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the REPUBLIC..!)
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To: texas booster
The Left is driving itself off a cliff.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>


15 posted on 06/23/2024 10:16:23 AM PDT by Candor7 (Ask not for whom the Trump Trolls,He trolls for thee!),<img src="" width=500</img><a href="">tag</a>)
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To: MtnClimber

I hope they don’t get a tummy ache.


16 posted on 06/24/2024 6:32:01 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Child in need of a CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
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To: MtnClimber

Classic Tower of Babel stuff. Every initiative.


17 posted on 06/24/2024 8:59:54 AM PDT by oldbrowser ( democrats and Democracy are polar opposites)
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