[matthew fuller]

"What people on the Right need to internalise is that left-wingers are not really Americans, by their own “propositional citizenship” standard that they’ve assiduously sought to establish for decades. If being a “real American” depends on adherence to certain propositions upon which American civil society is based (as opposed to more natural and historical bases like ethnicity, language, and culture), then the progressive Left fails to meet the criteria. They’ve done nothing but undermine and destroy the traditional American nation, liberties, and institutions. They don’t get to claim the mantle now after systematically trying to blow up (sometimes literally) everything for their permanent revolution. "

The preceding is the most perceptive crystallization of the left's recent "temper tantrum" that I have ever seen laid out on paper. Chilton nailed it with brilliance.

[Mama Shawna]

I loved this:

But norms are only norms when everybody agrees to abide by them. Since this is obviously not happening anymore - since even threatening the lives of Supreme Court justices and burning down entire city centres when you don’t get your way are apparently on the table - it’s time to abandon this idea entirely and just deal with radical lefties however we want. That’s “unfair”? Well, life ain’t fair, so get a helmet.