Posted on 03/15/2016 8:03:05 AM PDT by Kaslin
This past Friday, a left-wing mob shut down a Donald Trump rally in Chicago. Most Americans viewing what happened saw it for what it was -- another left-wing assault on the speech of those with whom they differ and on traditional American civility.
Not surprisingly, the media reporting has concentrated overwhelmingly on Trump for incendiary and inexcusable comments he has made at some of his other rallies that were disrupted by protesters. For example, he offered to pay any legal bills incurred by a man in the audience who sucker-punched a protester as he was being led out of a Trump rally.
Many have also noted the alleged assault by Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski, who was accused of trying to grab Breitbart reporter Michelle Fields' arm. (I say "alleged" because I have watched the video of the alleged incident four times but could not ascertain what actually took place.)
For the record, I have been relentless in my criticisms of Donald Trump, both in print and on my radio show, preferring any other Republican candidate. Based on his past, I have not had any reason to trust him as a conservative or as a Republican, and he has exhibited serious character flaws.
Nevertheless, truth must trump opposition to Trump.
And the truth is that the left-wing attack on Trump's Chicago rally had little, if anything, to do with what the incendiary comments Donald Trump has made about attacking protestors at his events. Leftist mobs attack and shut down events with which they differ as a matter of course. They do so regularly on American college campuses, where conservative speakers -- on the rare occasion they are invited -- are routinely shouted down by left-wing students (and sometimes faculty) or simply disinvited as a result of leftist pressure on the college administration.
A couple of weeks ago conservative writer and speaker Ben Shapiro was disinvited from California State University, Los Angeles. When he nevertheless showed up, 150 left-wing demonstrators blocked the entrance to the theater in which he was speaking, and sounded a fire alarm to further disrupt his speech.
In just the last year, left-wing students have violently taken over presidents' or deans' offices at Princeton, Virginia Commonwealth University, Dartmouth, Providence College, Harvard, Lewis & Clark College, Temple University and many others. Conservative speakers have either been disinvited or shouted down at Brandeis University, Brown University, the University of Michigan and myriad other campuses.
And leftists shout down virtually every pro-Israel speaker, including the Israeli ambassador to the United States, at every university to which they are invited to speak.
Yet the mainstream media simply ignore this left-wing thuggery -- while reporting that the shutting down of a pro-Trump rally is all Trump's fault for his comments encouraging roughing up protestors at his events.
That the left shuts down people with whom it differs is a rule in every leftist society. The left -- not classical liberals, I hasten to note -- is totalitarian by nature. In the 20th century, the century of totalitarianism, virtually every totalitarian regime in the world was a leftist regime. And the contemporary American university -- run entirely by the left -- is becoming a totalitarian state, where only left-wing ideas are tolerated.
Tens of millions of Americans look at what the left is doing to universities, and what it has done to the news and entertainment media, and see its contempt for the First Amendment's protection of free speech. They see Donald Trump attacked by this left, and immediately assume that only Trump will take on, in the title words of Jonah Goldberg's modern classic, "Liberal Fascism."
And if these millions had any doubt that Trump alone will confront left-wing fascism, Trump's opponents seemed to provide proof. Like the mainstream media, the three remaining Republican candidates for president -- John Kasich, the most and Marco Rubio the least -- blamed Trump for the left-wing hooligans more than they blamed the left. It is possible that in doing so Senators Cruz and Rubio and Governor Kasich effectively ended their campaigns and ensured the nomination of Trump as the Republican candidate for president. The combination of left-wing violence and the use of it by the other GOP candidates to wound Trump rather than label the left as the mortal threat to liberty that it is may clinch Trump's nomination.
And if the left continues to violently disrupt Trump rallies, they -- along with the total absence of condemnation by the Democratic Party and its presidential candidate -- may well ensure that Donald Trump is elected president. Between the play-Fascism of Trump and the real Fascism of the left, most Americans will know which one to fear most.
This is the path Cruz should have taken. But did not.
“For example, he offered to pay any legal bills incurred by a man in the audience who sucker-punched a protester as he was being led out of a Trump rally. “
This isn’t true. He said he’d consider it.
No that they can no longer use the meme “A majority voted against Trump”
BREAKING! Trump breaks 50% in new national poll! http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3409492/posts
this will be their new meme.
If Trump got 99% of the Republican vote, they would say he doesn’t attract enough Democrat or Independent voters.
Correct, he sold his soul for votes.
Prager gets it and isn’t afraid to state it despite his opposition to Trump. That’s refreshing and quite a contrast to Cruz, Rubio and Kasich who sacrificed their values for a chance to score political points.
I will be Glad when all this crap is over with. Sick and tired of GOPe. Hand Wringing. Every little winnie politician Afraid to talk about out of control illegal and legal immigration. Ann Coulter has it right, read her columns.
The left is the no-empathy team.
Studies show that they—literally—cannot walk a mile in someone else’s shoes. So, they will just keep doing what they are doing, not comprehending they are helping Trump, because they can’t comprehend the mind of Trump’s supporters.
No empathy.
Why is it that despite his admission of ardent opposition against Trump and an admonition to all concerned on the left and principled right on the consequences of the Trump violence-incitement meme really isn’t about ‘truth’ at all, but a tangibly real fear of the backlash those of us out here DISGUSTED with the UNIPARTY ELITES of this country will visit upon their decades of duplicitous treachery?
Hey, I could swear I saw those three chicks on Maury testifyin how Tyrone is they baby daddy and how he gonna pay up.
On one of the earlier announcements FOX reported that the man who was sucker punched, gave the finger to the audience on his way out.
Yep. He knows better than that.
>>Correct, he sold his soul for votes.<<
That he didn’t get.
The Whack left will do more than anything to get Trump elected!!! Just keep it up you f’ing idiots!
Teddy is Cruzin to a Luzin. :-)
The girl holding the sign looks like she will make some unlucky person very miserable one day.
In the video I’ve seen on youtube the protester was shooting the finger and screaming immediately prior to the punch. The MSM have carefully scrubed the video to make it appear he has his fists in the air but in fact they are blurred middlefingers.
And leftists shout down virtually every pro-Israel speaker, including the Israeli ambassador to the United States, at every university to which they are invited to speak. Yet the mainstream media simply ignore this left-wing thuggery -- while reporting that the shutting down of a pro-Trump rally is all Trump's fault for his comments encouraging roughing up protestors at his events.
The press is useless in our country - they don't report on problems - they ARE the problem.
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