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How Democrat Rage is Destroying America - Greenfield
FrontPage ^ | October 11, 2018 | Greenfield

Posted on 10/13/2018 4:20:10 PM PDT by Louis Foxwell

A deranged radical movement gets high on its own fury. October 11, 2018 Daniel Greenfield

Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical left and Islamic terrorism.

“Use the rage,” former Attorney General Eric Holder scream-tweeted. “Get people out to vote and be rid of these people.”

Had President Trump urged his supporters to channel their rage into politics, the quote would have been good for a week of sanctimonious media lectures about his destruction of democratic norms. Not to mention his dangerous divisiveness, the risk of violence and the high price of tea in Outer Mongolia.

But the media has neither the interest nor the inclination to even note Holder’s ‘rage’ tweet. It’s too busy preaching anger, fury and hatred to the same shrieking choir of maddened lefties screaming at the sky, having meltdowns on social media and clawing madly at the doors of the Supreme Court.

"We need to stay angry about Kavanaugh," E.J. Dionne Jr. fulminates in the Washington Post. But that’s nothing compared to the New York Times where the old gray lady is frenziedly distempered all the time.

"Get Angry, and Get Involved," an op-ed screeches. "Tears, Fury or Action: How Do You Express Anger?", an op-ed from a few days before shrills. “Fury Is a Political Weapon And Women Need to Wield It,” a third howls. That’s a lot of anger from the megaphone of the privileged wealthy northeastern left.

There hasn’t been this much peevishness on Martha’s Vineyard since they raised the yacht docking fees.

The New York Times and the Washington Post are echoing Holder’s call for political anger. Rage will solve all of America’s problems. If the Democrats stay angry, they’ll take over the government and be truly ready to unleash their rage on “these people”. Otherwise known as the rest of the country.

Even as the media preaches the virtues of leftist rage, it warns about the threat of Republican anger.

"Brett Kavanaugh's Anger May be Backfiring," the Washington Post had hopefully speculated earlier. "Judge Kavanaugh is One Angry Man," the New York Times spat. "Kavanaugh Borrows From Trump's Playbook on White Male Anger," it threw in.

But there’s a fundamental difference between Kavanaugh’s anger and that of the media left.

Brett Kavanaugh was angry because he had been falsely accused of rape by the media, with no actual evidence. His life was torn apart. His family, as he testified, had been “destroyed”. Democrats demanded that a 53-year-old man account for every detail of his high school and college years.

His accuser was held to zero standards while he was told to disprove an accusation lacking basic essentials like a specific time, place and witnesses. Had a black teen in the ghetto been hit with equally flimsy charges, the left would have gone into a rage tantrum in support of the accused rapist.

But, unlike Brett, the left wasn’t angry because it had been personally abused. Despite the efforts to pass off paid leftist activists as “sexual assault survivors”, the progressive bilious bile was purely political.

Kavanaugh was angry because his life had been destroyed. The left is angry because it wants power.

Leftist political anger inflicted sadistic torments on Brett Kavanaugh for political reasons. And the media pretends that this political anger is somehow more worthy than that the outrage of its victim.

Obama activists, Senate Dems, Soros social justice flunkies, sleazy lawyers and fake news reporters put a decent man through hell so that they could, as Holder tweeted, “use the rage” in the midterm elections.

The media left demanded to know what right Brett Kavanaugh had to be angry. They mocked his pain, ridiculed his suffering with the venal contempt and snarky hatred that now passes for leftist comedy.

But a better question would be what right does the left have to its endless anger?

Eight years of running the country didn’t leave it any more generous toward its opponents, any less hungry for power, or any less tribal, partisan and furious than it had been in 2007. The left isn’t angry because it cares about rape victims. Not when it’s lining up to buy tickets to Bill and Hillary’s latest tour.

It’s angry because, as Holder tweeted, it wants power.

And it’s willing to destroy every political, civic, cultural, social and moral norm to get it. The left doesn’t believe in norms because it doesn’t believe in any compromise or standard. All it has is its will to power.

Some people have the right to win elections (Hillary Clinton) and others (Donald Trump) don’t. Some justices have the right to be confirmed without campaigns of personal destruction (Democrat nominees like Kagan and Sotomayor) and others (Republican nominees like Bork, Thomas and Kavanaugh) don’t.

And some people have the right to be angry (New York Times and Washington Post readers) and others (Trump supporters and Front Page Magazine readers) don’t. The entitlement of double standards is essential to the leftist quest for power which is about manufacturing perceived inequality in order to administrate mandates of total inequality. Disparate impact justifies affirmative action. If black workers or students underperform, then poor white workers and students must go to the back of the line.

But if replacing the norms of political discourse with livid tantrums is bad, then it’s bad for everyone.

There’s no way to mandate anger as affirmative action. If you insult, deprive and oppress people, they will become angry. And the only thing you can do is get angry right back or outlaw their anger.

The choleric left is working on the latter. But in its conniption fits, it’s settling for the former.

It deprives people of their rights and it responds to their anger with more anger. In its rage, it wipes out every political and social norm it can manage until its opponents are being hounded out of restaurants, fired from their jobs, assaulted on the street, shot at charity baseball games, smeared as rapists, doxed by reporters and staffers, censored on the internet and eavesdropped on by corrupt federal agencies.

There isn’t a legal or political norm that Obama didn’t violate during his time in office. Reporters were spied on. So were Republicans. The IRS and the FBI were used to target political opponents. A man was sent to jail for making a YouTube video. The DOJ was used to go after folks who mocked Obama.

After eight years of political terror, the Democrats have settled into accusing their political opponents of treason and demanding their imprisonment, everything from intimidation to death threats to attempted murder, and trying to destroy a Supreme Court nominee based on the most baseless allegations.

This is what leftists have done to our political norms. And what enrages them about Kavanaugh is not any feigned concern for our political norms, but that our norms survived their tantrums and dirty tricks.

The media claimed that Brett Kavanaugh should not sit on the Supreme Court by reason of his temperament. That’s rich coming from a deranged political movement getting high on its own fury.

"If you're not angry yet, you should be," a riled New York Times editorial yelps. A forum for readers discusses their struggles “expressing rage” and urges them to turn “anger into action”.

The media used to believe that basing national politics around anger was destructively bad. Now it’s been radicalized enough that it celebrates hate, rancor and rage. As long as it’s leftist rage.

Love can be one-sided. But anger rarely is.

When the media riles up leftist fury, it’s also rousing Republican anger. The Kavanaugh hearings are a clear example of how rage-driven abuses by the left lead to a wrathful reaction on the right.

The Democrats and their media allies furiously preach anger, and their rage is tearing apart America.


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1 posted on 10/13/2018 4:20:10 PM PDT by Louis Foxwell
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Democrats haven’t been this angry since Republicans took away their slaves.


2 posted on 10/13/2018 4:22:51 PM PDT by Hugin ("Not one step from his weapons should a traveler take"...Havamal 38)
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3 posted on 10/13/2018 4:23:05 PM PDT by Louis Foxwell (The denial of the authority of God is the central plank of the Progressive movement.)
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He nailed it. Democrats are the party of hate.


4 posted on 10/13/2018 4:26:42 PM PDT by EdnaMode
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The more they rage, the more votes will go to GOP.


5 posted on 10/13/2018 4:37:51 PM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know. how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: Louis Foxwell
When the media riles up leftist fury, it’s also rousing Republican anger. The Kavanaugh hearings are a clear example of how rage-driven abuses by the left lead to a wrathful reaction on the right.

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This Bud's Vote's for YOU (& the country), Brett.

6 posted on 10/13/2018 4:41:13 PM PDT by Qiviut (McCain & Obama's Legacy in two words: DONALD TRUMP!)
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OK someone needs to convince the left their rage would work better if they demonstrated naked. It would give the rest of us a good laugh.


7 posted on 10/13/2018 4:42:03 PM PDT by oldasrocks (rump)
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...... someone needs to convince the left their rage would work better if they demonstrated naked....

I like it.....although the prospect of seeing Maxine Waters nude is kinda scary.

8 posted on 10/13/2018 4:49:55 PM PDT by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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His hatred for America was so visceral and all-consuming that.....
There isn’t a legal or political norm that Obama didn’t violate during his eight years in office.

<><>Reporters were spied on.

<><>So were Republicans.

<><>The IRS and the FBI were used to target political opponents.

<><>A man was sent to jail for making a YouTube video.

<><>The DOJ was used to go after folks who mocked Obama.

9 posted on 10/13/2018 4:53:56 PM PDT by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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“Use the rage,” former Attorney General Eric Holder scream-tweeted. “Get people out to vote and be rid of these people.”

Unhinged democrat thugs...

10 posted on 10/13/2018 5:16:47 PM PDT by GOPJ (Democrats protect MS-13, Open Borders and Criminals. Our side wants JOBS NOT MOBS....)
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To: Louis Foxwell
"We need to stay angry about Kavanaugh," E.J. Dionne Jr. fulminates in the Washington Post. But that’s nothing compared to the New York Times where the old gray lady is frenziedly distempered all the time.

"Get Angry, and Get Involved," an op-ed screeches. "Tears, Fury or Action: How Do You Express Anger?", an op-ed from a few days before shrills. “Fury Is a Political Weapon And Women Need to Wield It,” a third howls. That’s a lot of anger from the megaphone of the privileged wealthy northeastern left.

There hasn’t been this much peevishness on Martha’s Vineyard since they raised the yacht docking fees.

Angry 'elites'... thugs with money...

11 posted on 10/13/2018 5:18:52 PM PDT by GOPJ (Democrats protect MS-13, Open Borders and Criminals. Our side wants JOBS NOT MOBS....)
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The civil war will start when the left figures out a way to prevent the right from voting. That will be the end of the civility.

Harassment in restaurants and other public places is choir practice to these lunatics.


12 posted on 10/13/2018 5:29:53 PM PDT by headstamp 2
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To: Louis Foxwell; GOPJ; EdnaMode; bgill; Liz

13 posted on 10/13/2018 5:50:51 PM PDT by 4Liberty ("The Democrats are the Party of Crime!" - Donald J. Trump)
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To: GOPJ

14 posted on 10/13/2018 5:52:50 PM PDT by 4Liberty ("The Democrats are the Party of Crime!" - Donald J. Trump)
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These would make great posters!


15 posted on 10/13/2018 6:19:03 PM PDT by livius
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Nailed...


16 posted on 10/13/2018 7:09:53 PM PDT by GOPJ (Democrats protect MS-13, Open Borders and Criminals. Our side wants JOBS NOT MOBS....)
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To: Liz
I like it.....although the prospect of seeing Maxine Waters nude is kinda scary.

Kinda? Not even Laz would hit that.

17 posted on 10/14/2018 7:45:37 AM PDT by zeugma (Power without accountability is fertilizer for tyranny.)
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To: Louis Foxwell
After hurricane Michael l happened a liberal friend was freaking out about how it was all caused by Glo bull warming and how scary it all is. I began to see chicken little running around with out his head.

"It was a hurricane," I said. "Hurricanes happen. It's nature." He was basically saying that it was so bad because of Glo bull warming and was in hysteria about how the world is coming to an end because of it.

So sad. Everything is political to these people.

18 posted on 10/14/2018 11:40:39 AM PDT by GOP Poet
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To: Louis Foxwell

Eric Holder scream-tweeted. He Screeted!


19 posted on 10/14/2018 11:43:37 AM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Louis Foxwell

bookmark


20 posted on 10/14/2018 11:44:13 AM PDT by GOP Poet
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