The craziness, the certifiable lunacy, that swirls about us testifies to the inability of the Left to think through the implications of what it began, peaceably enough, last May in the streets of Minneapolis, which presently envelops the country to one degree or another.
The Left escalates the street violence, not to mention the violence perpetrated on reason and logic by unreasonable, illogical declarations, through the pretense that it's all the fault of the white Republican authorities.
Can't you tell by looking? See any jackboots? See federal agents starting any brawls - the kind of brawls that protesters on the Left have trademarked?
The obligatory mention of George Floyd and Derek Chauvin seems, for TV news purposes, to brush aside objections to mob violence when it really ought to remind us that dealing in a legal system with violence requires the opposite of violence - to wit, orderly processes prescribed by the law, arguments rather than fights.
The Left - back to where we came in - has started a fight it doesn't know how to finish, or maybe doesn't want to finish.
No. 1: Could our mob moment, and the facility of the Democrats in apologizing for bad behavior that seemingly undercuts Trump, end up strengthening the very guy they want to finish off?
How do you shape a unitive program while the memories of violence and disruption and name-calling linger large? How do you pass such a program? Do you, in the mode of street protest, stuff it down people's throats? And then what? And for how long? And with what effects on popular consent and general peace?
The Left escalates the street violence, not to mention the violence perpetrated on reason and logic by unreasonable, illogical declarations, through the pretense that it's all the fault of the white Republican authorities.
Can't you tell by looking? See any jackboots? See federal agents starting any brawls - the kind of brawls that protesters on the Left have trademarked?
The obligatory mention of George Floyd and Derek Chauvin seems, for TV news purposes, to brush aside objections to mob violence when it really ought to remind us that dealing in a legal system with violence requires the opposite of violence - to wit, orderly processes prescribed by the law, arguments rather than fights.
The Left - back to where we came in - has started a fight it doesn't know how to finish, or maybe doesn't want to finish.
No. 1: Could our mob moment, and the facility of the Democrats in apologizing for bad behavior that seemingly undercuts Trump, end up strengthening the very guy they want to finish off?
How do you shape a unitive program while the memories of violence and disruption and name-calling linger large? How do you pass such a program? Do you, in the mode of street protest, stuff it down people's throats? And then what? And for how long? And with what effects on popular consent and general peace?
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