In June, the New York Times called the post-Floyd protests the largest social-justice redress in US history, as if 15 million people (5%) in the streets meant more than 310 million watching on TV. The real story was behind the lawful protests. Small angry mobs (Antifa and Black Bloc) advanced barbarism (arson, assault, looting, razing public buildings, and toppling historic monuments) in America’s great cities.
Local police estimated 1,000 rioters in Chicago and Kenosha, 3,000 in Portland, and 5,000 in Minneapolis, New York and Seattle. 20,000 thugs does not a movement make, but they act for a larger group of mad-liberal academics, journalists and politicians, who regard European constructs as generally racist. Hence, they easily ignore (1) academic, press and religious freedom, (2) national law and order, (3) property rights, and (4) redress through peaceable assembly.
Our universities are now home to an intellectual-yet-idiotic mob that, if successful, will guide America to mediocrity. The liberal educators (honest, open and tolerant) of my youth have been replaced by the illiberal indoctrinators (intellectual bullies) who taught my children. These kooks don’t believe US prosperity was born of American exceptionalism. They think it’s the result of European greed, genocide and racism, leaving whites atop the social order.
This view was echoed in 2012, when Barack Obama dismissed America’s pioneer roots (hard work and know-how) to claim success resulted from good government. Later, in 2019, the Times 1619 Project dismissed white innovators and theorized all American wealth derived from slavery. This year, the Smithsonian claimed qualities such as “self-reliance, respect for authority, politeness and the nuclear family” are attributes of “whiteness” or maybe Japan (they weren’t sure).
Conservatives know all too well an angry media mob abandoned truth and justice to turn pro-civilization voices into “enemies of the state.” The cops are bad, but Antifa is not burning and looting. Nope, they are engaged in “mostly peaceful protests.” Black liberals on CNN and MSNBC insisted the black speakers at the RNC were “props” or “Uncle Toms.” And, when Times editors Bari Weiss and James Bennet resigned, they blamed the “illiberal environment” and “bullying” by co-workers (AKA cancel culture).
Atop this plunge into barbarism are mad-liberal politicians, whose comments lend legitimacy to Antifa and Black Bloc, and whose constraints on police empower rioters. Big-city Democrats ignore police chiefs and refuse federal assistance in an election year – and who suffers? Law-abiding businesses and tax-paying citizens, who are filing insurance claims and losing coverage.
Antifa and Black Bloc have crusader psyches that justify arson and looting as a means to an end. In 1838, Abraham Lincoln warned America such crusaders ultimately alienate law-abiding citizens, who grow “disgusted with a government that offers no protection.” And, just like the Holy Crusades (by Saladin) and Bush regime-changers (by the Taliban), today’s “crusaders” will probably fold once punched in the mouth.
Get a load of Matthew Banta (pictured at top of article on left), the 23-year-old “Commander Red” of Antifa, who was on his way to “peacefully protest” when arrested in Green Bay with a flamethrower and smoke grenades. According to the arresting officer, Banta folded into the fetal position and began crying upon capture. At some point, liberals must compare Banta to Daniel Cameron (pictured at top of article on right).
Banta is a white beta male, who has done nothing with his life but whine about his country and build a rap sheet. Cameron, whose speech wowed the RNC, is the first African-American to be elected attorney general in Kentucky. Ask yourself, who’s the better role model? To whom would you entrust your wallet? Who will uphold the Constitution or be a good neighbor? Hint: “Banta” is the wrong answer, because he’s a barbarian with a flamethrower.