Many Left-leaning critics claim President Trump has ’emboldened’ the Alt Right. While this may be true, the Trump Presidency has certainly emboldened a more radical, dangerous Alt Left.
Whether observed in Madonna threatening to blow up the White House, Maxine Walters inciting mobs to intimidate Trump officials, Kathy Griffin holding up a mask to resemble President Trump’s severed head, the vitriol directed at Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Bill Maher wishing for nationwide recession, ongoing pushes to hunt down and punch ‘nazis’, Joe Biden threatening violence against the President, or even Judge Pirro being shouted down on ‘the View’, in addition to many other uncomfortable scenarios ordinary people experience in their own lives, the last 18 months has witnessed a total collapse in American Left of centre civility.
While I don’t endorse ugly attacks, the consequences of these totalitarian tactics are not divorced from their core purpose. As for one to despise individuals for political reasons is nearly the ultimate display of one’s ideological commitments: to stamp out and punish their political opponents to the fullest extent, wherever possible. This acrimonious environment means life is remarkably difficult for dissidents, as shown by the recent suicide of Charlottesville attendee Andrew Dodson. Moreover, when social and economic life is made unbearable for conservatives/nationalists, and potential newcomers are scared off, this hinders the success of the ideas themselves… Read the rest of this entry »
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