20 January 2017

Left wing violence reinforces Trump’s call for Law-‘n-Order

Left wing thugs — anarchists in ninja black and masks; Black Lives Matter men in black and chains; hooligans who practice politics with fists and clubs — terrorized parts of Washington, D.C., today, blocking access to the inauguration, pelting police with rocks, smashing windows, setting fires, and even tearing from a 10-year-old boy’s hands a sign they disliked. According to the Washington Post, more than 200 have been arrested so far.

Perhaps some Democrats have condemned this behavior, but if they have, their voices were so muted I did not hear them. Instead, I heard silence that I interpret as tacit support for the thugs.

We are descending into the abyss of an authoritarian right wing state in which the opposition is led not by advocates of liberal democracy but by violence prone leftists and anarchists. The age of Trump begins with the dystopia described by Yeats:

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

America has entered a dark age, and there is no light at the end of the tunnel.

Update. While giving an interview, white supremacist/nationalist Richard Spencer was slugged in the face by a thug in a black hoodie. The assailant ran up to Spencer, threw a hard punch, then ran like hell down the street, probably escaping arrest and punishment. In one sense, it couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy, but it was thuggery, assault and battery, and an attack on free speech. In the background, a man held a racist sign reading “White Lives Matter Too Much.”