"America Held Hostage"

At the American Spectator.

Things we thought were sacrosanct, the icons of our national identity, now are scorned. We can pretend that this doesn't matter. They're just statues, after all. But they do matter. Not for the pleasure they give the rioters so much as for the pain they inflict on patriots who love America.

Nor has it stopped with the vandalism. We've gone to the next level, with the looting and rioting. In the last month major cities have become unsafe, as rioters work out the logic of what "resistance" means. American stores lost hundreds of millions of dollars, and merchants boarded up their stores for protection. Nothing to see here, folks, said the liberal media, which gaslighted the looting and the boarded-up storefronts, and portrayed the riots as peaceful protests against an illegitimate president.

And that's how to understand what is happening. We're not to object to the riots because the bigger issue is defeating Trump. Nothing much else matters, and if an Antifa mob attacks a federal court building in Portland, don't call this a riot. Say rather that it's a campaign event, led by the good guys.

We're in the middle of a chicken game, where the Left tells us they'll let this go on as long as Trump is president. The liberal media will ignore the riots, the liberal mayors will tell the local police to stand down, the liberal prosecutors will promptly release anyone arrested. Try to defend yourself, and you'll find yourself prosecuted.

The message is: this is what you'll get, America, if you reelect Trump. Elect our guy, and the madness will stop, pronto. A Democratic president would forcefully suppress the riots without a peep from the press. But until then we're held hostage.

Don't fret, though. Conservative, Inc. has an escape plan for itself and no one else. They've got their resumes on file with the Daily Beast, and they've made it plain to their future liberal employers that they are supporting Joe Biden in everything but explicit admission, so they'll be fine.

The rest of you? Eh, you're deplorables. You knew what you were getting into.

posted by Ace at 01:16 PM

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