As President Joe Biden’s polls stagnate and the midterms approach, we are now serially treated to yet another progressive melodrama about the dangers of a supposed impending radical right-wing violent takeover.
This time, the alleged threat is a Neanderthal desire for a “civil war.”
The FBI raid on former President Donald Trump’s Florida home, the dubious rationale for such a historic swoop, and the popular pushback at the FBI and Department of Justice from roughly half the country have further fueled these giddy “civil war” conjectures.
Recently “presidential historian” Michael Beschloss speculated about the parameters of such an envisioned “civil war.”
Beschloss is an ironic source. He had just days before tweeted about the executions Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. They were the ones who gave U.S. nuclear secrets in the 1950s to the Soviet Union. This was in connection to the FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago.
That was a lunatic insinuation that Trump might justly suffer the same lethal fate due to his supposed mishandling of “nuclear secrets.” Unhinged former CIA Director Michael Hayden picked up on Beschloss’ death-penalty prompt, adding that it “sounds about right.”
Hayden had gained recent notoriety for comparing Trump’s continuance of the Obama administration’s border detention facilities to Hitler’s death camps. And he had assured the public that Hunter Biden’s lost and incriminating laptop was likely “Russian disinformation.”
So, like the earlier “Russian collusion” hoax, and the Jan. 6 “insurrection,” the supposed right-wing inspired “civil war” is the latest shrill warning from the left about how “democracy dies in darkness” and the impending end of progressive control of Congress in a few months.
On cue, Hollywood now joins the “civil war” bandwagon. It has released a few bad movies of grade-C quality. They focus on deranged white “insurrectionists” who seek to take over the United States in hopes of driving out or killing off various “marginalized” peoples.
Pentagon grandees promise to learn about “white rage” in the military and to root it out. They don’t offer any data to show that white males have more racial or ethnic chauvinisms then any other demographic.
When we do hear of an insurrectionary plan—to kidnap the Michigan governor—we discover a concocted mess. Twelve FBI informants outnumbered the supposed four “conspirators.” And two of them were acquitted by a jury and the other two so far found not guilty due to a mistrial.
The insurrectionary rightwing movement is frequently cited as a proof point by the buffoonish Jan. 6 Capitol riot. However, the one-day riotous embarrassment did not uncover any armed revolutionaries or plots for overthrowing the government.
What it did do was give the left an excuse to weaponize the nation’s capital with barbed wire and thousands of federal troops, in the greatest militarization of Washington, D.C., since the Civil War.
Antifa and BLM were not just one-day thugs. They organized a series devastation and deadly riots throughout the country for more that four months during the summer of 2020. Their work resulted in more than 35 deaths, $2 billion worth of property damage, and hundreds of injuries to police officers.
Such violent protesters torched the iconic St. John’s Episcopal Church and attempted to fight their way into the White House grounds. The Secret Service was forced to evacuate the president of United States to a secure bunker by their violent agenda.
The New York Times gleefully applauded the rioting near the White House grounds with the snarky headline “Trump Shrinks Back.”
Talk of secession is mainly coming from the left and not the right. In fact, there is a parlor game among elites at venues like The Nation and The New Republic that depicts secession from the United States. Blue-staters boast that secession would remove them from the red-state conservative population.
Over the past five years, it was the left who talked openly of tearing apart the American system of governance—from packing the Supreme Court and junking the Electoral College to ending the ancient filibuster and nullifying immigration law.
Time essayist Molly Ball in early 2021 gushed about a brilliant “conspiracy” of wealthy tech lords, Democratic Party activists, and Joe Biden operators.
Ball claimed that they had systematically spent hundreds of millions of black money on changing voting laws and taking over the government registrars’ roles in key precincts.
Revolutionary were the new progressive precedents of impeaching the president twice, trying him as an individual citizen, banning minority congressional representatives from House Committee memberships, and dismantling the State of the Union speech on national television.
Decrying the weaponization and scandals of the once-professional FBI is not insurrectionary. Nor is being appalled at the FBI raiding a former president’s and possible presidential candidate’s home, when historically disputes over presidential papers were the business of lawyers, not armed agents.
Historical overreach is not to be criticized, but insurrectionary. And those who warn most of some mythical “civil war” are those most likely to incite one.
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