A Party of Stalkers

A Party of Stalkers​

https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/10/democrats-mob-tactics-violence/
James Hodgkinson seems to have slipped down the memory hole.
Hodgkinson was the left-wing activist who accused Donald Trump and Mike Pence of treason and — “fueled by rage against Republican legislators,” as the Virginia attorney general put it — attempted to massacre a group of Republican congressmen practicing for a baseball game. He shot Representative Steve Scalise, along with a Capitol Police officer and two others, and very likely would have murdered a goodly chunk of the GOP caucus if not for the police assigned to protect Scalise, the majority whip. Senator Rand Paul was there, too, and escaped injury — that time: A few months later, he was attacked while mowing his lawn, suffering six broken ribs. The man who attacked him, Rene Boucher, is a left-wing Chomskyite social-media rage-artist who wrote about his desire to see someone “fry Trump’s gonads.” In 2013, a gunman attacked the conservative Family Research Council. In 2016, Micah Xavier Johnson massacred police officers in Dallas. Before that, five men associated with the Occupy movement made plans to blow up a bridge in Ohio.... We have a memory, a faint one, of Democrats lecturing Republicans about their “tone” not so long ago, something about Sarah Palin and metaphorical crosshairs.... We are a long way from arguing about graphic design.
The Democrats in 2018 seem to have taken the wrong lesson from Hodgkinson and the rest: They have embraced stalking and terror as political tactics. The so-called Antifa have firebombed college campuses and committed political violence in order to silence dissenting speakers and to bully students into political conformity; Democrats have taken up stalking with gusto, recently chasing Ted Cruz and his wife out of a restaurant, while Representative Dave Brat recently discovered stalkers photographing his cars and property... The first, best, and most effective remedy for this kind of undemocratic mob behavior is the ballot box. Republicans are right to make an issue of Democratic mob attacks in the upcoming elections, and voters ought to take it into account. The Democrats have shown themselves incapable of responsible political action, and incapable of responsible government, too.


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These mobs are obviously racists. There are few if any blacks among them.
Violence offers the left a two-fer, if you can bully your opponents into giving up, you win. If your opponent retaliates, you claim victimhood. In the extreme, they become martyred to the cause.... A tactic perfected by Palestinian mobs not that long ago.
In some ways the media apologists concern me even more than the actual rioters. I'm so tired of hearing..... but Charlottesville! Nobody in the mainstream media called that incident a mere "protest by angry voters". That incident was not under reported either. I consider myself pretty well informed when it comes to current events, I had no idea about the attack on Rand Paul till recently. Neither did I hear anything about the baseball shooter allegedly shouting "this is for healthcare!" The Fifth Columnist Media have made it abundantly clear what type of mob they prefer. What they should be doing is condemning all of it equally or publicly declare what anyone can now see, journalists are not unbiased observers and anything they report should be taken with a large grain of salt.