Predictably, the riotous events in Washington have sent the left-media into a paroxysm of screeching and pearl-clutching. Never mind that, just a few short months ago, large fires lit by Democrat supporters were raging in Washington. Also ignore that senior Democrats urged on the rioters, including the incoming vice-president and the Speaker. And, whatever you do, don’t mention that the left-media literally stood in front of burning buildings and mobs of looters and called it “peaceful protests”.
Of course, if you rely on the leftist mainstream media you will get a decidedly one-eyed account of what has been happening. The message of the left and their media sycophants has always been the same: ‘Trump and his supporters are evil, dangerous fascists who are a threat to democracy. This protest simply proves that they are out of control, and we must do all we can to make sure they never again are given any power or influence in American political life.’
Needless to say I reject that radical spin.
The full facts of what occurred in Washington are yet to be established, with claims and counter-claims being thrown around. For instance, many demonstrators claim that it was provocateurs from the left who instigated and perpetrated the worst of the violence. It might also be pointed out that the Capitol is a public building, paid for by American citizens, which demonstrators may perfectly legitimately occupy.
Nonetheless, violence is not acceptable.
But therein lies the staggering hypocrisy of the left.
For four years now the very same folks denouncing what has just happened in Washington have been promoting and excusing and encouraging violent protests over the election results of 2016. Cities have been burning all around the nation, yet the media pretended it was not happening. The lamestream media is of course up to its ears in this hypocrisy, as are far too many others.
But if the left and their media camp-followers are odious enough, the establishment right are worse.
Never-Trumpers have a lot to answer for. Indeed, they may even have blood on their hands[…]
Any claims by them that they did not want the Dems to get in ring hollow. There were only ever two real choices: these Trump haters with a bad case of Trump Derangement Syndrome knew full well that if they were going to oppose him in every way possible, there could only be one outcome: a win for the Democrats. There never was some third option. It was Trump or the radical left in charge for the next four years – end of story.
This was, and remains, the real story of Trumpism: a grassroots revolt by patriotic Americans against a two-party system that is a mere fig-leaf for an entrenched ruling class. For decades, there has been no real contest of ideas in Washington, merely a show of rearranging the chairs every eight years or so. Barack Obama was George W. Bush on steroids. Bush, in turn, was a continuation of Clintonism.
Our faux right is used to playing a theatric oppositional role. They have long been the Washington Generals to the left’s Harlem Globetrotters—“beautiful losers,” in Francis’s phrase. The electoral battles are a distraction to the governmental managers—that cadre of the permanent bureaucracy that is called the Deep State—who are eager to drop the pretense of representative government and get back to managing their subjects.
That is what government in the U.S. – and in most of the West – has descended into. A sham democracy that is in fact the conceit of a ruling class that their born-to-rule role is to “manage” a proletariat who are simply not fit to govern themselves. Indeed, too dangerous to be allowed to do so.
The therapeutic managerial ideology is based on the idea that the American people, especially the Middle Americans of red states, need to have their mentality reformed. The therapists must root out any last vestige of ethnic preference or resistance to foreign immigration, which, in the case of those of European ancestry, is to be considered racism. This group of social inferiors also need to abandon any commitment to Christian morality[…]and they need to drop any resistance to the globalist neoliberal and neoconservative consensus, which sends their jobs overseas and their sons to die in pointless wars abroad.
This is what the Trump presidency was about – something the establishment right has completely failed to grasp for five years. As Charles Murray had it put to him, “You don’t get it: Trump is our murder weapon”.
The Trumpist revolt against the “Swamp” and the “Deep State” were no mere slogans. A mandarin class has taken it upon itself to rule – not govern – and it has appropriated every institution of public democracy.
This fight is not over—because the real right has not yet begun to fight. If there is to be a single aim for a post-Trump right, it should be to contest the present managerial class’s cultural influence over our society. We must make our own march through the institutions of government and education.
Spectator Australia
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