The riot test: Democrats need
to face the enemy to their left
Tribune Content Agency,
by
Jonah Goldberg
Original Article
Posted By: MissMolly,
9/2/2020 4:30:16 AM
Dems can’t afford to kowtow to the hard left
Last week, a mob of white protesters swarmed a white woman eating dinner in the Adams Morgan neighborhood of Washington, DC. Video of the bullies demanding that patrons raise their fists in solidarity with the movement went viral.
Pro-Trump and right-wing media personalities were quick to insist this verbal assault was emblematic of the entire Democratic Party and the broader American left. Never mind that the victim, Lauren Victor, was a fellow progressive who told a Washington Post reporter, “I’m very much with them. I’ve been marching with them for weeks.”
Reply 1 - Posted by:
seamusm 9/2/2020 6:13:27 AM (No. 528662)
To quote; "Sure, there are some conservatives there — I lived in Adams Morgan for more than a decade" - Hahaha. Jonah Please! You still see yourself as conservative? I am not so convinced. Swallow your pride, Mr. Goldberg. None of us have to like Trump to vote for him. But you are guilty of using your very visible platform to not simply denigrate the President but essentially to campaign for a Biden/Harris/Sanders/AOC socialist destruction of America. Please come home Jonah, and not just criticize the Dems for their obvious illogic but lend your vigor to our need for a restoration of our heritage. Put up with a brash New Yorker and see the bigger picture here. Please.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
jeffkinnh 9/2/2020 6:20:58 AM (No. 528666)
Thanks, Captain Jonah Obvious.
The problem is, the dems don't see the hard Left as the enemy, more like the relative that gets obnoxiously drunk at family gatherings. The fact is that the Left comprises 30% or more of the dem party and more importantly, they are the energy source for the whole party. While the House leadership is playing impeachment games and being made to look like fools by Trump, the Left is doing "things". Things like looting, burning, screaming, intimidating, assaulting and all the good stuff that thugs do. In their little pond, the thugs are impressive. The media loves them because they generate stories that the media can spin into supportive narratives, even though more and more people have no trust of the media.
The thugs are also necessary. If they can be distracted from thuggery, dems need their votes. In truth, that's all the dems really want. After all, the Left is kind of obnoxious. It's not like the dems are actually going to "work with" the thugs. Nor are the dems actually going to do anything for the Left. If they actually addressed the Left's issues, where would they get the angry mobs to show the media during the next election.
There is a cold calculation and manipulativeness going on here. The Left's issues are largely superlative hyperbole. The dems encourage and support the angst and anger of the Left to fuel support for the party. However, they have no intention to address this phantasm of the Left because it is mostly unsubstantiated and they want it available for reuse during the next election.
For the dems to repudiate the Left would be like cutting off their own legs. Without the Left, the dems couldn't GO anywhere.
"Biden has unequivocally condemned rioting, vigilantism and street violence."
Is THAT what Joe said? Does Joe KNOW what he said because we don't? They programmed him with a teleprompter and he still flubbed his lines. Who knows what Joe believes or if he believes in anything beyond making himself look good.
And by the way Jonah, the dems aren't listening to your advice. Neither are most Republicans.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Condor44 9/2/2020 6:35:41 AM (No. 528674)
Lauren Victor is an idiot! She will be among the first to be put up against the wall should the left win.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
udanja99 9/2/2020 7:25:28 AM (No. 528713)
I won’t click on a Jonah article but I will note for him that his headline is incorrect. There is no enemy to the left of the demonrats. They are that enemy. Example #1 - AOC.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Clinger 9/2/2020 8:24:11 AM (No. 528770)
The concept of being "left" of the current dominant force in the "democrat" party triggered this quote:
"If I held you any closer I would be on the other side of you."........Groucho Marx
There is no left of the democrat party leadership, they are communists. Where "lefter" is there to go?
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Laotzu 9/2/2020 9:48:23 AM (No. 528857)
So very, very sad to see such a talented witness to history turn Stalinist propagandist for Statists.
Fallacy #1 The problem is intensified by the tendency of the hyper-politically engaged left and right to listen only to people in their own echo chamber and to mistake Twitter outrage for sentiment on the ground.
You hear this regularly from the Left -- we all just listen to news that only supports our position. I ask you: when 95% of the news is Democrat propoganda, how is it even possible for me as a conservative to not be exposed to what the opposition is saying daily? Every Conservative I know can cite the Democrat Party Line chapter and verse. The Democrats, on the other hand, spout nothing but shallow, highly distorted, libelous recitations of Conservatives beliefs. I call a big BS on the claim that both sides are ignorant of the other's points. It is entirely unilateral and total on the part of the Democrats.
Fallacy #2: To his credit, Biden has unequivocally condemned rioting, vigilantism and street violence.
Can you believe that Jonah would spout lies like this and think we would believe it? Biden's own Veep raised money to bail out arsonists, and says the violence must continue after the election. What's missing from the piece: a single example of Joe Biden condemning the riots. It's just stated as true.
What complete and utter LIES on Jonah's part. For what reason? To convince whom? Just to keep your designated seat at dinner parties? Has the deep state already blackmailed you?
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The political sands are running out for "traditional" Democrats. They stitched together their leftist coalition of aggrieved parties and loosed the monster. They poured money into these organizers, provided them political cover, and legitimized their violence. And now the monster is coming back to the castle. The UNIPARTY shut them out of the presidential race with Biden. They bought four more years of grooming and building a replacement cadre for their profiteering gerontocracy. (Seems they failed in Massachusetts.)
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Sunhan65 9/2/2020 10:08:04 AM (No. 528883)
Wow. What #7 said.
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I still find it hard to beieve that the author of a brilliant book like "Liberal Fascism" is actively promoting Leftist Fascism in the most important presidential election of our lifetimes.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
LesUNo 9/2/2020 10:52:59 AM (No. 528936)
Kudos to fellow L-dotters. You said it all and eloquently.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
DVC 9/2/2020 11:00:22 AM (No. 528946)
There is nobody to the left of the Dem party now. Can't get farther left than where Senile Joe and Kamel-face are.
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