Sometimes I worry about things.
The average American person responds to images, sometimes in a powerful way.
After 911 they all saw images like this. They do not run the ones with the people falling anymore.

Over the years they have been treated to imagery from various terror attacks, all with a terrible sameness.
Now we have the Black Lives Matter anti police riots.

We add the Berkeley Left Wing goons to the photo album

The net effect of all of these is to remove distinctions from the images and condense the people responsible into one mental group.
The Progressives are playing a dangerous game with their riotous reaction to the new administration. They are becoming the bad guys and are attacking America in the imagery of their acts.
In the minds of a large group of law abiding Americans, they are all terrorists. All of those groups are spreading terror to seize power.
The polarization is deepening and the cold civil war is being waged.
This may be the real test of Trump and his team. A Seattle Federal Judge is hopefully not Fort Sumter, but refusal to turn over felons may become one.




This is why I can’t call myself an optimist.
Sooner or later, if the country is to be saved, the power of the left will have to be confronted and broken.
It won’t be pretty.
I was there in 68 when it was just as divided and violent.
Nixon was hated by 30% of the country and the media set out to destroy him. They could not, but he did himself in.
Without Watergate, we beat those SOBs back.
We can do it again, as the media had far more clout then then they do today.
Trump produces jobs and shows he can get the schools working while keeping us out of a serious war, he will own their sorry butts.
He , however, cannot slip up and give them a watergate to hang him with.
True, I think- and I also think the left has failed in this country.
How they get to their final exit is the question.
Do they respect elections results, and go quietly? Do they try and riot to keep power, somehow? Prevent the elected government from functioning?
It seems to me that they plainly will not respect election results, so what next?
More ugly, I think.
That said, it’s only been a few weeks. Events are in the saddle, etc.
“Respecting election results” implies they think they have a dog in the hunt.
I suspect what you are seeing is the fear of a “revolution” – that will leave them without all those nasty things they have brought to the country. This is not just “disagreement”. This is combat, even if the conservative side isn’t “fighting” yet. But it may come to that – clashes between left wing and right wing in a physical way.
Note that the Left already deployed the thuggery in their attempts to shut down Trump rallies. They actually did it in several venues (Chicago being the one that comes immediately to mind). Perhaps this kind of behavior will only call for more violent response. We shall see.
Well, the left is facing a revolution.
Either they stop Trump and make him fail, or they face decades of oblivion.
My guess is that they’d rather burn the country down then let it slip from their grasp- and after each turn of the violence-rachet they congratulate themselves on their daring. Long ago, they gave us a new word- to “bork”- because they actions against Judge Bork were so unprecedented and extreme. Now, it seems they simply intend to filibuster every single Republican Supreme Court nominee, because their base demands nothing less.
At least while they can. For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction- and we see the same dynamic at on the right. That is, the GOP base now has grown hostile to them as well. It seems to me this is a rather new development, as I didn’t get that sense twenty years ago.
Hence, Trump. And having discussed this topic with other Trump supporters, my take is that the leftist thuggery isn’t intimidating people- it’s making us want to see these folks treated like the Russians treated the German sixth army at Stalingrad. Harshly, that is. Violence is their weapon of choice. To borrow from general Sherman- give to it to them.
That’s bad, I think. We need to stop this sort of thing now, before we get have real violence from these scum, with much worse consequences for everyone than a few broken windows. They need to be taught that violence is not the way to settle disputes, before we get to the point when they start shooting conservatives because of the badthink.
We’ll shoot back. That doesn’t seem to have occurred to them, alas.