You may have seen in the news recently the story of a North Dakota man, Shannon Brandt, 41, who killed Cayler Ellingson. 18, on Sunday in the city of McHenry, ND. Brandt, who has admitted to being drunk at the time, ran down Ellingson with his SUV because, in Brandt’s words, Ellingson was part of a Republican “extremist group.” Such physical violence and intimidation are no surprise to Paul Craig Roberts, who writes at the Institute for Political Economy, that Democrats’ efforts threaten “to move beyond verbal violence to physical violence.” He calls out the “Democrats’ armed militias–Antifa and Black Lives Matter–are an intimidating force which is likely to make it difficult for Republicans to recruit political candidates to contest elections in blue states.” He writes (abridged):
I discussed yesterday the propaganda assault on America and white Americans from universities and schools, Woke Democrats, leftwing intellectuals, and media that is destroying our country and civilization. Note that debate about this serious issue is not part of the November election. The attack on America is an inside job and this fact is as much ignored as the established fact that 9/11 was an inside job.
For most candidates the election is about campaign funding, the idea being that who raises the most money can pay for the most accusations against the opponent. Most campaigns are ad hominem and devoid of serious issues. The most successful slanderer wins.
Trump does better than this and does manage to call attention to the wide open border with Mexico that is flooding America with immigrant-invaders. Ron Johnson, Republican US Senator from Wisconsin, does even better. He notes the death of civilized politics when he speaks of how policy debates have been crowded out by vitriolic attacks, such as Biden’s, on Republicans and assaults by Woke Democrats on US Supreme Court Justices in restaurants if they dare to dine out. Political violence against President Trump and his supporters masquerading as “accountability” and introduced by the leftwing Democrats and their media allies with Russiagate six years ago and sharpened with two illegitimate impeachment attempts, “January 6 Insurrection,” and now “Documentsgate,” threatens to move beyond verbal violence to physical violence. We are reaching the point where the Democrats’ armed militias–Antifa and Black Lives Matter–are an intimidating force which is likely to make it difficult for Republicans to recruit political candidates to contest elections in blue states.
Paul Craig Roberts, a former Assistant Secretary of the US Treasury and former associate editor of the Wall Street Journal, has been reporting shocking cases of prosecutorial abuse for two decades. A new edition of his book, The Tyranny of Good Intentions, co-authored with Lawrence Stratton, a documented account of how americans lost the protection of law, has been released by Random House.
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