First Things First

For John, BLUF:  You need a certain order to have politics.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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From The Washington Free Beacon we have "Power Precedes Politics".

The point of the article is that for there to be politics there needs to be a government, a government with a monopoly on violence.  This is not to say there can be no Second Amendment, but it does mean that those with guns need to be sufficiently satisfied with the Government that they are willing to work with it.  Saying a particular situation needs a political resolution does not make it so.  Every situation first needs an agreed governmental structure, one that the vast majority of the People are willing to tolerate.  Even Progressives were willing to tolerate President George W Bush, otherwise there would have been war (at least armed insurgency) rather than politics.

The author of the article is Mr Matthew Continetti, editor in chief of The Washington Free Beacon. Prior to joining the Beacon, he was opinion editor of The Weekly Standard.  He did author The Persecution of Sarah Palin: How the Elite Media Tried to Bring Down a Rising Star (Sentinel, 2009) (Number 705,602 in Amazon's Kindle Store.  Number one is The Fault in Our Stars.).  he lives in McLean, Virginia, which explains a lot, or perhaps nothing.

Hat tip to the Instapundit.

Regards  —  Cliff