Congress—Smug, But Ignorant

For John, BLUF:  Our ignorance is dangerous.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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Congress Passes Measure Challenging Trump to Denounce Hate Groups

This is from The Old Gray Lady, and reporter Glenn Thrush, 12 September 2017. The lede:

The House and Senate have unanimously passed a joint resolution urging President Trump to denounce racist and anti-Semitic hate groups, sending a blunt message of dissatisfaction with the president’s initial, equivocal response to the white nationalist violence in Charlottesville, Va., last month.

I will grant you the President was not particularly articulate after the demonstrations in Charlottesville, Virginia.  On the other hand, he was not wrong to suggest that the Antifa protestors were just as bad as the folks they were protesting, the Klan, the Neo-Nazis, the White Supremacists.  Relax for a moment and remember that the Antifa come from the line of Stalin and his ilk.

Sure, there is Prime Minister Winston Churchill's famous line "If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favorable reference to the devil in the House of Commons", referring to the German invasion of the Soviet Union, but the point was that Germany was the near threat and the Soviet Union the far threat.

Let us not be making any pacts with the Stalinists.  If Mars invades, then yes.  But, not before.  Remember, these are the people who thought the Weimar Republic should be destroyed, which, in the event, resulted in the rise of Adoph Hitler and his National Socialist Party.

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Stephen Green, posting this item at the InstaPundit, said:

This isn’t the GOP majority I was hoping for, but it is the one I’ve come to expect.

Hat tip to the InstaPundit.

Regards  —  Cliff