Playing Nice

For John, BLUF:  Didn't we learn to play nice in Kindergarten?  Doesn't the history of American politics teach us that the other side eventually gains the upper hand, only to then relinquish it.  Bipartisanship means working together to get the business of America done.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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Washington Post columnist warns of need to 'burn down the Republican Party' to wipe out Trump supporters

From Fox News, by Nick Givas, 26 August 2019.

Here is the lede plus three:

Washington Post opinion writer Jennifer Rubin pushed for Americans to work together to "burn down the Republican party" in the hopes of extinguishing any trace of the enthusiasm for President Trump.

Rubin appeared on MSNBC's "AM Joy" Sunday and said that not only does Trump have to lose in 2020, but there must be a purging of "survivors" who still support the commander-in-chief.

"It's not only that Trump has to lose, but that all his enablers have to lose," she said. "We have to collectively, in essence, burn down the Republican Party."

"We have to level them because if there are survivors -- if there are people who weather this storm, they will do it again."

I don't think it is helpful for the body politic to make all discussions life or death.  Maybe we need to turn down the rhetoric a tad.  Maybe not talk in terms of "burning down" the opposition.

Hat tip to the InstaPundit.

Regards  —  Cliff

For John, BLUF:  The Southern Poverty Law Center is a bully.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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SPLC Pays $3.3 Million Settlement to Counter-Extremism Group It Called ‘Anti-Muslim’

Acronym Alert:  SPLC stands for Southern Poverty Law Center.

From The Daily Beast, today, 18 June 2018.

It is just one paragraph and a link. The SPLC seems to have an agenda and seems to lack nuance.

Hat tip to the InstaPundit.

Regards  —  Cliff

Wash Post Sees Antifa Problem

For John, BLUF:  Even The Wash Post sees the problem.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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Yes, antifa is the moral equivalent of neo-Nazis

An Opinion Piece by OpEd Writer Marc A. Thiessen, 30 August 2017, in The Wash Post.

Here is the lede plus one.  It is a more interesting story if you read the second paragraph as well as the first.

Last weekend in Berkeley, Calif., a group of neo-communist antifa — “anti-fascist” — thugs attacked peaceful protesters at a “No to Marxism in America” rally, wielding sticks and pepper spray, and beating people with homemade shields that read (I kid you not) “No Hate.”  The Post reports how one peaceful protester “was attacked by five black-clad antifa members, each windmilling kicks and punches into a man desperately trying to protect himself.”  Members of the Berkeley College Republicans were then stalked by antifa goons who followed them to a gas station and demanded they “get the [expletive] out” of their car, warning, “We are real hungry for supremacists and there is more of us.”

The organizer of the anti-Marxism protest is not a white supremacist.  Amber Cummings is a self-described “transsexual female who embraces diversity” and had announced on Facebook that “any racist groups like the KKK [and] Neo Nazis . . . are not welcome.”  The protest was needed, Cummings said, because “Berkeley is a ground zero for the Marxist Movement.”

The Democrats need to reject the Antifa extremism or die in the polling booths.

Hat tip to the Memeorandum.

Regards  —  Cliff

Small Differences

For John, BLUF:  I am blaming bad potty training.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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From Facebook and Poster Brendan O'Neill, early this morning, Monday, 14 August 2017.

THE NARCISSISM OF SMALL DIFFERENCES

The InstaPundit quotes this part:

It’s becoming so clear now why the war of words between SJWs and the new white nationalists is so intense. It isn’t because they have huge ideological differences — it's because they have so much in common.

It sort of reminds me of the quip attributed variously to Samnual Johnson or Henry Kissinger:

Academic Politics Are So Vicious Because the Stakes Are So Small

Hat tip to the InstaPundit.

Regards  —  Cliff