Stormtroopers in Minneapolis

I have said it before, but it certainly bears repeating. Today’s Antifascist antiTrumpers are behaving like Nazi Stormtroopers, like the Brown Shirted street thugs led by Ernst Rohm at the onset of the Hitler years.

What was the Stormtrooper program? It began with public harassment. That involved harassment in the streets, in restaurants, in supermarkets, in department stores… wherever certain people went. Can you say Maxine Waters?

And then, it moved on to beating people on the streets, with clubs or bricks. As happened to one Andy Ngo in Portland, OR. Can you say Ted Wheeler, the mayor of Portland who ordered his police force to stand down in the face of Antifa radicals? No one will ever be prosecuted for these public assaults.

And then, the forces of disorder consistently try to punish any business that is associated with Donald Trump or his supporters. Think about Equinox, Soul Cycle, and, of course, Fox News.  Calls to boycott businesses, to boycott advertisers were integral parts of the Stormtrooper tactics. In this an organization like Media Matters is leading the charge.

And then, anyone who has ever been associated with Trump must be destroyed, or at least never allowed to hold a job. The Mueller investigation set out to destroy people for being on the Trump campaign, to drive them into bankruptcy and to defame their character. As you recall, the war against Brett Kavanaugh was mounted by people who were consumed by a will to destroy, a man, his wife and his daughters. It was beyond ugly. It was Stormtroopers all over again.

You might imagine that our own Stormtroopers have not gotten to the book burning stage of their rebellion. You would be wrong. The principle behind the Nazi book burning was that anything written by a Jewish writer was intrinsically corrupt and unworthy of any consideration. The obverse of this notion is called identity politics. Anything produced by a member of an oppressed class is intrinsically brilliant, and we who do not belong to such classes have no right to judge it. In addition, colleges and universities are hard at work ridding their curricula of the works of privileged white males. And they are starting to fill our museums with works from oppressed peoples, thus taking up space that would better have been used to show great art. (See New York’s new MOMA.)

To recall another horrifying moment in these Nazi tactics, Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin proposed that the best way to cleanse the nation would be to incinerate all Republicans. Pouff. No more Republicans, Problem solved. Perhaps Rubin is not smart enough to understand that another word for a burnt sacrificial offering is Holocaust. But, her appalling ignorance should not be countenanced by a major American newspaper.

Similarly, in a frightening irony, those who call themselves Antifascist or Antifa do not know enough history to understand that they themselves are acting like the Stormtroopers of the Nazi Era.

One would like to think that this is all being produced by a fringe element. Every country has fringe radicals. Why should we not be an exception? In fact, most Stormtrooper tactics are either supported overtly by Democratic Party or at least countenanced by them.

On the Powerline blog John Hinderaker described the scene outside of the Minneapolis Target Center when President Donald Trump spoke two nights ago.

Thousands of lawless, violent Democrats “protested” Trump’s appearance by committing assault, among other crimes. They battled police officers. They attacked Republicans leaving Target Center. They set bonfires and burned patriotic regalia. They carried the flag of the defunct Soviet Union.

The America-hating left on public display. Just make sure that you never say that they are unpatriotic. Of course, these thugs assaulted Trump supporters. Hinderaker continues:

They spat on peaceful Trump supporters. They assaulted an uncounted number of normal citizens leaving the Target Center. They struck a woman across the head with a piece of lumber. They waved a sign that said, “Blue Lives Don’t $king Matter.” The Minneapolis Chief of Police reported, “Objects containing liquid believed to be urine were hurled at some of my officers along with bottles and rocks. Police horses were also assaulted by protesters striking them with sticks.”

From that Hinderaker concluded that these young radicals were acting like Nazis. And also, that they are the face of today’s Democratic Party.

These leftists are identical to the Nazi Brownshirts of the 1930s. But make no mistake–they represent today’s Democratic Party. A sitting Democratic State Representative, Aisha Gomez (DFL-Minneapolis), was seen among the fascists, dressed in black like an Antifa hoodlum. And Minneapolis’s boy Mayor, Jacob Frey, who expressed regret that he could not legally prevent President Trump from visiting Minneapolis, and then tried to do it anyway, issued an order to the Minneapolis Police Department not to use any more chemical irritants on the mob of criminal Democrats. And not a single local Democrat has condemned the violence and disorder that took place last night.

Think about it… not a one….