Heather Mac Donald Writes...

Herewith a few words from the estimable Heather Mac Donald. (via Maggie's Farm) Unsurprisingly, they resonate well with my own thoughts, expressed on previous posts-- to the chagrin of some.

In the great American culture wars, the storming of the United States Capitol will count as a symbolic event, one where the forces of conservatism lost… bigly. 

Th events have unleashed what Mac Donald calls a “frenzy of revenge” against Trump supporters, on the one hand, but on right leaning social media outlets. Surely, the tyrants on the political left have been waiting for an occasion to assert a complete monopoly over American thought. Recent events have given them an opening.

Dare we mention that it would probably not have happened if the results in the Georgia senatorial elections had turned out differently. Regardless of how much responsibility you want to give to Trump for the events of last Wednesday, he bears personal responsibility for having undermined two senatorial campaigns, thereby giving the Senate to the Democrats.

Of course, Mac Donald has made exceptionally clear that the people who want to lynch all Trump supporters were cheering when Black Lives Matter protesters were burning, looting, pillaging across the nation. They were happily supporting those who were tearing down statues of American heroes and insisting that all schools adopt an America-hating curriculum. 

Here are Mac Donald’s conclusions about the events of these past few days:

Trump did not drive the Left into its current apoplexies; the momentum from the previous four decades of academic-generated hatreds was moving to this point regardless of who was in the White House.

It is the case, however, that the Trump demise will give even more fuel to the ongoing desecration of our heritage by the Left, a desecration that will prove more momentous than what occurred on Wednesday.

Now, any cause championed by Trump, whether border enforcement or color-blind public policy, will be discredited in the view of whatever remains of a moderate, non-woke establishment. The brief interregnum from the dominance of the Left provided by the Trump presidency will be followed by a frenzy of revenge on greatness and meritocracy.