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If You Care More About Policing The Right Than Fighting The Left, You’re Part Of The Problem
We have created a demoralized right, perpetually apologizing for existing while the left advances unimpeded.
Stop Prioritizing Policing The Right Over Fighting The Left
We have created a demoralized right, perpetually apologizing for existing while the left advances unimpeded.
thefederalist.com
Historically, the American left has operated under an unspoken rule: “no enemies to the left.” This principle, intended to preserve internal unity in the face of political threats, discourages public criticism of even the movement’s most radical elements so long as they advance the left’s overarching goals of acquiring and maintaining political power, winning elections, and discrediting conservatives and Christians in the cultural sphere.
This strategy is visible in the Democratic Party’s response to any scandal that affects their side.
When leaked text messages revealed that Virginia attorney general candidate Jay Jones once wrote that a Republican legislator deserved “two bullets to the head” and that his children should “die in their mother’s arms,” prominent Democrats have continued to offer their full support.
The right, by contrast, has no such instinct for self-preservation.
Conservatives not only face rhetorical and physical attacks from the left, as evidenced by continued violence from Antifa, the assassination of Charlie Kirk, and witnessing the subsequent celebrations of his murder, but also constant moral policing from self-described “classical liberals” and “moderate” Republicans who demand ideological purity within the GOP while opposing many of the policies of MAGA and the America First movement.
While Democrats enthusiastically rally behind candidates like Jay Jones who openly fantasize about political violence, Republicans like JD Vance or conservative commentators like Matt Walsh are treated as if they are complicit in extremism when they refuse to publicly condemn young Republican members of a leaked group chat over a handful of offensive jokes or the controversial opinions of right-wing media personalities like Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens.
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To reject the framing of certain right-wing discourse as “hateful,” is not to excuse genuine examples prejudice against individuals or groups, but to recognize that the moral outrage over fringe elements on the right is not in any way equivalent to the genuine threat emanating from the left.
Equating actual left-wing violence with edgy right-wing group chats creates a false moral equivalency that’s wielded as a political weapon against effective conservatives like JD Vance and Matt Walsh in an effort to discredit legitimate right-wing policies.
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Disaffected liberals like to say, “I didn’t leave the left, the left left me,” while Never-Trump Republicans often espouse, “I didn’t leave the Republican Party, the Republican Party left me.”
Both are two sides of the same liberal coin, attempting to defang a genuine right-wing populist movement while competing to shape the future of the Republican Party and conservatism more broadly once President Trump exits the political scene.
The threat the political right faces is therefore also twofold: from the left without, but also from those doing the work of the left from within.
Commentary:
I'm not totally in agreement with the headline. However....
IMHO, I think that rule applies to public figures/politicians/pundits and media who shape opinion. It should NOT apply to private citizens discussing issues, principles, and politics among themselves.
We should always strive for open and honest discussion, otherwise we're just lying to ourselves.
The problem is that so called fellow republicans like Senators Murkowski and Collins never reach out to moderate Democrats but always cow tows to the radical visible ones, i.e., typical behavior of closet communists, and in their cases feminist communists.
Donald Trump is the one most responsible for depriving our mortal enemy, the Left, of the one thing they value most deeply — power.
