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Totalitarian Takeover in Progress: The Left’s Coup Against America, by Vasko Kohlmayer

One of the left’s favorite tactics is to accuse its opposition of doing what it in fact is doing. From Vasko Kohlmayer at lewrockwell.com:

The American Left has spent the better part of last year laying waste to America. Beginning in May of 2020, they unleashed and conducted the most extensive and violent riots in this nation’s history.

In the process, they wrecked dozens of American cities and caused billions of dollars in damage. The insurance industry declared these Democrat sponsored riots a “catastrophe” across several states.

According to data from Princeton University, forty-eight of America’s fifty largest cities were hit by violence from Black Lives Matter demonstrations.

The rioting became so severe and extensive that over 200 hundred cities had to declare curfew.

Within a month of the riots’ onset 14,000 people have been arrested.

n the first two weeks of the protests in Minneapolis alone the rioters caused “upwards of $500 million in property damage to 1,500 locations.”

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Where Did the New Mad Left Come From? by Victor Davis Hanson

Utopianism at the point of a gun (or spear) is one of humanity’s oldest psychoses. From Victor Davis Hanson at nationalreview.com:

A demonstrator holds a sign during events marking Juneteenth in New York City City, June 19, 2020. (Brendan Mcdermid/Reuters)

Utopianism is age-old, as are its tragic consequences — and we haven’t seen the worst yet.

Bouts of extreme leftism are frequent in history. Plato’s Apology, Edmund Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France, and Vladimir Lenin’s What Is to Be Done? — all offer us insight into the mind and methods of the hard Left.

America has experienced surges of mainstream anarchism, socialism, and communism, most profoundly during the late 19th century, amid the Great Depression, during the Soviet-American alliance of World War II and afterward, and in the 1960s. But rarely have these radical movements openly and without apologies made such inroads into and inside government and the establishment as during the past decade.

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