By Eddie Howell
President Donald Trump, who has had a
whirlwind of activity in the first weeks of his presidency, has
promised, among other things, to bring law and order to America.
There is no reason to think he would not make a strong and sincere,
and ultimately successful, effort to do this. But he will probably
have to start with dealing with the so-called protesters who are
against the fact that he is president.
The election is over. Hillary lost and
Trump won. The protests, while legal if peaceful, are to some extent
organized and paid for by left-wing groups, and seem to have no
purpose except to stir up trouble. Those who use these protests as
occasions for violence are criminal thugs who ought to be arrested,
tried, and, if found guilty, imprisoned as appropriate. Ideally, this
should be a local law enforcement responsibility, but when it becomes
a riot, it may require federal intervention via the National Guard or
otherwise. The level of protest violence we have seen is unacceptable
and must be stopped.
Political violence is usually a
practice of the left. When people threaten violence against political
opponents, they commit a crime and should be arrested. When people
threaten the president, they should be arrested. When people
interfere with freedom of speech, beat up others and/or damage or
destroy property, this criminal activity must be punished.
It's difficult not to believe that the
current climate of political violence is largely the work of
left-wing politicians and their hirelings and donors. The tactics we
are seeing are rooted in Alinskyism and Communism. “Students” who
participate in the protests are the products of the ongoing dumbing
down of American education, taught and encouraged by professors who
are themselves dumbed down. The far left has achieved such a hold on
academia that at many liberal schools there is far less emphasis on
academic achievement and far more on political correctness, to the
point that the schools have become bastions of fascist dictatorship
where normal discourse and interaction is prohibited and punished,
and the students of the coddled groups make ridiculous demands that
administrators readily accede to, and probably suggested in the first
place.
The left's solution to the problems
they perceive is to call those who disagree with them racists,
misogynists, homophobes, Islamophobes, etc. Any male and/or white
person is automatically suspect. People holding conservative views
are persecuted and silenced if possible. Students may be required to
sign on to the faculty's views on “diversity” and
multiculturalism.
The practical effect of the left's
control of education, “news” media, and entertainment is that
schools have seen and will see diminishing financial support,
traditional media will continue to collapse, and Hollywood will spend
millions to make more films no one wants to see. “Progressivism”
basically taints and destroys everything it touches.
If the left is OK with political
violence, they can't be overly concerned with terrorist violence
either, unless it hits them directly. The left has little regard for
the Constitution, believing, as liberal judges do, that the
Constitution means whatever the judges say it means, as long as the
left agrees with it.
What we are seeing in the anti-Trump
movement is an irrational response to deliberate left-wing
propagation of mass hysteria, fueled not by political principle,
which could be addressed by reasoned debate, but by the lower aspects
of human nature that seek gratification through destructive and
sadistic acts. None of this destruction can be defended rationally.
Meanwhile, the leftists and globalists don't mind it if it annoys
Donald Trump. But the left should know that it will be effectively
dealt with.
America is not Europe. Most Americans
take their liberty seriously, and they understand it when government
is too busy chasing left-wing ideas and globalism to address the real
concerns of the people. That is why Donald Trump got elected.
