Authored by Victor Davis Hanson via RealClearPolitics.com,
The old 2020 election was supposed to be about many familiar issues. It is not any more.
Up until now, the candidates themselves would supposedly be the story in November. The left had cited Trump’s tweets and erratic firings as windows into his dark soul.
The right had replied that an addled and befuddled Joe Biden was not really a candidate at all.
Instead he was a mere facsimile who would have to be carried to the Election Day on the shoulders of the Democratic party, only shortly to fade away.
Then a radical vice president soon could implement a hard-left agenda by succession what she could not through election.
Issues themselves are no longer likely to decide the election either. Not long ago progressives argued that the miracle Trump economy was in shambles, done in by plague, quarantine and riot.
They thundered that it was what you would expect from Trump’s innate chaos — a mess that would have to be invented if it had not existed.
The right had countered that deregulation, energy development, tax reform and reindustrialization that made America Great would make American Great — Again.
For all of 2019 and 2020, Democrats had claimed that a calm abroad would return with a Biden win. They talked of reestablishing the influence of postwar American-led diplomacy, soft power, traditional alliances, transnational organizations and the United Nations.
Trump Republicans believed all that was more the problem, not the solution. They argued that America’s relationships with NATO, China and the European Union were now at least founded on reality, not dangerous fantasies and stale bromides.
Trump opponents saw the November election as a return to Washington normality: no more fights with the press, no more paranoia of a deep state, no more dissident generals, canned FBI leaders or exasperated CIA officials.
Trump’s base instead had seen the November election as the last chance to drain the federal swamp of careerists, apparatchiks, corporate flunkies and various grifters.
These unelected and unaccountable bureaucrats, lobbyists and revolving-door functionaries over the prior decades had hacked at the Bill of Rights, stagnated the economy, mired the nation in endless winless wars and mortgaged the country to China.
But that conundrum is ancient history now.
For nearly a month, the nation has been consumed by massive protests and chronic riots, looting and arson.
The catalyst for the demonstrations — the violent and wrongful death of African American George Floyd while in the custody of Minneapolis police — is itself fading from connections with the ensuing upheavals.
Statues are toppled. Names are abruptly changed. Careers cancelled.
Police are both reviled — and walking off the job. Retired generals are no longer seen as conservative traditionalists but radicals themselves who dare to take on the commander-in-chief.
Downtown Seattle is no longer in the control of the city government.
The internet is aflame with self-appointed sleuths. They scour hours of video, and millions of words, searching for an indiscreet past remark — as fodder to take out a political opponent, a rival for a job or a personal enemy.
The people’s energy, tranquilized by a two-month national quarantine and terror of the coronavirus, has suddenly exploded in both massive protests and silent seething at the lawlessness.
The result is that for good or evil, the 2020 election is no longer really about Biden and Trump, Democratic or Republican policies, or progressive and conservative agendas.
No, it is now about America as it has been before May 2020 — always flawed, but constantly improving, and not perfect but far better than the alternatives — and what has now followed.
Much of the country believes that America is racist, cruel and incapable of self-correction of its so-called original sins — without a radical erasure of much of its past history, traditions and customs.
It sees occasional violence as a necessary stimulant of long overdue change. It argues that the American founding focus on liberty and freedom as increasingly selfish and incompatible with social justice and equality.
Racism, the protesting left says, is in the American DNA. It finally requires massive cutting, chemotherapy and radiation — treatment that deservedly will sicken and may even kill the host.
The other half of the country will vote to preserve what is under attack. They feel that the dreamy world of the demonstrators and rioters is an Orwellian vision far worse than the present reality that they are protesting.
America in their view is the world’s only large, successful multiracial democracy. It is the dream destination of the world’s immigrants — precisely because its ancient institutions adapt and change for the better, but only if they are preserved and allowed to work.
The angry and the demonstrating are loud and visible; their opponents are angry and quiet.
The election will reveal not just who is more numerous — but sadly also who is the angriest.
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The communist will try to steal the election with mail-in ballots….
Free shit voters outnumber normal folks minimum 3:1.
They don’t need to steal anything.
VDH is a really smart guy and sums up the political situation here in the United Stupid States of America with precision; resentment and hate are going to be the main issues of the general election in November. If they are even held at all, that is.
A summer of BLM-Maoist-Trotskyite-Anarachist mayhem and murder will be its own visual campaign for the electorate to watch and decide. Will it be Law and Order or Chaos? A pretty easy choice if you ask Auntie, but be advised the Lumpen is a brain dead monster that would sell its soul to the Devil for a larger Tel A(vi)vision.
Like it or not, the only two viable solutions to the current Bolshevik incited Burn, Loot and Murder mayhem are either the Left and the Right separate on agreeable terms or fight a bloody war to decide which ideology will rule the land. Reconciliation is no longer possible. The Bolsheviks have made that clear.
Civil War 2 HAS BEGUN…and There’s ONLY ONE WAY to Stop It
by John Mark / June 27
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eA5-1iZsE_4
Do you truly think if an amicable split was agreed to it would last?
I don’t, because activist bullies who want you DEAD never know when to quit and they don’t negotiate deals. People who only want to live their lives and get along will always be harassed until they’re provoked into a conflict or cowed.
It’s what the bullies want. When a reaction does occur the circumstances of who was truly to blame won’t be resolved until the fight’s finished.
E.D ott, Sadly it’s looking like a choice between Fascism or Communism.
The separation is physical and by physical, the speaker means countries and if you think the fag infested Left would attempt to invade a Right wing nation once established, you really are a special kind of stupid. Do try to keep up.
The fag invested left is just a tool for the marxist behind them.
Flea’s spot on IMHO. We either Balkanize or we fight it out, whoever wins will then have to rule with a tyrannical iron fist to keep the losers under control. The MSM and public education has brainwashed the vast majority of individuals 30 – 35 years of age into believing Marxism is the answer.
Blah, blah, blah.
There hasn’t been a Presidential contest in ages.
Any talk of “election” or “contest” or “win” is a waste of time.
The 2020 election, like every other election over the last 100 years, is about what particular flavor of judaism you prefer to suffer under.
The Leftists and mohammedans view negotiations and agreements as an opportunity toprepare for the next battle in the war. The sooner we realize this the better. Don’t call me immoral or evil. John Mark you are a libertarian or anarchist fool.
Stopped reading at the point this author chose to state that, “Much of the country believes that America is racist, cruel and incapable of self-correction”. A small minority believes that. The minority that is marxist in nature and bent on the destruction of western civilization.