The Left is acting on tyrannical impulses, and Trump is the reagent that is making it justifiable in the minds of half of our citizens. Once this genie is fully out of the lamp, it may be impossible to put it back.
This is how countries move, inch by inch, into terrible conditions. Because these impulses, these sinful tendencies, crouch at the door to every human heart. We saw it with Trump, we saw it accelerate under Covid, and we likely have not seen its worst manifestation.
I agree particularly with this last part. If you’ve never been to countries that are in the midst of civil war, and have “othered” entire populations that also inhabit the same country and in doing so, justify unimaginable atrocities, then you can’t really conceptualize just how bad it can get.
Thankfully I didn’t have to witness the genocide in Rwanda but I was in Charles Taylor’s Liberia and Milosevic’s territory in Eastern Europe in the mid 90s and can tell you that ithe things I bore witness to left an indelible mark on my soul.
Before 2020 if you told any American that entire chunks of a city, including municipal buildings and police stations would not only be taken over by armed political militants but also condoned by mayors and other office-holders, they likely would not have taken you seriously. And that is how it begins indeed. Little by little, norms and order get eroded and then eventually ignored completely.
We are without a doubt heading that direction and 2020 was the precursor. It begins with socio-cultural changes that happen seemingly suddenly, followed by justified violence against “the enemy” and “oppressors”.
If these new norms are tolerated and allowed to progress with no resistance because people are first too scared to be cancelled and then scared for their lives, you don’t want to see what comes after that.
The Left is acting on tyrannical impulses, and Trump is the reagent that is making it justifiable in the minds of half of our citizens. Once this genie is fully out of the lamp, it may be impossible to put it back.
This is how countries move, inch by inch, into terrible conditions. Because these impulses, these sinful tendencies, crouch at the door to every human heart. We saw it with Trump, we saw it accelerate under Covid, and we likely have not seen its worst manifestation.
I agree particularly with this last part. If you’ve never been to countries that are in the midst of civil war, and have “othered” entire populations that also inhabit the same country and in doing so, justify unimaginable atrocities, then you can’t really conceptualize just how bad it can get.
Thankfully I didn’t have to witness the genocide in Rwanda but I was in Charles Taylor’s Liberia and Milosevic’s territory in Eastern Europe in the mid 90s and can tell you that ithe things I bore witness to left an indelible mark on my soul.
Before 2020 if you told any American that entire chunks of a city, including municipal buildings and police stations would not only be taken over by armed political militants but also condoned by mayors and other office-holders, they likely would not have taken you seriously. And that is how it begins indeed. Little by little, norms and order get eroded and then eventually ignored completely.
We are without a doubt heading that direction and 2020 was the precursor. It begins with socio-cultural changes that happen seemingly suddenly, followed by justified violence against “the enemy” and “oppressors”.
If these new norms are tolerated and allowed to progress with no resistance because people are first too scared to be cancelled and then scared for their lives, you don’t want to see what comes after that.