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The Patriot Post Digest 2-21-2019
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The Patriot Post® · Mid-Day Digest
Feb. 21, 2019
https://patriotpost.us/digests/61316-mid-day-digest
THE FOUNDATION
“Nothing is more certain than that a general profligacy and corruption of manners make a people ripe for destruction.” —John Witherspoon (1776)
https://patriotpost.us/fqd/61315-founders-quote-daily
IN TODAY’S EDITION
There’s nothing “right wing” about hateful identity politics.1
Just how far left are Democrats going? Gallup has some answers.2
Daily Features: More Analysis3, Columnists4, Headlines5, Opinion in Brief6, Short Cuts7, Memes8, and Cartoons9.
IN BRIEF
The Ugly Face of White Nationalism Is Identity Politics10
Thomas Gallatin
On Wednesday, it was learned that federal investigators had arrested11 a U.S. Coast Guard lieutenant on weapons and drug charges last Friday. Lt. Christopher Paul Hasson, a self-identified white nationalist, had been stockpiling weapons in his Silver Spring, Maryland, apartment in preparations for his plan to instigate a race war. The charges referenced Hasson as “a domestic terrorist” who intended to “murder innocent civilians on a scale rarely seen in this country.” In his own words, Hasson was “dreaming of a way to kill almost every last person on the earth.”
Hasson had created a specific hit list of “traitors” that included congressional Democrats like House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Sen. Richard Blumenthal, as well as Leftmedia personalities such as MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough and CNN host Don Lemon.
In a 2017 letter to “a known American neo-Nazi leader” following the deadly violence at the infamous racist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia12, Hasson wrote that he was “a long time White Nationalist, having been a skinhead 30 plus years ago before my time in the military. I fully support the idea of a white homeland… We need a white homeland as Europe seems lost. How long we can hold out there and prevent niggerization of the Northwest until whites wake up on their own or are forcibly made to make a decision whether to roll over and die and stand up remains to be seen.”
Thankfully, the authorities arrested Hasson before he attempted to follow through on his murderous plot.
What examples like Hasson serve to expose is the underlying evil behind identity politics, whether it comes in the form of white nationalism or in more widely accepted forms like Black Lives Matter or the Women’s March. The evil of identity politics is fomenting rabid tribalism. It is the antithesis of constitutional conservatism, which espouses the God-given dignity, rights, and Liberty of each individual over that of any one identity group. An individual should be judged by actions and ideas, not identify-group classification.
The hatred of others based upon their immutable characteristics is not a conservative or politically right-wing perspective, even though the mainstream media often erroneously conflates the two — often with the help of the hate-baiting Southern Poverty Law Center13. Instead, it is an expression of identity politics. (One party in America specializes in this, and it’s not Republicans.) By its very nature, identity politics highlights tribal grievances (real or imagined) and then uses these grievances to vilify and blame another targeted group as the “problem.” It seeks to pit groups against each other by preaching the flawed Marxist ethic of oppressor vs. oppressed, creating overly simplistic paradigms like bourgeois vs. proletariat or rich vs. poor. In Hasson’s case, that manifested as sociopathic white nationalism, and there’s nothing remotely “right wing” about it.
https://patriotpost.us/articles/61313-the-ugly-face-of-white-nationalism-is-identity-politics
Just How Far Left Are Democrats Going?14
Nate Jackson
We’ve spent much of the last two years chronicling how far and fast Democrats are moving to the extreme left. But don’t take our word for it — take the word of average Democrats.
In a new Gallup survey, “Understanding Shifts in Democratic Party Ideology15,” the organization attempts to discern an answer to what average Democrat voters think on a range of current issues. What researchers found is staggering, though it confirms what we’ve written for years:
As Gallup has previously reported, the percentage of Democrats nationally who identify as politically liberal has been increasing. This has occurred in three distinct phases: 1) 2001-2006, when the percentage was trending steadily upward; 2) 2007-2012, when liberalism held steady near 40% for several years in a row and 3) 2013-2018, when liberalism resumed its upward trajectory.
The percentage of Democrats identifying as politically liberal averaged 32% in the first period, 39% in the second and 46% in the third. At the same time, the percentages identifying as conservative and moderate fell equally.
Though all identity groups within the party have moved left, the starkest shift has been among college-educated whites — a testament to the stranglehold “progressives” have on the higher-education system16 because, Gallup notes, “the percentage of all college graduates (including postgrads) increas[ed] by 13 points.” Just 34% of that cohort identified as “liberal” in the early 2000s. Now it’s 54%. The shift is on issues running the gamut, too. Whether it’s gun control, climate change, or abortion, rank-and-file Democrats are moving left.
Democrat politicians have exploited and driven this shift. Remember a dozen years ago when the likes of Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Chuck Schumer supported border security and opposed same-sex marriage and single-payer health care? Heck, Bill Clinton signed the Defense of Marriage Act, the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (sponsored by then-Rep. Schumer), and implemented “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” Now, not only have those same politicians — and the entire party — shifted, but they utterly vilify anyone who hasn’t adopted the radical new positions of open borders, forcing bakers to serve same-sex weddings, and Medicare for All. In fact, the latter is practically a litmus test for the 2020 presidential field.
Pondering the fallout of this shift, National Review’s David French writes17, “Any study of the political polarization in the 21st century has to account for the fact that it is extraordinarily difficult to achieve any kind of national consensus when one side is rapidly and constantly changing its demands. … The terms of the debate changed. The goalposts shifted.”
Indeed they have, and yet, somehow, leftists are even more angry than they were before all their victories. In any case, even with Donald Trump in the White House and the Senate under GOP control, Gallup’s findings portend trouble ahead for the cause of Liberty.
https://patriotpost.us/articles/61290-just-how-far-left-are-democrats-going
ON OUR WEBSITE TODAY
Featured Analysis: Amazon Illuminates the Democrat Party Divide18 — High-tax cronyists on one side, socialist “purists” on the other. Neither is good for business.
Higher Education? More Like Leftist Indoctrination16 — America’s colleges and universities are producing indoctrinated lemmings, not educated reasoning adults.
Greening of the Earth Enhanced by … India and China?19 — Over the last two decades, the earth has seen a big increase in area covered by green leaves.
Video: How Socialism Killed Venezuela20 — It meets all 10 of Karl Marx’s tenets of socialist government. Such planned economies fail.
Don’t Miss Alexander’s Column
Read Comey/McCabe/Rosenstein: The Coup Co-Conspirators21. While the FBI’s McCabe deflected blame to DoJ’s Rosenstein, McCabe’s coup d'etat against Trump is still in motion.
If you’d like to receive Alexander’s Column by email every Wednesday, update your subscription here22.
GOOD NEWS
Powerlifter Lifts 2-Ton SUV Off Man Trapped Underneath23
“A powerlifter in Michigan is being hailed as a real life super hero after his quick actions helped save a man pinned under a rolled over vehicle. Ryan Belcher, 29, was preparing to leave work last Thursday when he heard a loud crash outside his workplace. He noticed an SUV flipped upside down, and he rushed outside toward the wreckage. Ryan said there was a man trapped under the vehicle begging for help. Belcher, who is 350 pounds and can deadlift over 800 pounds, recalled thinking at the time, ‘This is where I need to be. All the training I’ve been through… this is the time where it’s really going to pay off.’ But the Jeep Cherokee he was about to try and lift weighed roughly two tons…”
Read more at Sunny Skyz24.
https://patriotpost.us/articles/61288-powerlifter-lifts-2-ton-suv-off-man-trapped-underneath
TOP HEADLINE SUMMARY
Jussie Smollett’s hate-hoax theatrics26 may well land him behind bars. Authorities have officially leveled a felony charge27 against the actor, accusing him of fabricating a police report. A guilty verdict comes with the possibility of three years in prison.
Economic headwinds: “The United States and China have started to outline commitments in principle on the stickiest issues in their trade dispute, marking the most significant progress yet toward ending a seven-month trade war,” Reuters reports28. Despite being “far apart on demands made by U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration for structural changes to China’s economy,” the report notes that “a deal is beginning to emerge from the talks … as the two sides push for an agreement by March 1.” |
