The Resistance

In the 1980′s the Democrat assault on Republican President Ronald Reagan was immediate and unending, slowed only briefly after his assassination attempt. Similarly, the immediate and continuous assault on Republican President George W. Bush, stalled for only a few months by 9-11, was eventually successful judging by his approval ratings upon leaving office. This, even though facts, vs unfounded accusations, were non-existent. And, now, President Donald Trump. A Republican so reviled by the left that they have yet to be able to come to grips with the fact he won. Of course, you expect the opposition to be just that, the opposition. Republicans were consistently attacking and obstructing President Obama during his two terms. But, this aggressive pattern by the left reveals a much deeper problem than simple political differences. The Democrats and their media allies were so shocked at Donald Trump's Presidential victory, and remain so, that their pattern of contempt, denial, protests, marches, attacks, obstruction and panic has developed its own name - 'The Resistance'. 'The Resistance' is committed to do whatever it can to delay, distract, and defeat every move the Trump Administration tries to make. This attack on free speech is contrary to everything progressives and the left profess to be about. Yet their actions prove different. The many position contradictions create a pattern of hypocrisy from the left. What they are doing is this; 'if you agree with me and my chosen constituents, your speech is approved. If not, your speech must be silenced in anyway necessary'. Certainly not the definition of unity, debate of the issues, compromise or the American way. This plan began immediately after Mr. Trump's November 8th election and continues with growing momentum, if not growing national support.

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I was a Senate page boy for a couple of summers in the early Eisenhower years. Joe McCarthy was in full cry. I would ride in the Senate elevator with him sometimes or sit near him in the toy monorail subway car that runs between the Capitol and the Senate Office Building. He had black smudges under his eyes and a hearty Elks Club way with the tourists he encountered in the halls of the Capitol. He wore rumpled dark-blue suits and gravy-catcher ties, and from time to time he would emit a mirthless chuckle (heh heh heh). If you got close, he gave off a whiff of last night’s whiskey. Years later, that smell—stale, heavy—merged in my mind with the moral odor of McCarthyism, a sour American memory. Saint Thérèse de Lisieux, the Carmelite known as “The Little Flower,” was said to have emitted a strong scent of roses at her death—“the odor of sanctity.” Joe McCarthy produced the opposite effect. So does the cancel culture, which is the 21st century’s equivalent of McCarthy’s marauding. The country’s myriad cancelers emit the odor not of sanctity but of sanctimony, and of something more ominous: the whiff of a society decomposing. What’s happening on the American left—with surreal rapidity, like the fall of France in 1940—is sinister. Wokeness and the cancel culture represent not idealism but virtue gone clinically insane. Look up the word hysteria: “a psychological disorder whose symptoms include . . . shallow, volatile emotions, and overdramatic or attention-seeking behavior.” The indignant woke, who imagine themselves to be righteously awake and laying the foundations for a more just and humane world, ought to pause

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