Let’s be extremely honest with our assessment that the Left is comfortable with some destruction and some rioting as long as it serves their purpose of disquieting society. George Floyd was the unfortunate Girardian scape-goat. His death was used to propel an agenda and to shift focus to the “societal decay” under a Trump presidency. It’s true that you may have heard one or two politicians out there saying that riots are bad, but when Leftists want to articulate something they come together as a band harmonizing like Lennon and McCartney. In this case, they were happily harmonizing to the sound of silence.There was a time when people kept these radical opinions to themselves, but now you have Op-Ed pieces on NPR extolling the philosophical case for why small businesses are part of a nefarious capitalist propaganda. Sorry, Mom and Pops!
As I mentioned before, Trump could be articulating a much more pristine vision of the conservation of ideas, but you can’t untrump his rhetoric to your favorite Milton Friedman impersonation. He is indubitably Trump when he is on Twitter and when he isn’t (which is not often). However, what we see without a shadow of a doubt is a Democratic Party waking up to the fact that regular human beings are not big fans of destruction, especially their own local businesses wherein they poured their heart and soul and sweat. Who would have thunk it!?
The polls are shifting rapidly:
Post-GOP convention poll from Emerson has Trump winning 19% of blacks (no GOP candidate has gotten more than 15% since 1960) and 37% of Hispanics (which would tie Reagan in 1984 as the second-highest for GOP candidate). HT: Steve Deace
It is true that Republicans have a tendency to shift with some wind, but Democrats shift when cows fart, which incidentally affects climate change (that’s the rumor, according to Al Gore). This all means that we are about to hear some fairly decent defenses of private property coming from disciples of Barack Obama. In fact, just a few hours ago I read a prominent Democrat talk about how disgraceful it is to destroy the lives of hard-working black businessmen. For the record, we have been stressing this before Adam Smith was born. In fact, we like to think that we–conserver of values–really like that anything private stay intact unless an owner decides to renovate.
What we are seeing now is a party willing to defend whatever it takes to get Trump out of office. They are willing to bring Hillary out of the grave, they are willing to put Billie Eilish’s green hair on display, and they are willing to even defend private property. We have 63 days to consider these matters; a little over two months to contemplate some important trajectories in our country. The Church can thrive under any regime, but she does not have to willingly capitulate to the indoctrination of progressive shifties looking to cow farts for ideological direction.
