By John Hinderaker | POWERLINE
Everybody agrees that our country is in crisis – and
agrees that it is the worst crisis since the Civil War. But at the same time,
we tell ourselves a comforting tale about the source of the crisis that
perpetuates the problem instead of providing a path to ending it. We say our
politics are “divisive” and talk about “unity and healing” as though that would
miraculously be achieved if everybody stopped … what? Disagreeing? All politics
is divisive. That’s the healthy basis of our constitutional order: the freedom
to disagree. To suppress disagreement, to outlaw it – as many Democrats and
their Big Tech and media allies – are demanding these days, is to end democracy
as we know it.
The problem is not that we disagree. We are not suffering
as a nation from healthy disagreement. We are suffering from a Tsunami of Hate
emanating from the Democrat Party that seeks to demonize, criminalize and
extinguish dissent from the 75 million supporters of Donald Trump. It is now
official Washington dogma that to question an election result – something the
congressional Democrats have done in the face of every Republican presidential
victory since 2000 – is now “insurrection” and “domestic terrorism,” or the
incitement thereto, and needs to be prosecuted and suppressed.
You can’t have a democracy if this is the attitude of a
party that controls all three branches of government, is enabled by a corrupt
and compliant media, and is determined not just to defeat, but to humiliate,
destroy and expunge from the record an ex-president who is supported by a
greater segment of the American electorate than any American leader before him.
There is Democrat-sponsored legislation pending that
would prevent any public building or artifact, even a “bench” from being named
after the 45th president of the United States. There is a farcical witch-trial
to impeach the same villain even though he has left office and is now a private
citizen. There is even Democrat talk of stripping Trump of his pension, despite
the fact that he gave his entire $1.6 million salary as president to the
American people – something no president before him has done. If ever there was
a public lynching, short of stringing the victim from the nearest tree – and
there are no lack of leftwing calls for that – the Democrats’ unrelentingly
vindictive assault on the defeated Donald Trump down to the last petty detail
is it.
But what is in effect a total war is not merely a war to cancel Donald Trump. If it were, it would be reprehensible enough, but not a threat to the nation itself.
This demonic hate directed by the Democrat Party towards Trump is also hate for the 75 million Americans who voted for him. And there is no shortage of reminders of that. Ordinary Americans in all walks of life who happen to think that Trump’s presidency – which included record employment and record economic growth, delivered benefits for all Americans, particularly American minorities, secured America’s borders, defeated America’s terrorist enemies and led to an unprecedented reconciliation between Arab nations and the State of Israel – Americans who think this is a worthy achievement are treated as social pariahs, have their careers destroyed and (shades of the Kremlin) are regarded as mentally unfit and in need of deprogramming.
In a March 2020 interview with Axios James Clyburn – the
third ranking Democrat in the House and the political figure most responsible
for Biden’s primary victory – raised the specter of Hitler when speaking about
Trump, calling the president a racist and likening modern-day America to
Germany during the Nazi Party’s rise to power. “I used to wonder how could the
people of Germany allow Hitler to exist,” said Clyburn. “But with each passing
day, I’m beginning to understand how. And that’s why I’m trying to sound the
alarm.”
A Tsunami of Hate – not “divisiveness” – is the root
cause of our political crisis and the most existential threat we have faced
since the war to end slavery.
The fact that the threat posed by the Democrats’ Tsunami
of Hate is not just to Trump and his supporters, but to America itself, was
evident in one of Biden’s first directives as president, declaring that a war
on America’s “systemic racism” would be a priority of his administration: “The
fact is systemic racism touches every facet of American life.”
This is one of the Big Lies that have become articles of
faith for Democrats, and is easily refuted. The 1964 Civil Rights Act outlawed
“systemic racism.” Here is the Wikipedia description of the law:
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Pub. L. 88–352, 78 Stat.
241, enacted July 2, 1964) is a landmark civil rights and labor law in the
United States that outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex,
national origin, and later sexual orientation and gender identity. It prohibits
unequal application of voter registration requirements, racial segregation in
schools and public accommodations…
If systemic racism or institutional racism were a serious
problem in America – let alone touched “every facet of American life,” – as
Biden says, what do you think would happen? Assume, as Biden and woke Democrats
generally seem to think, that all white people are racists, there are thousands
of black attorneys, attorneys general, prosecutors, judges, legislators and
occupiers of the highest seats of government. If there was a scintilla of truth
in this statement there would be thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands of
lawsuits filed under the Civil Rights Act. But there are no such lawsuits. The
claim that “systemic racism touches every facet of American life” is itself a
racist lie, whose evident target is white people, since according to the woke,
“people of color” can’t be racist.
Not surprisingly, one of Biden’s first week initiatives
was a systemically racist plan to provide financial assistance to small
businesses whose owners were black, Asian, Hispanic, and Native American. Only
whites were excluded. But Asian Americans as an ethnic group have higher
incomes than white Americans. So what rationale for this policy is there but
anti-white racism?
How virulent is the anti-white and anti-American racism
of the Democrat Party? Consider this unhinged but also unchallenged statement
by Vice President Kamala Harris defending the Black Lives Matters rioters whose
“protests” caused billions in property damage, led to 25 deaths and injured
2000 police officers in the summer of 2020: “The reality is that the life of a
black person in America has never been treated as fully human… It’s no wonder
people are taking to the streets [to protest]. And I support them.”
In other words, the 44th president of the United States,
the “most admired man in America” for over a decade wasn’t treated as “fully
human,” or Martin Luther King – the only American with a national holiday in
his honor (courtesy of President Ronald Reagan). This lunatic hatred of white
America is now not only acceptable in the Democrat Party but the hateful creed
of its leaders.
To be fair, there are two main areas of systemic racism
in America today, but both are supported and enforced by the Democrat Party,
which is why they exist. The first is the systemic racism that traps inner city
children – mainly ethnic minorities – in inferior schools that for fifty years
and more have failed to provide 80 percent of them with the skills that are
necessary to succeed. Every year 40% of inner city children drop out of school
without graduating, and 40% of those who do, are functionally illiterate. The
Democrat teacher unions – the same which went on strike during the pandemic
with full pay at the expense of children who could not afford to miss school –
exert absolute control over these school systems and have stifled all attempts
at reforms. They are unalterably opposed to every alternative to their racist
policies, from charter schools to vouchers that give inner city kids the same
privilege as their middle-class counterparts, to allow their parents to enroll
them in schools that will teach them.
The other nationwide systemic racism is affirmative action
programs which discriminate against all ethnic groups but those designated
“oppressed” – a convenient leftist fiction used to justify all manner of
injustice. If you’re black or Pacific Islander or Hispanic, go to the head of
the line for a job, a promotion, a place at Harvard, a coveted training
position to become a surgeon or other medical specialist. If you’re white or an
ethnic minority whose community supports educational values and scores well on
exams, like Asians, forget that place at Harvard, you’re screwed.
How racist is that? And how readily is this racism
supported by a president and an administration, which like our most dedicated
foreign enemies thinks America is a nation of slavers and racist oppressors,
while at the same time our borders are under siege by black, brown and Asian
minorities desperate to become citizens of the most tolerant, inclusive and
egalitarian society on earth.
America will not be healed until the Democrat Party
returns to its senses, repudiates its current racist attitudes, and stops
demonizing its opponents as what Speaker Nancy Pelosi has called “enemies of
the state.”
