This weekend there was a massive protest of a small free-speech event in Boston by the Democrat's (and Mitt Romney's) favorite communist political action group, Antifa. As always the anti-democratic action was justified by calling the other side nazis. (In a previous era in MA they would have been called witches.) Official Boston Antifa Twitter called for the removal of classical liberals and supporters of the US Constitution. (Which is sedition under US code, where you at Sessions?) Police went to Twitter to kindly ask Antifa heroes against fascism to please stop throwing bottles of urine at them. When reached for comment, Arnold Schwarzenegger stated, "it's okay for Antifa to throw rocks and bottles of piss at cops and classical liberals."
Boston's own mayor thanked protesters for standing up to white supremacy. For a while the only defense against the white supremacy label has been to be non-white, and now even that is not a valid defense! What is an Indian that liberals don't like? A white supremacist. What's a flamboyant gay Jew arguing against feminism? A nazi.
Conservative political action needs to look like this. Make them protest the most ridiculous things. Right-wing extremists should temper their personas or stay home, or be sent home. At this point I assume anyone trying to organize right-wing events like what was seen in Charlottesville are saboteurs who should be blacklisted. There does, at least, seem to be a silver lining to it; it has fueled despicable behavior from the left. The didn't gain a PR victory in Charlottesville by peaceful action or providing sober commentary on the right's use of universally despised symbols. They did so by being violent and crude. That behavior has been reinforced and they are now out there damaging themselves. The goal for dealing with Antifa should be to find ways to reinforce their bad behavior that are not huge PR disasters for the right.
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