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Have you firebombed a Tesla lately? Me neither, but apparently, Molotov cocktails for Tesla dealerships represent the latest policy instrument of the self-proclaimed “Voice of Tolerance.”
While celebrating Donald Trump’s victory, you might not have noticed the spurned and defeated leftists busily evolving tactics to defeat Donald Trump’s mission of gutting the deep state, realigning international politics, and reinvigorating America in ways best described as “Reaganism on steroids.”
No, I don’t mean Democrat congressional representatives so utterly self-absorbed they haven’t a clue what to do when the slogans no longer work.
I too, enjoyed watching Congressional Democrats sitting on their hands or displaying little signs with those self-same failed slogans during Trump’s address to a joint session of Congress … even as Trump surprised a cancer-afflicted child with the dream of his life and earned tearful thanks from the parents and siblings of women murdered by Tren de Aragua thugs.
Next, the theatrics of a cane-waving Congressman Al Green getting escorted from the address and later censured by Congress – with a couple of dozen fellow leftists locking arms on the chamber floor to disrupt the preceding – were a thing to behold.
And then there was the schadenfreude (that word is for you, Mike) of watching a bizarre TikTok video of many female Democrat politicians doing some sort of awkward fight/dance. (I’m still not sure why.) Pundits called it “cringe-worthy,” which sounds about right.
What you are enjoying, however, is a diversion. The self-immolation of the Democrat Party afflicts only part of the left’s self-described “inside-outside strategy (IOS),” which works for “the day when the people regain independence through control over food, water, power, art and work.”
But fear not. When human instinct makes that utopia unworkable – as it inevitably will – “the people” in charge will be right there to enforce it with the iron fist of government. All for your “independence,” of course. (Few things, after all, are more authoritarian than utopia.)
Deus Ex Machina?
The unfolding Democrat Party tragicomedy highlights the left’s useful idiots. When you ask whether Kamala Harris, Gavin Newsome or Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez could actually be that stupid, the answer is yes.
Entertaining though they may be, however, Democrat antics aren’t what you need to watch. The second prong of the IOS strategy is litigation using Obama-appointed judges happy to flout the Constitution to further the desired social model. In the 90s, they called it “living document” theory: the fraud making it possible to reinterpret the Constitution as leftists see fit. More recently, they don’t even bother with that fig leaf, instead just saying “No!” to governmental reform and deportation of illegal alien criminals.
In nine years of fighting leftist “lawfare,” however, Trump has learned to adapt: Attorney General Pam Bondi has fielded an army of lawyers. The result is a mixed bag of court decisions, although even SCOTUS recently dealt Trump a 5-4 blow in his attempt to call back billions of misspent “foreign aid” via USAID – a decision about which Justice Samuel Alito, writing for the minority, said he is “stunned.”
The third prong of the inside game is internal sabotage, either from the federal bureaucracy or from Democrat-controlled cities and states. Highly effective in Trump’s first term, leaks from within (e.g. the leaked phone call with Ukraine) even fueled a bogus impeachment.
More recently, Department of Homeland Security leaks enabled activists with bullhorns to warn criminal illegal aliens targeted by ICE for deportation, potentially facilitating ambushes on law enforcement officers. In response, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem found the leakers and plans felony prosecution. Her plan forlie-detector tests for DHS personnel may further suppress this particular attack on the American people.
Elsewhere, mayors of “sanctuary cities” recently engaged in a screaming match while testifying to congressional Republicans over their attempts to defy ICE deportation of criminal illegal aliens. Kathy Hochul, governor of the disaster previously called The Great State of New York (from which I am a refugee), says she will be “leading the resistance” to “fight back hard” against Trump policies.
Beware The ‘Outside’ Game
As demonstrated by the flaming national temper tantrum against Elon Musk, the world’s richest man who doesn’t really need to take flak for creating environmentally-minded cars, defending free speech (and losing money) on “X”, exposing the massive federal kleptocracy, and rescuing NASA astronauts abandoned in space by Joe Biden, the left is quite willing to (literally) turn up the heat.
Beyond 11 Tesla dealerships attacked in what Bondi has dubbed “domestic terrorism,” we also have 14 – yes, 14 – conservative talk hosts and influencers getting“SWATted.” You know about “SWATting,” don’t you? That’s when some miscreant calls 9-1-1 to report a shooting at your house, preferably with hostages, preferably in the early morning hours, for the purpose of having police break down your door and kill you. Even better for leftists would be if you killed one of them (you right-wing murderer, you).
“Black block”-clad Antifa anarchists haven’t gone away, they’ve just switched issues. More than a year after the October 7 attacks, the “From the River to the Sea” masked Hamas advocates are still wreaking havoc at Columbia University and Trump Tower, spreading anti-Semitism on campuses and elsewhere, and dispelling any notion that we are dealing with “liberals.” Jewish Columbia students describe the attacks as “terrifying.”
For years, I’ve preached that leftists are deliberately creating chaos in order to replace American society with a socialist model. Mike Shelby of Forward Observer and Gray Zone Research, notes that the scheme even has a name: the “Cloward-Piven” strategy, which Wiki describes as “a political strategy outlined in 1966 by American sociologists and political activists Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven … [which aims to] … facilitate a ‘political crisis’ by overloading the welfare system via an increase in welfare claims, forcing the creation of a system of guaranteed minimum income and ‘redistributing income through the federal government.’”
Cloward-Piven (Pissant-Coward?) is an outgrowth of Saul Alinsky’s infamous quote: “The first step in community organization is community disorganization.” Unsurprisingly, Cloward and Piven hailed from Columbia University, refuge of European Marxists from the Frankfort School fleeing Hitler in 1933, bringing with them the “critical theory” which eventually metastasized into “critical race theory” – the weapon with which neo-Marxists divide American society.
What The Left Really Wants
As Mike Shelby correctly notes, what you should really be watching is the faux constitutional crisis being manufactured by lawfare, most recently against Trump’s deportation of criminal illegal aliens. (As one pundit put it, we now have leftists advocating predatory men in women’s locker rooms, gender mutilation of children, censorship of speech, and Tren de Aragua murderers.)
If you are tempted to chalk all that up to “Trump derangement syndrome,” don’t. We are getting exactly what Shelby predicted: Civil disorder rationalized by “Justice for Palestine,” Trump’s ostensible “fascism” and, most significantly, by the “constitutional crisis” precipitated by a radical district court judge trying to dictate U.S. policy.
Fox News’ “lawsuit tracker” so far finds more than 120 lawsuits filed against various Trump executive orders and policies. It isn’t a coincidence. As one who has organized seven public policy lawsuits (winning six of the seven, I might add), I know they aren’t cheap, even when sympathetic lawyers are willing to work pro bono. So, the question becomes, who is funding them and why? I can assure it’s not just to harass Donald Trump.
What you need to understand is that none of these things have anything to do with their ostensible issues. As I teach in seminars, “The problem is what you want to solve. The issue is how you frame the debate to solve the problem. Frame the issue to maximize your core constituency of support.”
The “problem” as neo-Marxists see it, is replacing free market capitalism with socialism. The “issues” they are willing to use are all of the things listed above. What you need to understand is that none of this is about Palestine, or transgender rights, or even mass migration.
Everything you see is about tearing down western society and replacing it with Marxism.
End Game?
Shelby wrote a series called “How civil wars start” in which he makes an interesting observation: namely, that civil war generally doesn’t result from conflicts between the “haves” and the have-nots,” but instead from “intra-elite conflict.”
What we are seeing is intra-elite conflict over the left’s systematically-constructed network of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and other mechanisms for hijacking our government using a socialist model … all funded by you, the taxpayer.
Says Shelby: “…this is not simple political warfare. This is an intra-elite conflict over control of state resources and cultural institutions, and it’s important because intra-elite conflict historically leads to civil war and state breakdown”, citing as examples the French Revolution, the English Civil War, and the fragmentation of the late Roman Republic and Weimar Germany.
Michael Anton, a national security staffer in Trump’s first administration who has also joined Trump’s second, wrote a book entitled The Stakes: America at the Point of No Return, which Shelby relates by saying: “Anton describes how left wing elites ‘augment, entrench, and perpetuate [their] privilege and power.’ Anton proposes the destruction of the existing elite, the creation of a ‘new elite,’ and ‘the reclamation of cultural power.”
Can you say “DOGE?” Can you say “USAID?” Can you say “DOE?” To quote Mr. Rogers, “Sure you can.”
Whether inspired by Anton, the Heritage Foundation’s “Agenda 2025,” or elsewhere, dislodging entrenched leftist elites is precisely what Donald Trump is doing … in a hurry.
And those entrenched leftist elites don’t like it very much.
A recent Wall Street Journal article supports Shelby’s model of intra-elite conflict:
- “Columbia University is fighting two wars at once. One rages publicly against President Trump, whose administration in recent days ordered the arrest of a student protester and canceled federal funds to the Ivy League school over allegations of antisemitism.
- “The second conflict simmers behind the scenes: a faculty civil war that pits medical doctors and engineers against political scientists and humanities scholars over how to handle pro-Palestinian demonstrations that have disrupted campus life.”
The good news is that D.E.I. doesn’t just hamstring mainstream Americans, it also ensures that idiots like Kamala Harris top the Democrat ticket. If the left finds an actual leader, we might have a problem.
The question, of course, becomes how much chaos neo-Marxists can orchestrate in their unfolding revolt. Hang on tight, kiddies. The next four years will be quite a ride.
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About Paul Valone
Author F. Paul Valone has been kicking leftist tail for twenty-eight years. Alarmed by the U.S. House passage of the “assault weapon” ban in 1994, he decided to take action. Finding no suitable organization, he organized a rally leading to the creation of a 501(c)(4) organization, Grass Roots North Carolina (GRNC), which remains North Carolina’s primary and most successful gun rights group to this day.
