Waiting for an Atrocity

With the attack on the Cities Church, the Minnesota Nice lefties have crossed a clear line. They’re no longer tribunes of the people, defenders of the oppressed, or speakers of truth to power. No…. now they’re living a dream. They’re giving full expression to their fantasy lives as Bolsheviki storming the Winter Palace, Red Guards liquidating the bourgeoisie, and Khmer Rouge cutting down everybody they come across, with all that implies — terror, violence, destruction, and bloodshed.

So we hear the cries of “why won’t Trump do something…” Why doesn’t he make his move? Why doesn’t he send in the 101st the way Ike did? Why doesn’t he federalize the state National Guard? Why doesn’t he declare martial law, clean out the streets, and send the cosplay Bolshis back to their dorms?

The answer to that it simple: he needs an atrocity.

Now, from our point of view, this has already happened, and in spades. Since the Renee Good shooting  (in which as we know, though too many others don’t, an ICE agent was run down and sent to the hospital) we have seen plenty. We have seen ICE officers attacked with shovels, iceballs, bottles, and explosives. We’ve seen hotels besieged and shut down. We’ve seen ordinary citizens stopped, interrogated, and threatened in the streets for driving a doubleplusungood SUV (more Red Guard cosplay here.) We’ve seen government vehicles wrecked and looted, including the theft of an FBI rifle – by a Tren de Agua member, no less. We’ve seen the lefties assault and severely beat one of their own. (He was rescued by ICE agents. Of course he was.) And we’ve seen a church disrupted in the middle of services, its congregation and pastor abused and threatened, with Don Lemon, that stalwart successor to Edward Murrow, present to lend legitimacy. What more do we need?

Well, here’s the thing. We’ve seen all that. But the man in the street, your average American, hasn’t.

He hasn’t seen it because the Minneapolis uprising has been carefully curated by the media to look exactly the opposite of what it is. Hired leftist thugs and TdA members have been masked by images of ICE officers presented as neo-Nazi thugs tormenting the innocent. This past weekend, the media was full of reports that the DoJ was deliberately hiring “white supremacists’ to serve in ICE. This is all that they hear. And keep in mind that many of our gentle fellow citizens are, to put it kindly, subnormal. The ones who believe exactly what they hear until they hear something else, and then believe that. There’s a lot of them, and they have the vote.

If Trump was to send in the troops at this point, the Morlock vote would hear that this was the second coming of fascism, that Trump had shown his true colors, that end of democracy was nigh and could be stopped only by heroic figures like Tim Walz and Ilhan Omar. The media would continue riding this straight up until November.

So that’s why we need an atrocity. That’s why we need something so horrifying, so ghastly, so grim as to be impossible to cover up or ignore. That may sound cynical, and it may sound cold, but that’s the world as it is, and it ain’t any other way.

And we will see it come. The Left has the bit between its teeth and is rampaging. All the wannabe Ches and Pol Pots gathered from around the country have sniffed blood and are ready to indulge all their bloodyminded fantasies. The beatings, the savagery, the descent into precivilized barbarity justified by perverse rhetoric and erudition, are coming to life. Their moment has arrived. They can sense it out there in the darkness, nearly within reach – their own, private version of a boot stamping a human face. It’s been five years since the new “Summer of Love” in which Minneapolis itself was put on the rack, the citizens terrorized, entire blocks burnt out. Long enough for it to be viewed with nostalgia. Now they are going to revive it, to relive it, to outdo it.

When they do, that’s when the hammer comes down. That’s when the troops already on alert take to the streets to restore the order that the citizens of Minneapolis, along with Walz, Frey, and Omar, have thrown aside. I’m not sure how Don Lemon will handle that. But I can guess.

J.R. Dunn, American Thinker