The Left is NOT falling into Trump’s traps

Rick Fischer
Aug 27, 2017 · 4 min read

There are voices trying to rein in the Left from its excesses by telling them they are falling right into the traps set by Trump. As though this Machiavelli is tricking the people on the Left into behaving as they never would otherwise, as though their principles and values would not ever allow them to behave like that were it not for President Rasputin.

These saner voices hope that the violent Left will abandon their tactics out of fear that somehow they are doing Trump’s bidding; that they would return to their senses if only they would realize that it’s Trump making them abandon their better principles and values. If that were so, there would be some cause for hope. But it isn’t, not by any stretch.

For years before Trump’s political ambition Democrats like Pelosi, Reid and Hillary, and their MSMedia, were routinely telling all Republicans and Conservatives that they were no better than terrorists; the labels racist, bigot, homophobe, and worse were liberally seasoned thoughout Leftist soundbites. Trump didn’t trick anyone into letting the people on the Right see what Democrats thought of them.

Ferguson was looted and burned long before Trump thought of running for president. It wasn’t Trump who tricked those black residents into believing that innocent Michael Brown was murdered with his hands in the air by a racist cop; it was the blacks in the BLM movement who spread that lie. It was their own whose lies produced months of street riots and assassinations of police by blacks in Ferguson and elsewhere. Trump didn’t make BLM do that; BLM saw the opportunity to turn the inner cities violent, and they took it.

This latest effort to bring racial violence to the streets went overboard with the claim that all whites are closet racists; that all benefit from “White Privilege” and thereby are all guilty, now and forever. “White Shaming” is now official in campus curricula. All that, of course, would apply also to all the whites who are Democrats, who are elites, who are donors and leaders, who are politicians. Wait just one minute; that is a threat to the Left as well. The Left had better find a way to exempt their people from being guilty race bigots, without exempting anyone on the Right. And with that, the issue is dying of its excesses. The outright anti-White screeds have nearly disappeared from Medium, anyone notice that? Now you know why — the excesses are counter-productive.

Anarchists on the Left have been using violence on campuses for years to shut down speech from Conservatives. Trump didn’t trick the AntiFa into rioting at Berkeley last February, or on campuses before and after that one. AntiFa anarchists have been beating Trump supporters at Trump rallies. AntiFa isn’t being tricked by Trump into behaving in ways they never would otherwise; anarchy and violence is the way they behave. It is their objective.

Trump didn’t trick the Left into going overboard about Russian interference in our election, embarrassing themselves when it turned out there was no collusion. Or going overboard about seeking dirt on his political opponent, embarrassing themselves when the evidence came out that Democrats did that as well and more aggressively to boot. Or now that those tactics have failed to gain traction, Trump did not trick the Left into suddenly discovering racism behind statues that have stood there all through Obama’s and Clinton’s presidencies with nary a peep of outrage.

So now the Left will treat us to faux outrage over the hatred that Columbus surely felt as he crossed the ocean hoping to deliver disease and genocide to the natives. What a damn bigot; Down with Columbus. The Left will go overboard on this manufactured outrage as well, demanding revisions and cleansing of our history and heritage, until even the Far Left is embarrassed by the excess. All the while AntiFa will take every opportunity to cause violence.

With an election one year away, the Democrats have saddled themselves with the slogan “Give us the Congress, and we will give you Impeachment”. Yup, that’s sure to be just what Americans want. How devious of Trump to trick you into that one.

The bottom line is this: Trump is not tricking the Left into breaching its principles and values — what we see are the Left’s principles and values. Trump derangement is simply making the Left not give a damn that we can all see what their principles and values have degraded into. That is the real task that the Left faces but will not admit — how to get back to the respectable principles and values of Classical Liberalism; having purged themselves of the Center, how to build the Center back.

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