No. of Recommendations: 3
The set up:
https://davereaboi.substack.com/p/a-whimper-not-a-...The [d]emocrats had gone to the very edge of American discourse — beyond which is the disintegration of normal political life — and then, when they’d been repudiated by the voters, meekly pulled back. By stubbornly denying us our riots and hoped-for schadenfreude, the Left had us confused. We on the Right weren’t the only ones expecting immediate rage from Antifa and aligned groups in the event of a Republican victory; after all, half of downtown Washington, D.C., was boarded up in anticipation of election night. Why did nothing happen?A head-scratcher, for sure.
In short, we didn’t see post-election violence or mass protests because the scale of Trump’s victory meant that such rioting would appear — at least temporarily — as the angry self-indulgence of a minority that had been legitimately beaten at the ballot box. But the riots will come soon enough, and Antifa will menace the streets once again. While it wouldn’t have served to activate them during or after the 2024 campaign, the Democrats’ rhetoric about fascism and Nazism is a boon to Antifa, which looks forward to being presented again (as it was memorably in 2020, storming the beach at Normandy) as “freedom fighters” in the media’s next just cause.Reaboi goes on to explain that the left only deploys its shock troops in service of larger causes such that the media can provide "fiery but most peaceful" kind of coverage angles. Trump's election, while a blow to the left, was by large enough margins that any riots now discredits them.
Therefore, they will wait for the next opportunity they can frame using a Civil Rights narrative - Trump's upcoming deportations.
Those of us in blue cities should be prepared.
