You daren't do unto us what we're doing unto you!

 

That's what Victor Davis Hanson sees in the current vindictive lawfare assault on President Trump, and the progressive left's assault on conservatives in general.

The Left repeatedly breaks laws and long-held customs with impunity by weaponizing federal offices and bureaus, whether defined in the legal sphere by mostly exempting 120 days of mass rioting, looting, arson, mayhem, and lethal violence in the summer of 2020, or procedurally by denying the House minority leader the right to nominate his party members to committees, or ceremonially having the speaker of the House tear up the presidential State-of-the-Union Address on national television.

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It is the revolutionary Left that attacks institutions deemed unhelpful for its current political agenda—one that rarely warrants 50 percent public approval—whether that effort is defined by threats of ending the filibuster, scrapping the Electoral College, adding two more states, packing the court, or radically changing balloting laws and customs to turn elections into a 70 percent no-show of voters on Election Day.

All of the above is predicated on a simple premise: Were the opposition to match tit-for-tat these Democratic means, then the republic would quickly descend into a spiral of illegality and chaos analogous to what ended the late Roman Republic. That fact is well known to the new hard-left Democratic Party. So it has assumed the role of the spoiled teen who feels he has a blank check of lawless behavior that his parents would not dare emulate, given that for adults to do so would destroy the family.

In other words, the Left is saying to America something along the following lines, “We are so morally superior to you that we can and must employ any means necessary to achieve our unpopular political ends. But you cannot respond in kind or deter us by mimicking our own tactics, because should both parties do so, the resulting disorder would undermine the republic. And that is something you won’t dare do.”

There's more at the link.

It's a persuasive argument.  If conservative and middle America were to say "So far and no further", the progressive left would erupt in demonstrations, violence and anarchy, seeking to impose their will by intimidation.  Sadly, a great many Americans would be cowed by such uprisings, and prefer to back down rather than risk what might come from such confrontations.

Of course, the only way forward - the only way to stop such progressive machinations - is to accept that risk, and stop them in their tracks.  That means accepting the necessity to answer in kind:  to meet provocation with resistance, to answer violence with violence.  There's no other way to do it.  Gandhi's non-violent solution worked in India, in a colonial situation, but he wasn't facing an opponent that welcomed violence and embraced it as a political and social strategy.  We are.

Christians, in particular, are going to have to harden their hearts in this regard.  It's very easy to say that we should turn the other cheek, as Christ commanded:  but in this case, if we do that, they'll rip it off, along with the first cheek we turned.  The progressive left knows no other approach except intimidation and dominance.  Anything less is seen as weakness.  That's why they've made so much progress, and they have every intention of continuing their progress until all resistance is at an end.

It's time to stop them . . . if necessary, by using their own tactics against them.  To begin with, that can be to use the same legal tactics against them that they've used against us.  If they take that to the next level, well, we can do that too - and we must, or be steamrollered by those with everything at stake and absolutely no inhibitions of conscience.

Peter