BY FRANK VERNUCCIO
Across kitchen tables and
water coolers, in hushed tones
and worried glances, Americans
are quietly asking each
other whether a new Civil
War is coming.
Political squabbles, no
matter how bitter, do not lead
to speculation about a nation
splitting apart. But what has
occurred over the past decade
is far more than disputes
between parties or a clash
of ideologies.
The fi rst instance of an
abnormal threat arose when
progressives attempted to
overturn the 2016 presidential
election with false charges.
But even before then, when
the Obama Administration
made radicals and terrorists
honored guests at the White
House, and used the Internal
Revenue Service and the Department
of Justice to attack
those who disagreed with its
policies, it became apparent
that a chasm was opening between
the activist left and the
rest of the nation.
The groundwork was laid
even earlier. Educational institutions,
media outlets, and
Hollywood began pushing an
historically inaccurate, indeed
libelous, picture of the
nation that has provided more
freedom and more prosperity
than anything else that
ever existed.
Now, mayors in places like
Portland, Oregon side with rebellious
mobs over their own
police force. New York’s mayor
defi es both the city’s own
ethics rules and the United
States Constitution in his determined
bid to put the interests
of an extremist group and
the criminal actions they undertake
above the good of his
own city.
The lesson of history and
especially the 20th century
is that freedom has many enemies.
Its opponents have had
many variations in name but
many similarities in practice.
The use of inciting and misleading
propaganda to intimidate
voters. Threatening public
order with groups claiming
ancient grievances that have
already been largely resolved.
Discrediting established centers
of justice and law. Glorify
a ruthless criminal element
who make the use and threat
of violence a normal part
of politics.
The recent attempted assassination
of two Los Angeles
sheriff personnel is a continuation
of the Antifa/Black
Lives Matter/progressive violent
opposition to law enforcement,
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evidenced by the subsequent
demonstration at the
hospital by leftists shouting
that they hoped the wounded
victims die.
A key essential is subverting
the normal processes of
elective politics. This was
done by Speaker Pelosi and
Rep. Adam Schiff following
2016. An even more dishonest
and radical plan to do
so is being planned for the
2020 ballot.
Having failed to unlawfully
wrest power through the
collusion myth, an Orwellian
scheme called the “Transition
Integrity Project (TIP)” is the
next attempt by the left to ensure
that power is taken no
matter what the election result
is, unless the result is so
overwhelming it cannot be denied.
Not satisfi ed with seeking
to tip the scales by various
means, depending on the
state, such as issuing driver’s
licenses to illegal aliens that
made it easy for them to register
to vote, opposing reasonable
ballot security, giving
convicted felons the vote,
allowing party partisans to
collect ballots, and instituting
mail-in voting without
any safeguards to insure only
qualifi ed voters submit ballots,
TIP’s perpetrators are
peddling a completely false
fairy tale that the Trump Administration
wouldn’t acknowledge
a potential election
lost. It’s essentially just
another in a series of phony,
sensationalist attempts to distract
the public from concentrating
on policy issues, such
as the Democrat leaders’ unpopular
support of Antifa violence,
open borders, tax increases,
decreased funding
for the police and the military
and tolerance of China’s theft
of American jobs.
TIP’s end goal was clearly
enunciated by both Hillary
Clinton, who advised Joe
Biden not to concede no matter
what the election result is,
and John Kerry, who urged
violence in the streets in the
event of a Trump victory.
A continuation of the attempts
to overturn election
results is a serious challenge
to the American form of government,
but it is not the only
danger. The normalization
of violence is the essential
addition that could lead to
open confl ict.
The attempted overturning
of elections, the use of
violence, the spreading of
malicious propaganda: the
answer to the question of
whether a civil war is coming,
is no. No, because it has
already arrived.
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