Friday, March 18, 2016

The Washington DC addicts to power just can't stop and are willing to do anything to keep that power.


There’s an air of menace about this campaign

 
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump describes how he was ready to punch a person who rushed the stage during an election rally earlier in the day on March 12 in Kansas City, Mo. (Nati Harnik/Associated Press)
 
By Charles Krauthammer Opinion writer March 17 at 7:57 PM
 
By international and historical standards, political violence is exceedingly rare in the United States. The last serious outburst was 1968 with its bloody Democratic-convention riots. By that standard, 2016 is, as yet, tame. It may not remain so.

The political thuggery that shut down a Donald Trump rally in Chicago last week may just be a harbinger. It would be nice, therefore, if we could think straight about cause and effect.

The immediate conventional wisdom was to blame the disturbance on the “toxic environment” created by Trump. Nonsense. This was an act of deliberate sabotage created by a totalitarian left that specializes in the intimidation and silencing of political opponents.

Its pedigree goes back to early-20th-century fascism and communism. Its more recent incarnation has been developed on college campuses, where for years leftists have been taunting, disrupting and ultimately shutting down and shutting out conservative speakers of every stripe — long before Donald Trump.

The Chicago shutdown was a planned attack on free speech and free assembly. Hence the exultant chant of the protesters upon the announcement of the rally’s cancellation: “We stopped Trump.” It had all of the spontaneity of a beer-hall putsch. 

Read more...https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/theres-an-air-of-menace-about-this-campaign/2016/03/17/8cb5961a-ec70-11e5-a6f3-21ccdbc5f74e_story.html
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Comments:

beacher2
3:46 AM EST
Mr. Krauthammer, some Americans are brave enough to stand up against fascism - unlike your GOP darlings who yell "Trump is unfit to be President" yet support him anyway. Cowards all.
Thomas Williams
3:44 AM EST
Donald Trump is not in the DC Clan and the members in the DC Clan are very afraid of that..

The Washington DC addicts to power just can't stop and are willing to do anything to keep that power. To rule and control their life style working and living connected to the United States Government in Washington DC for as long as they can.

So from the highest office holder to the lowest pundits receiving money because they are a part of the apparatus running the American Government levers of power. You and I will go on struggling to change the people working in the web of power that is visible or invisible around this country’s three branches of Government.

So our simple efforts to use our imagination and new ideas to make our US Government work better for the people. Are going to stay in direct conflict against the members of the DC Clan running our US Government for only the power sake. We now know their names so at lease we have moved that far and perhaps can now go the rest of the way for the just cause of normal people everywhere. And to hell with these addicted people to power because we knew them well. And Ted Cruz just keeps looking like another member of that DC Clan to me.
bburns.sacsports
3:36 AM EST
Apparently, one column a week is too much for this guy. Take your Fox News money and spare us the pain.
abj_slant
3:32 AM EST
Hm, Mr. Krauthammer. Maybe a little more emphasis on what fueled that discontent. People who have a decent job and reasonable hope for their children's future usually aren't out shadowboxing at perceived threats. But when 80% of the population only gets 15% of the nation's wealth, and the pink slip could arrive any day, you tend to start lashing out. Your front-runner talks a big game on immigration, but who is hiring these illegals? Disclosing who hires them would go a long way toward explaining why nothing is being done to enforce the laws already on the books.

You can blame the left until the cows come home, but you will get no closer to the source of the problem of voter insecurity and discontent.
johnr5436
3:32 AM EST
The totoletarian left? Whoever that is ..., a favorite rhetorical device, but not really meaningful. Just take 'em out on strechers, now *that* is meaningful! 
Pythagore
3:03 AM EST
Trump is another republican disaster. Even when you are not governing you find ways of screwing this country one way or another.
Trump needs to be stop and since the GOP is like a deer in front of headlights , then the rest of the country will take care of him.
Chepooka
2:53 AM EST
Talking about menace - does anyone think once nominated Trump would hesitate a second sending Tweets like:

Tweet 1: Hillary wants to take your weapons away - don't let it happen.
Tweet 2: You better carry your weapons, when you go to the election.
Tweet 3: You better ask your fellow voters whether they also want to take your weapons away ...

This guy really frightens me.

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