MANSIZEDTARGET.COM – The last election campaign and events since suggest a country coming apart. Two nations in one. One is urban, liberal, globalist, multiracial, corporate, office-bound, anti-gun, irreligious, effete, progressive, and thoroughly angered by Trump’s mysterious election. And the other is rural, conservative, nationalist, mostly white, works with its hands, pro-gun, Christian, manly, skeptical, and energized by Trump’s rise.
The latter was very angry during the Obama years, but rarely resorted to violence. It’s certainly capable of violence, but it mostly approaches politics defensively. It wants to be left alone and is not animated by a desire to change the coastal enclaves of the hostile left. And it is too familiar with liberals from family, TV, and pop culture to consider them all evil and deserving of violence. They’re mostly thought wrong-headed and mistaken. Many on the right earnestly debate friends and relatives on Facebook. We don’t have a canard similar to “racist” to do verbal violence to our interlocutors. This live and let live philosophy incidentally is the historical American Way. The few violent upstarts among the right–Dylan Roof, Tim McVeigh–are pariah figures, almost universally loathed.
The left by contrast has increasingly normalized violence. There were hints of this during the election campaign when “punch a Nazi” was thrown around gleefully, or the shut-down of a Trump rally in Chicago was hailed as appropriate direct action.
Rightish speakers at universities are increasingly threatened, shouted down, or beaten up….
Source: Low Scale Civil War | MANSIZEDTARGET.COM