They have our best interests at heart?

It’s hard, after all, to imagine that the hard-core left has any noble purposes in this violence. The first figure arrested in Durham was picked up after a press conference of the World Workers Party, a Marxist melange that stuck with the Soviets through Hungary in 1956 and Czechoslovakia in 1968. Lately they’ve been on the barricades defending — wait for it — North Korea.

It takes a lot of Communist commitment to believe Trump is worse than Kim Jong-un. There’s no reason to imagine that the left is going to settle for a few statues of Lee.

The left wants to attack the very legitimacy of America, of which Washington is the real symbol. And going after statues and other cultural icons is part of the Marxist playbook. [Italics mine]

Read Orwell about it:

It was written about by George Orwell in his dystopian novel “1984,” a quote from which is making the rounds this week.

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In it, one of Orwell’s characters warns of how “every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building has been renamed, every date has been altered.” “And that process is continuing day by day and minute by minute,” adds Orwell’s character. “History has stopped.”

They disrupt in a most destructive manner.

Well, he looked into Hillary’s emails and might have felt compromised and (a) wanted out of dubious investigations or (b) objected to this one and complained to a see-no-such-evil Mueller.

As chief of the FBI’s counterespionage section last year, he helped oversee the FBI’s investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server, and he took part in the FBI interview of the Democratic presidential candidate.

Who knows? I sure don’t.

. . . of Washington and Jackson, and get their names off our parks.

And if he refuses, will he get his puss on Sun-Times page one, like Republicans Rauner the governor and Trump the president, with nasty things said about them too? Will he be called a racist? Will he be called a fake mayor?

(Don’t count on that, he’s a Dem.)

Latest version of “You can’t quit, you’re fired.”

Later: Make that “You can’t fire us, we quit,” per Wall St. Jnl’s “Trump’s Business Councils Disband After CEOs Defect” in today’s paper.

(Subscribers only , but lede ‘graph makes the point)

Free speech under fire

Unless you don’t like what VDare says and therefore want to stop it.

And there’s a lot of that going on these days, isn’t there?

Well, we should ask two die-hard Dems about this.

. . . . That is, unless you’re a racist.

Or if you are one and are desperate for flowers and willing to perjure yourself.

Gutsy, focused, armed to the teeth.

(HT/ Stephen Green.)

Clear as glass. If he were one of those other guys, he’d be hired.

Rick Morrissey, sports writer with inclination to preach, says Kaepernick is a great f-ball player, but:

. . . he doesn’t have a job, almost surely because he knelt during the national anthem last year in protest of what he thinks is the poor treatment of African-Americans in U.S. society. Apparently, this is much more frightening to NFL teams than the garden-variety league issues of domestic violence and assault and battery. A fist to the face is better than a knee on the ground. That seems to be the mindset.

Difference here escapes Morrissey, namely that domestic violence, as bad as it is, is done privately. But the national anthem business is done publicly. Insult the flag and the country privately, you keep your job. Do it before an audience of millions in team uniform with intent to gather political support, you know what you are doing and you pay a price. So it seems.