The Democrats’ Fightin’ Words
On a show once with a liberal most insulting, conservative Democrat and ex-Georgia governor Zell Miller lamented (I’m paraphrasing), “Boy, it’s too bad we don’t still engage in dueling.” I can sympathize. The charmingly antediluvian G.K. Chesterton opposed dueling not mainly because it left someone dead, but because it settled no arguments. But it certainly would accomplish one thing today: reintroducing some civility in public discourse.
“You’re a fascist!” “Trump is Hitler!” “You’re a racist, sexist, homophobic hater!” exclaims the Left. This isn’t new. A Democrat congressman once accused Ronald Reagan of aiming to replace the Bill of Rights with Mein Kampf-born fascist precepts, while an Esquire writer likened Reagan’s supporters to the Third Reich’s “good Germans.” And Keith Olbermann and others called G.W. Bush “fascist.” Yet with Trump Derangement Syndrome and the Left’s ever-waxing godless immorality, such rhetoric now reigns and rains down continually. MSNBC’s Donny Deutsch recently characterized Trump voters as “Nazis” and the “bad guy[s].” Moreover, last year CNN said that vulgarity is the “Democrats’ new strategy,” an example being California Democratic Party Chairman John Burton leading a “F*** Donald Trump!” chant at a 2017 party convention. Clearly, the Left will now say anything in its passion-fest and insatiable power lust.
Now, question: Habitually hurling such words at others on city streets would yield what inevitable result? You’d taste concrete.
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