Who Are the Real Insurrectionists?
Stone-cold sober elites are systematically waging a far more dangerous and insidious revolution in the shadows than anything threatenedby the American Right.
By Victor Davis Hanson January 5, 2022
All these sustained revolutionary activities were justified as necessary to achieve the supposedly noble ends of removing Donald Trump.
The result is Third World-like jurisprudence in America aimed at rewarding friends and punishing enemies, masked by service to social justice.
We are in a dangerous revolutionary cycle. But the threat is not so much from loud, buffoonish one-day rioters on January 6. Such clownish characters did not for 120 days loot, burn, attack courthouses and police precincts, cause over 30 deaths, injure 2,000 policemen, and destroy at least $2 billion in property—all under the banner of revolutionary justice. Even more ominously, stone-cold sober elites are systematically waging an insidious revolution in the shadows that seeks to dismantle America’s institutions and the rule of law as we have known them.
Opinion
The Myth of January 6 | Opinion
Pedro L. Gonzalez , associate editor at Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture
1/6/22
The myth of January 6 justifies this disparity in treatment, but only by burning through the credibility that remains in its institutional support structure.
If Americans are losing faith in democracy and its federal protectors, it is because rather than govern well and conduct themselves admirably, the managers of the established political order have declared war on half the country or dismissed its concerns as illegitimate. Rather than attempt a correction, a myth has been fabricated—a day of infamy that has to be magnified in importance by twisting and contorting facts into a gun pointed at the heads of millions of Americans.
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