In theory, they are three completely unconnected stories. Here are the headlines:
Suspect bashes and bloodies NYPD officers, including chief of department, amid protest
Journalist Bari Weiss skewers New York Times in her resignation letter
The headlines are from, respectively, Fox News, The Los Angeles Times, and Mediaite. But a careful reading of each story reveals exactly what the connection is between these three stories and, in fact, countless others in recent days.
What, really, is that first story about? It is plainly about the breakdown of law and order, in that case, the breakdown of law and order in New York City – a city famously run by the openly socialist Democrat Mayor Bill De Blasio.
The story begins this way:
“A protester assaulted a group of New York Police Department cops, including the highest-ranking uniformed member of the department, on Wednesday during a demonstration on the Brooklyn Bridge, according to police and footage of the attack.
The NYPD announced in a tweet around 12:30 p.m. that at least three officers were hurt by someone swinging a long object at the officers while they were placing someone under arrest on the opposite side of one of the bridge’s fences.”
The NYPD tweeted out that the officers had “sustained serious injuries.”
The second story is about the letter of resignation from New York Times editor and writer Bari Weiss. Weiss’s letter of resignation said, among other things, this:
“Twitter is not on the masthead of The New York Times. But Twitter has become its ultimate editor. As the ethics and mores of that platform have become those of the paper, the paper itself has increasingly become a kind of performance space. Stories are chosen and told in a way to satisfy the narrowest of audiences, rather than to allow a curious public to read about the world and then draw their own conclusions. I was always taught that journalists were charged with writing the first rough draft of history. Now, history itself is one more ephemeral thing molded to fit the needs of a predetermined narrative.
My own forays into Wrongthink have made me the subject of constant bullying by colleagues who disagree with my views. They have called me a Nazi and a racist; I have learned to brush off comments about how I’m “writing about the Jews again.” Several colleagues perceived to be friendly with me were badgered by coworkers. My work and my character are openly demeaned on company-wide Slack channels where masthead editors regularly weigh in. There, some coworkers insist I need to be rooted out if this company is to be a truly “inclusive” one, while others post ax emojis next to my name. Still other New York Times employees publicly smear me as a liar and a bigot on Twitter with no fear that harassing me will be met with appropriate action. They never are.”
And the last story? That one reveals that a new poll has the once-presumed-to-lose President Trump (by the liberal media) surging in the latest Rasmussen poll. The story begins:
“President Donald Trump experienced a 7-point swing in support from likely voters over the last week, according to the latest Rasmussen tracking poll released Wednesday.
Trump now trails former Vice President Joe Biden in the race for president by 3 percentage points among likely U.S. voters, according to the survey. Biden leads Trump 47-44 percent, marking a significant decline from his 10-point lead a week ago, when voters said they favored Biden 50-40 percent.
The shift was driven by independent voters. Voters who said they were unaffiliated with either major party gave Biden a six-point lead, 44-38 percent, down from 12 points a week ago. Biden and Trump attracted a similar level of support from voters in their own parties, with 79 percent of Republicans saying they supported Trump and 76 percent of Democrats saying the same of Biden.”
Now. String those stories together and they tell what for any seriously discerning political eye is an obvious story.
The majority of the American people love their country – and they decidedly do not like violent “protestors” beating the hell out of police officers. This most certainly does NOT mean they endorse police brutality when it occurs. It DOES mean they understand that in the overwhelming cases the police are there to maintain law and order so that everybody else can go about their business of safely taking care of their families, doing their jobs and simply enjoying the freedom that America provides a right to all of its citizens.
The majority of the American people, many who may never read the New York Times, understand exactly the culture that Bari Weiss is talking about. And they detest it. In fact, as I mentioned in my book Swamp Wars: Donald Trump and the New American Populism vs. The Old Order back there in January of 2016, as the Trump candidacy was starting to visibly gain speed and altitude, The Washington Post (of all places!) was perceptive enough to headline this:
Why Trump may be winning the war on ‘political correctness’
The story began this way:
“Cathy Cuthbertson once worked at what might be thought of as a command post of political correctness — the campus of a prestigious liberal arts college in Ohio.
‘You know, I couldn’t say ‘Merry Christmas.’ And when we wrote things, we couldn’t even say ‘he’ or ‘she,’ because we had transgender. People of color. I mean, we had to watch every word that came out of our mouth, because we were afraid of offending someone, but nobody’s afraid of offending me,’ the former administrator said.
All of which helps explain why the 63-year-old grandmother showed up at a recent Donald Trump rally in Hilton Head Island, S.C., where she moved when she retired a year ago.
The Republican front-runner is ‘saying what a lot of Americans are thinking but are afraid to say because they don’t think that it’s politically correct,’ she said. ‘But we’re tired of just standing back and letting everyone else dictate what we’re supposed to think and do.’”
And now? Four years later? What Cathy Cuthbertson was venting about to The Post in 2016 has erupted into what I call a full-blown “New American Fascism” – with what happened to those New York cops and Times reporter Bari Weiss – and oh so much more – part and parcel of the same intolerance liberally salted with outright violence. Or, put another way, anti-Americanism in its purest form.
Simply put? There are millions of Americans watching all of this and quietly saying to themselves: “Enough is enough.”
All of which, the wizards of liberal media “smarts” seem not to understand.
