The political Left’s strength is that it does not fear power, but seeks, seizes, and consolidates it without compromise.

In American Greatness, Pedro Gonzales tells us what it is like to live in Portland, Oregon.

Everyday Oregonians, too, were left to fend for themselves. Wheeler’s reign has normalized police inaction and not just against Antifa. Downtown Portland has become a quagmire teeming with thieving drug addicts and the homeless, along with human feces and the used needles they leave behind.

During Antifa’s month-long protest, Brianna Hakes, a food-cart operator, told Ngo that “people wearing masks threatened to hurt her and burn down the cart.” Wheeler’s police never responded to frantic calls from the Hakes family. One 52-year-old local artist photographing the scene had his camera slammed into his face by protesters. Charles Williams, a 62-year-old man, was threatened with an allegedly “AIDS-infected needle” by an Antifa member. Lisa Leonard, a 53-year-old disabled woman, told Ngo “occupiers hit her on her head, disabled her electric wheelchair, and lifted her in the air when she complained about loud drumming.”

…Everyday Oregonians, too, were left to fend for themselves. Wheeler’s reign has normalized police inaction and not just against Antifa. Downtown Portland has become a quagmire teeming with thieving drug addicts and the homeless, along with human feces and the used needles they leave behind.

During Antifa’s month-long protest, Brianna Hakes, a food-cart operator, told Ngo that “people wearing masks threatened to hurt her and burn down the cart.” Wheeler’s police never responded to frantic calls from the Hakes family. One 52-year-old local artist photographing the scene had his camera slammed into his face by protesters. Charles Williams, a 62-year-old man, was threatened with an allegedly “AIDS-infected needle” by an Antifa member. Lisa Leonard, a 53-year-old disabled woman, told Ngo “occupiers hit her on her head, disabled her electric wheelchair, and lifted her in the air when she complained about loud drumming.”

The Democratic Socialists of our time have walked a very similar line as the National Socialists of the past, eschewing the insurrectional path and instead undertaking a more or less legal conquest of power. The Democratic Party has allowed itself to become the political arm of the ideological Left, using legitimate government processes to further the ideological ends of the Left—whether that means turning a blind eye to Antifa or opening our borders. And because it enjoys the sweep of mainstream media and pop culture organs, it has established a cultural hegemony under which its ways and ends are justified; there is an institutionalized double standard of aggression and violence in favor of the Left.

…The Republican Party is and has long been organized on the principle of limiting and resenting power, of railing against corrupt elites—but never endeavoring to create a new elite aligned with its own principles.

The fact is that there is no limiting power in the 21st century. Power is an inevitability and a necessity. The Right can either consign itself to the politics of resentment or snatch the levers of power from the Left before they can be brought down on our necks. There is a need now more than ever for an American Right that is willing and able to bring the full spectrum of political and institutional warfare to the Democratic Party and its black-masked allies.

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