Far Left’s Animus Toward America Faces Test in Midterm Voting

America’s left-wing fringe, which is increasingly indistinguishable from the Democratic Party mainstream, absolutely hates our nation. You’d have to be blind not to see it.Take the latest example: the vandal, Jonathan Andrew Tijerina, who just desecrated the 9/11 Memorial Reflecting Pool in downtown Manhattan.Earlier this week, Mr. Tijerina was arrested and charged for an act of brazen, iconoclastic vandalism. In broad daylight, the 31-year-old spray-painted, over the engraved names of dozens of those killed on that terrible day 25 years ago, a plug for his silly little anti-gun website: “Juststopkillingkids.com.”Mr. Tijerina made no attempt to hide his dirty deed. On the contrary, he boasted about it on social media. He said he was “trying to spread awareness” about gun violence.One imagines Hamas’ paragliders said the same thing when they donned GoPro cameras before swooping into the Nova music festival.If the goal was to spread awareness of Mr. Tijerina’s callousness, then he was successful.The human atrocities of 9/11 are not from a distant past — something we’ve only encountered in a history textbook. Real families are still grappling with the fallout. Husbands are still grieving fallen wives, and young adults are still grieving fallen fathers.It appears Mr. Tijerina targeted panels 70-71 of the memorial. Those are the names of the fallen employees from Windows on the World, the dining and entertainment complex from the top of the old World Trade Center North Tower. These weren’t the bankers and investors on the floors below — they were average Joes and Janes who just went to work on that pristine Tuesday morning.Mr. Tijerina defaced them anyway.He should rot in jail for a while. He probably won’t, while Alvin Bragg remains district attorney.The issue is much bigger than one dimwitted and attention-starved punk.We can (and should) draw a direct line from Mr. Tijerina’s stunt to the sacrilegious monument and statue vandalisms that were a staple of the 2020 Black Lives Matter riots.During that dreadful summer, the “1619 Riots” defaced or tore down statues of Christopher Columbus, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Ulysses S. Grant, Francis Scott Key, and countless others.Apparently, preserving the Union and ending slavery wasn’t even enough to satiate the anarchists: They went after Abraham Lincoln too.In 1861, the Great Emancipator praised “the mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land.” The nation was on the cusp of ruinous carnage, and Lincoln appealed to “the better angels of our nature.”It didn’t work. Fort Sumter was attacked just over a month later. But Lincoln had a profound point: A nation needs a shared memory and a shared consciousness. It needs shared cultural touchstones, and it needs a shared sense of that which is sacred and that which is profane.Do we share any of those things today? Many on the left are summoning the worse angels of their nature to answer resoundingly: “No.”The left is now dominated by an anti-American movement that hates our history — even its most uncontroversial heroes, as the Washington and Lincoln defacements show.It hates our people — and perhaps especially our working and middle classes, as Mr. Tijerina’s Windows on the World Freudian slip proved.It hates all of it — and all of us.It rejects our particular “mystic chords of memory” for the Marxist fantasy of a universal revolution of the proletariat.It rejects our biblical inheritance for the unholy “red-green” stew of ersatz-religious wokeism and fanatical-religious Islamism.It rejects our constitutional order for what Lincoln, in an earlier 1838 speech, decried as the “mobocratic spirit.”In each era of American political, civic and cultural life, there is at least one defining divide. In Lincoln’s own time, the divide was between free and slave — between Union and secession.In our own era, the defining divide is between civilization and barbarism.There is a Third World-ist mind virus that is metastasizing like a cancer on the American left. The Third World-ists have nothing but scorn for the nation that is the economic, entrepreneurial and cultural envy of the whole world — the rest of the First World included.They want to tear it all down. And some of them, like Mr. Tijerina and the 2020 rioters, take that sentiment quite literally.The American right is far from perfect, but it is a basically pro-America, pro-Western movement.Given the stark dichotomy of the moment, that will hopefully be more than enough to prevail in the elections this Tuesday.Creators.com

Far Left’s Animus Toward America Faces Test in Midterm Voting

Far Left’s Animus Toward America Faces Test in Midterm Voting

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