Quote on Twitter: "I think that in about 3 weeks the press could get the average American to support a genocide."

Interesting article in NY Sun about the civil war in the Republican Party. 

Two views of reality: “National Review thinks we can make peace with the liberals in debates over principles and policies, but we can’t go too far lest they call us radicals. The other side thinks we are in a wartime situation: the left wants to destroy us. That is a large difference.”

Another said the big difference is that “National Review thinks its job is to police the right, while the hard right thinks that our job is to defeat the left...This is infuriating because the left has Hollywood, the media, and the tech industry. Imagine trying to take on all of that and then be criticized by people who are supposed to be on your own side.” 

When did others make the u-turn and move off the mainstream GOP reservation?  My guesses: 

Pat Buchanan: 1990 

Victor D. Hansen: 2010

Tucker Carlson: 2013

Eric Metaxas: 2015

Mollie Hemingway : 2017

J.D. Vance: 2018

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The problem with seeing the Left as an opponent of war is that it leads to further disintegration.  For example, the Left and the government will see the right as enemies of the state and thus feel well within their rights to punish and persecute the right. That is already happening with “lawfare” and judges who take it upon themselves to deny hard conservatives due process under the law.  

So you have to be sure before taking that plunge, especially with media, corporations, and government all against you. 

But on the other hand, to be in denial about what the Left wants is also dangerous. Being an ostrich has risks. To be naive towards Hitler in 1930s wasn’t a great strategy.

I don’t know what the answer is other than to pray and sacrifice that we get a religious revival. 

And the problem ever is always how to be angry with injustice and yet possess humility. 

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St Augustine writing around 400 A.D., may as well be 2021:

"For I know very well what efforts are needed to persuade the proud how great the power of humility is. But by humility we reach a height—a height not grasped by human arrogance but granted by divine grace—which transcends all these earthly pinnacles that totter with the shifts of time. . . . This belongs to God alone, but the inflated spirit of human pride strives to claim it for itself ...so I must also speak of the earthly city [of Rome]—the city which, when it seeks dominion, even though whole peoples are its slaves, is itself under the dominion of its very lust for domination."

We can see that with America. 

We once had sufficient humility not to go fight in the European war (WW1) until it was 3/4ths over.  Again in WW2, we waited over 2 long years before entering and then only after being attacked.  

We then had enough sense not to try to make the world in our image, not to try to be the utopian who would prefer to right every wrong (by killing). 

Now we positively itch for war - sometimes even starting them - whether it be Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, or now the drumbeats for Ukraine.  

The downfall of the U.S. is pride and the lack of respect for the limits of our power. (This even despite the continued demonstration of the weakness of that power - see Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan!) 

In our feverish desire for war, we’ve even made our economic co-dependence a weapon even though every Russian limb you cut off, you cut one off the rest of the world.