Erick Erickson:
Both the white nationalists and Antifa are moral degenerates who use political violence to advance their agenda. Antifa and the white nationalists are, in fact, kissing cousins, just as the Nazis and communists were. In fact, communist rhetoric has long called itself anti-fascist. The Berlin Wall was, in East Germany, officially called the Anti-Fascist Protection Barrier.
But the white nationalists and Antifa are pretty much the same, working at opposite ends of the political spectrum. One has a swastika. The other has a hammer and sickle. Both are symbols of repressive, murderous regimes.
The only significant difference is that members of the media and much of the political left give Antifa the veneer of moral crusade that no one gives the white nationalists. But Antifa does not deserve it. Time and time again, Antifa is violent and thuggish. They claim anyone they attack deserves it, just like the white nationalists claim minorities deserve it.
On Meet the Press two days ago, a Dartmouth professor tried to justify Antifa’s violence.
Eric Ericson was one of the 1st “Never-Trumpers.”
As such, he’d love for Trump supporters to look as bad as the worst of Antifa.
So, he’s looking to box in Trump supporters by this little gem:
FALSE DILEMMA.
FALLACY.
Everyone who supports Pres Trump can condemn white nationalists.
We don’t have to wait for “the left” to condemn Antifa first!
America has never been (and will never be) a white country.
The prejudices of white nationalists against other Americans who happen to be of color is ignorance.
It goes against all our founding documents as well as letters to and from our founders.
They (white nationalists) are as much caught up in an imaginary false history as Antifa is.
However, for themselves, they can feel free to marry whoever they wish and live in whatever neighborhood they can afford.
@Nanny G: The point here is that while conservatives condemn both based on the positions they take, the left merely condemns whoever stands against them. The left is more than glad to support, condone and justify ANTIFA, as ANTIFA is the violence arm of their operation.
Conservatives haven’t found the need for a violent arm until now, for self defense, and that need exists entirely because of ANTIFA. Meanwhile, the left either tries to look the other way or cheers them on with a rationale of imaginary enemies within the law abiding conservative right.
The left has lost it, given up on appealing to the general public with a vision of a better world and descending into a fascist world of brutality and intimidation. The problem is, when they are faced by an opponent, they prove not to be up to the task.
Every current member of the Democrat leadership should be disqualified from ever holding public office as they all, either through silent consent or vocal overt support, have endorsed violence as a viable political weapon in Constitutional America. That should be totally unacceptable.
What is unacceptable is that it is NOT unacceptable to the left.