I’ll tell you exactly why I do that. There’s a reason, and it’s not what you think.

For years – actually, for most of the life of this blog – I would carefully write something like “leftists and Democrats” or more often “liberals and leftists” (and sometimes I’d add “and the MSM”) in order to distinguish and point out exactly what I was talking about. This invariably would engender criticism and a big back and forth in the comments to the effect of “Why do you say that? Why not just call them all ‘leftists,’ because there’s hardly any distinction anymore and if you vote for a ‘Democrat’ that’s a euphemism and what you always get is leftist policies. So just call them all ‘leftists’ cause that’s essentially what they are.”

So now that’s what I’ve decided to do. Because that’s what they all are.

And now I get the opposite criticism. 🙂

Because there are some on the left, like Bernie!, who don’t call themselves Democrats.

But if the Left gets blamed, that allows voters to keep voting for “the good Dems”.

Democrats should be blamed. Democrat policies should be blamed. Voters who vote Democrat should be blamed — and laughed at for voting Democrat.

We should be using “Democrat” wherever there is a bad public policy which is in place, like NYC, with a Dem mayor. Or NY State, with a Dem governor. (Or do I have to literally spell it out – Democrat?)

Only if Reps win elections will the rot in America be reduced.

During the 1992 Rodney King riots in Los Angeles, this happened:

Four thousand Army soldiers and Marines sent to quell the recent week’s civil disorders were sent home Saturday from riot-scarred Los Angeles, leaving the streets patrolled by National Guard units and a battle-weary police force demoralized by public bickering over their readiness and performance during the unrest.

Soon after the order to withdraw came from Washington about midday Saturday, a force of 2,500 Army troops were packing and boarding transport planes for flights back to their base at Ft. Ord. At the same time, about 1,500 Marines were convoyed south in trucks to Camp Pendleton.

Thousands of National Guard troops remained in the city, and though only a handful were visible in the caravans of Humvees that had overrun much of downtown and South Los Angeles in recent days, more than 9,000 stood by in the event of more violence.

City officials indicated that they expect the Guard to stay at least a few more days before beginning to pull out of Los Angeles.

(2) What I agree with, on the other hand, is that any President needs to use extreme care about ordering military forces to confront American citizens (even TWANLOC) because it sets a very bad precedent.
Given that several presidents have, in fact, done so (lists are floating around the web), the case for force needs to be so clear and so compelling, and so urgent, that the legitimacy of the order should not be questioned (it will be, of course; “should not” isn’t the same as “can not”).

There are many people in the right-wing blogosphere who are very confident that, if a Democrat president sends troops out to round up conservatives, the soldiers would disobey. However, that is not a bet I would choose to make, especially in the current partisan circus.
Troops that would obey orders to fire on Antifa arsonists would also fire on Constitutionalists perceived (even if just by the governing party) to be endangering life or property.

See https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/06/former-trump-secdef-mattis-joins-resistance-blasts-president-handling-riots-nazi-slur/

We know that we are better than the abuse of executive authority that we witnessed in Lafayette Square. We must reject and hold accountable those in office who would make a mockery of our Constitution.

Sentence 1 conflates rioters with peaceful protestors.
Sentence 2 was never uttered by Mattis about the Obama/FBI/CIA spying on Trump.

Richard Saunders: As a young man John Lewis was a Freedom Rider during the Civil Rights movement and that meant something.

However, I’m not going to forget that he was one of the black congressmen who lied that the Tea Party used the N-word against them. As far as I’m concerned, Lewis is just another race hustler these days. And he’s still at it.

Note also that neither Lewis or any of the People’s Commisariat of Propaganda (aka MSM) have mentioned that the National Guard is part of the U.S. military, and that the President may federalize them, which many presidents have done in cases of riot.

Oh, well, 2 + 2 = 5, and we have always been at war with Oceania.