The world needs more snipers taking out evil men (and, in some cases, perhaps, women).

}}} We need to demonstrate that the radical nihilist antisemitic evil Left is NOT a defining faction of America, or even a majority (I hope) of the liberal-left useful idiots.

There was a time when The Left had moderates. I don’t see it any more. The Left is all PostModern Liberals — at least 95% of them — as opposed to “classical” liberals.

They are the sort of liberal Truman referred to as “Professional” liberals:

Truman was particularly irked by the “professional liberal,” whom he distinguished from “real liberals” like himself. Professional liberals lived by slogans and saw American politics as an ideological war, which Truman considered alien to the genius of the Democratic party. In his lifetime the party was a sort of political melting pot in which conservative Southerners and moderate border-state men like Truman found common ground with Eastern liberals. “Professional liberals are too arrogant to compromise,” Truman said. “In my experience they were also very unpleasant people on a personal level. Behind their slogans about saving the world and sharing the wealth with the common man lurked a nasty hunger for power. They’d double-cross their own mothers to get it or keep it.”

https://www.americanheritage.com/eight-days-harry-truman

“Moderate” liberals are about as scarce on the ground as “Moderate” Muslims. Yes, they exist, but they are very thin on the ground…

It was, even if just to raise the click-count of this and similar stories.
We need to demonstrate that the radical nihilist antisemitic evil Left is NOT a defining faction of America, or even a majority (I hope) of the liberal-left useful idiots.
Alinsky rules: marginalize the opposition, because they are the fringe on the margin, for now, although metastasizing rapidly.

Encourage changers any way we can.

“Warfare by Immigration”—
https://americanmind.org/salvo/warfare-by-immigration/
H/T Powerline blog.
Key grafs:
‘…China’s support today of Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Islamic Republic of Iran demonstrates their role as leader of a global Communist movement, allied with the Islamic World, which seeks to destroy America and the West. They have little reason to doubt that they are winning. In London, 100,000 protestors, most of them Muslim immigrants, defended the attack by Hamas on Israel. American cities have seen similar displays.

‘ It bears repeating for this generation that the goal, now as then, is the destruction of the West. Israel was, and is, an outpost of the West and a defender of human freedom. Terrorist campaigns to destroy Israel were useful to animate certain parts of the Islamic world on behalf of the protracted war the Communists were waging against human freedom. These were once well-understood features of the ideological and political war between the Soviet Union and the United States. They have somehow been forgotten.

‘ Indeed, the very idea of the West has largely been abandoned. At its best, the West presented to the world an intellectual defense of freedom of the mind, freedom of religion, and the freedom of peoples to determine how they would govern themselves. It represented man’s highest aspirations….

‘ Although these beliefs are still held by the American people, they appear to have largely been rejected by U.S. elites. Witness the rejection of American principles in the modern university and the administrative state that runs our country.

‘ The difference between the Cold War and today is that the Soviets and the Chinese could not, back then, contemplate a United States that would open its borders to millions of people from all over the planet, regardless of their country of origin or political views. There was always immigration of course, including illegal immigration…. The opening of the U.S. border today reveals an America engaged in a kind of national suicide.

‘ Given such weakness, we should not then be surprised that America’s major cities and her capitol have been filled with protesters who march in solidarity with Hamas and their deadly attack on Israel. It makes no difference that these protests purport to be in support of the Palestinian cause. Their practical effect is the support of terrorism and murder….

‘ One of the first acts of the Biden Administration was to restore $200 million in funding to the Palestinian Authority, which had been cut off by the Trump Administration because it was being used to support the terrorist activities of Hamas. That fact will not be lost on any of these leftist groups. Nor will the fact that the Biden Administration facilitated billions of dollars in direct money transfers, oil sales, and forward contracts to Hamas’s central ally, the Islamic Republic of Iran, and Iran’s central ally, the Chinese Communist Party.

‘ The Biden Administration made the decision to support a global alliance led by Communist China that was antithetical to the interests of the United States. In so doing, President Biden has not only turned against one of America’s closest friends, the state of Israel, but has signaled to the Communist movements within the United States on whose side he stands. Needless to say, Israel must be prepared to go it alone under these circumstances….

‘ At an important level, the Biden Administration—–despite Joe Biden’s pronouncements about the need for greater U.S. support of Israel and his embrace of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu—–shares ideologically the broad animus that the pan-Islamic world has for the West in general and the United States and Israel in particular…. He has surrounded himself with a State Department and National Security Council who share the American Left’s disdain for what America represents. What else is to explain the support of Communist China, Iran, Hamas, and Hezbollah? And what is to explain the knowing importation of 5.1 million new illegal immigrants during the past two and a half years, on top of the 13 to 20 million illegal immigrants that were already here?….’
[All emphasis mine; Barry M.]

File under: Karl Schwab’s WTF/WEF

“Magazine scrubs sections of Jake Sullivan’s essay praising Biden’s performance in the Middle East”—
https://nypost.com/2023/10/25/news/magazine-scrubs-sections-of-national-security-adviser-jake-sullivans-essay-praising-bidens-performance-in-the-middle-east/

Gosh, would this be THE Jake Sullivan who mentioned not too long ago that the Middle East is currently the most peaceful it’s been in decades…thanks to the amazing “Biden”‘s iron grasp of ME policy…

“Hamas Killed My Wokeness;
“I’ve found a home on the progressive left for years—even after I noticed a common blind spot around Jewish issues. But the reaction to the murderous attacks on Israeli civilians was the final straw.”—
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/community/articles/hamas-slaughtered-wokeness
Key grafs:
(To tell you the truth, after reading the first two or three grafs, I’m not even sure it’s worth the time and effort…)

…Since, apparently, American troops can’t, per “Biden”, defend themselves.
(And NOT forgetting, either, “Biden”‘s sincere and concerted efforts to PROTECT American troops—and others—during the Afghanistan debacle…)

Opening grafs (to this gobsmackingly pernicious absurdity, the true intentions of which should be obvious):
“Israel has agreed to delay its impending ground invasion of Gaza until the U.S. can establish air defenses to protect U.S. troops throughout the region.
“The Pentagon has requested that Israel hold off until they can deploy nearly a dozen air-defense systems to the region, the Wall Street Journal first reported. The missile deployments, which are expected to be completed in the coming days, are intended to shield U.S. troops serving in Iraq, Syria, Kuwait, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates from enemy rockets and missiles….”

“Hold off” meaning what, exactly? (Forever and a day, perhaps?)

And Israel has, apparently, agreed…but two can play the same game…as in;
“No, we’re not invading…it’s just a ‘pre-invasion’…”

To be sure, “Biden” has some leverage that he can use.
The 64 quadrazillion dollar question: Will he allow Israel to force “his” hand?
(Foolish question: “he” already has…if not to the full extent “he” is prepared to go…to save Israel from itself, but OF COURSE!)

“Gaza resident reveals how Hamas prevents civilians from escaping northern Gaza;
“A Gaza resident who was told to leave before IDF strikes says Hamas is blocking roads and shooting those attempting to leave.”—
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/379205

Not that any of this should be surprising…
(or alas convincing…)

“On Israel, Biden Picks Up Where Obama Left Off”—
https://thefederalist.com/2023/10/25/on-israel-biden-picks-up-where-obama-left-off/
H/T Powerline blog.

My only quibble with the article is that “Biden” IS Obama…but this may be the headline writer’s fault and not Harsanyi’s.

“The Hamas One-Eyed Jack”—
https://twitter.com/vdhanson/status/1717256162134184256
H/T Powerline blog.
Concluding grafs (RTWT):
‘…So yes, much of the acclaim for Hamas is not just found in its ferocious barbarity, but also fueled by a feeling that the killers are “winning” the propaganda war. Thus their cowardly but useful idiots of the West increasingly ally with the “oppressed” oppressor that can both butcher and claim victimhood simultaneously—and not only get away with it, but win global support for it.

‘And this is all the more reason why Israel must crush and thereby humiliate Hamas—as a lesson to its numerous enemies that the price for butchering innocents will always be too steep for even mass murderers to pay.’

Professor Hanson clearly articulates why massive—and DECISIVE—“pedagogical” response is required in the current case.
And no, this point, is nowhere near understood by the usual suspects…