Jeffrey Blehar: The Dallas ICE Attach; and: Media Strangely Silent About "Stochastic Terrorism" on the Left

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   As always: both sides have their psychos. This stuff only tells us so much. It could and sometimes does happen on the right as well...etc.

   But it is hardly a surprise that these things are happening on the left. The left went insane 10-12 years ago. Its insanity has been its defining characteristic for a decade. Somehow, it went even crazier ca. 2020-2023.

   One aspect of its insanity--or we could say: the insanity of its vocal vanguard--has been to ceaselessly shriek about its opponents on the right being Nazis and Fascists and white supremacists and all the rest. It's also managed to convince itself that politically incorrect speech either causes violence or constitutes violence--they can't make up their minds on that one. Both, I guess... And calls for violence against "Nazis" (which is the Newspeak term for you and me), ICE, Trump, Charlie Kirk, Ben Shapiro, J.K. Rowling, Elong Musk, the Border Patrol, the National Guard, police, and, well, just about anybody they disagree with have become so common on the blue team as to now be almost unremarkable.

   Anyway: though this sort of thing could have happened on the right, it didn't--and it's less likely to. Because the right is not under the control of a shrieking cult of lunatics. The right didn't make a pact with a gibbering pack of unhinged anarcho-communist deviants. The right has its own problems...but it's time for the remaining shreds of the respectable left to face a fact that they've never been able to face before: sometimes you are the bad guys. And eventually the little bits of crazy you tolerate in order to remain a member of your tribe in good standing add up to such a point that they become full-fledged political insanity.

   And: if, when leftists started killing people, the left had responded with unqualified condemnation...that would have been one thing. Instead, what we've got from them has been heroification and ecstatic ululation. Not to mention, in some cases, sex-symbolification. In the case of Charlie Kirk--while we did see mostly condemnation from less-radical organizations--we saw an astonishing degree of joy and approval. Even cavorting in the face of mourners and destruction of memorial displays.... 

And calls for more of the same. An astonishing number of One down, n to go-type reactions. 

ICE is already being routinely attacked. And the left stokes the attacks by representing ICE as storm troopers dragging off American citizens and splitting up families.

I've said this many times, but: I've seen a lot crazy in American politics in my life.

But I've never seen it this bad before.