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Stand Up, Republicans
The American Mind (Claremont Institute) ^ | June 23, 2020 | Thomas D. Klingenstein and Ryan P. Williams

Posted on 06/30/2020 5:43:29 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks

According to recent polls, 65% of all Americans now support Black Lives Matter (BLM). Why do so many Americans support an “organization” that is avowedly dedicated to the proposition that America is evil and must be fundamentally transformed? Because the Republican establishment has made remarkably little effort to expose BLM as the revolutionary and totalitarian movement that it is.

Leading Republicans do not seem to understand that George Floyd’s death was the excuse for the current crisis, not the cause of it. The chaos in our streets—led by BLM, supported by Democrats, and propelled by higher education—is for all intents and purposes an effort to destroy the American way of life. Almost all Republicans, however, are stupefied, spectators to this tragedy.

“We’re trained Marxists,” Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors has proudly admitted. On CNN just the other day, Cullors said emphatically, “Our goal is to get Trump out”—not in November, but “immediately.” BLM is on record in 2016 marching to the tune of “Pigs in a blanket. Fry ’Em Like Bacon! KILL THE COPS.” Today, BLM is the drum major in the Democrats’ band. BLM calls for the destruction of our history and the traditional family, the dismantling of “cisgender privilege,” open borders, reparations, socialism, and of course, abolishing the police. When Biden and “mainstream” Democrats get off their knees, they will not be able to resist falling into step.

Unlike Democrats, Republicans do not kneel before their captors, but they are certainly not standing up to them. Republicans denounce BLM’s extremes (the violence and police defunding), but they leave unchallenged its central goal: the destruction of the American way of life. As the poll numbers attest, BLM is succeeding and stands virtually unopposed. If it succeeds, it will be fatal to America.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Editorial; Philosophy; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: antifa; blm; claremontinstitute; democrats; dumpsterfire; gop; insurrection; marxists; radicals; revolution; ryanpwilliams; thomasdklingenstein; trump
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1 posted on 06/30/2020 5:43:29 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
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Why, because of the propaganda that us being produced.


2 posted on 06/30/2020 5:48:20 PM PDT by Retvet (Retvet)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
> Unlike Democrats, Republicans ...

I can't get past the author not understanding that there is no difference between D.C. Republicans and Democrats, that's how Trump won in the first place...

3 posted on 06/30/2020 5:48:44 PM PDT by SecondAmendment (This just proves my latest theory ... LEFTISTS RUIN EVERYTHING)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

The polls are fake


4 posted on 06/30/2020 5:48:45 PM PDT by vigilante2 (Make liberals cry again)
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To: vigilante2

People are scared to say they don’t support BLM


5 posted on 06/30/2020 5:49:43 PM PDT by Borges
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Some of it that the media and liberals would have a complete meltdown if anyone criticized the Black Lives Matter organization. They would say it’s racist to criticize the organization. The fact that you can believe that black lives matter, lower case letters, but not support the Black Lives Matter organization, capital letters of the name of the organization, would not be discussed. Instead the media and liberals would pile on that any criticism means you are a racist.

And part of it, is that this culture has become so damn politically correct, so people are afraid to broach this subject.

65% would not Support the Black Lives Matter organization if they knew it was Marxist. But there is fear of being called out as racist if you don’t support the organization.


6 posted on 06/30/2020 5:50:31 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Why do so many Americans support an “organization” that is avowedly dedicated to the proposition that America is evil and must be fundamentally transformed?

Don't know how a supporter of President Trump (the acknowledged Brander-in-Chief) can ask that with a straight face: It's in the NAME! They seized the brand and are holding it.
7 posted on 06/30/2020 5:51:31 PM PDT by Retrofitted
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Didnt call me but NO!


8 posted on 06/30/2020 5:52:15 PM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

They say they support BLM, but they may not even know what BLM really stands for and believes in.

Burning
Looting
Mayhem

is not what most people support


9 posted on 06/30/2020 5:53:17 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents|Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

It’s odd that this article is on a website called “The American Mind” when there is no evidence of any functioning mind having been involved in writing this article.

Mainstream Republicans might not be bowing to BLM, but they share BLM’s primary goal of getting Trump out of office and ultimately acquiescing to a UN led Global Government, of course with lots of perks and pork for the loyal opposition.

This is the same happy horseshit about “spineless Republicans” we’ve been hearing since Trump got elected. It’s getting old.


10 posted on 06/30/2020 5:54:03 PM PDT by Junk Silver (If we're "all in this together" name one government employee or bureaucrat who has been laid off.)
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To: Borges

“People are scared to say they don’t support BLM.”

This is true, especially if you live in a free standing house.

On Election Day, what will BLM do, send one of their thugs into the voting booth with you? In some cities, that’s possible.


11 posted on 06/30/2020 5:55:45 PM PDT by elcid1970 ("Pres. Trump doesn't wear glasses. That's because he's got 2020.")
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To: vigilante2

“According to recent polls, 65% of all Americans now support Black Lives Matter”

1. MSM has done a great job of hiding what BLM actually is.
2. Most people are so intimidated that they don’t have the stones to oppose
BLM.
It’s a good thing I am retired because I would not survive. I just could not help myself. By now I would have said what I thought of the Marxist bastards and I would be out the door.


12 posted on 06/30/2020 5:56:29 PM PDT by iamgalt
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

So when I explain to a local official about the Manifesto of BLM, inc. Redistribution of wealth, reparations ($9T), they admit to being Trained Marxist. I got,”you’re Red Baiting.”


13 posted on 06/30/2020 5:57:42 PM PDT by griswold3 (Democratic Socialism is Slavery by Mob Rule)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

We have reached the incredible place where telling the truth is not allowed and doing so results in severe repercussions.

I know it has happened many times before but not in America.


14 posted on 06/30/2020 5:58:41 PM PDT by yarddog ( For I am persuaded.)
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To: Borges

“People are scared to say they don’t support BLM”

For a reason. Working-age people see Corporate America, even NASCAR! dropping to their knees as fast as they can to Virtue Signal that they are Woke too. They are afraid to lose their jobs. Even in the churches, you have Woke Pastors and Priests kowtowing to the mob.
Iread today about a BBQ joint that agreed to cter to a Blue Lives Matter event. They declined after agreeing. Why? Because the BLM/Antifa mob sent them a message that their business will be burnt to the ground if they cater to the Blue Lives Matter event.


15 posted on 06/30/2020 5:59:17 PM PDT by ocrp1982
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To: SecondAmendment

It took 2 people to write this ‘article’; that’s a dead giveaway.


16 posted on 06/30/2020 5:59:27 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

The polls are quite the opposite of what I am seeing. There is a very pro American, anti BLM movement that is coming alive and many Black Americans are at the forefront.


17 posted on 06/30/2020 6:02:03 PM PDT by Ajnin (Don't be a pansy, embrace the fireball.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Because half the Republicans are stupid, and the other half doesn’t care.


18 posted on 06/30/2020 6:05:12 PM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isnÂ’t common anymore.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

So BLM is Marxist.
Wasn’t Karl Marx a ....white guy?
I guess some white guys are more equal than others.

The white guys who wrote the constitution shackled the government so that it couldn’t bar free speech, free opinion, free worship, freedom to protest peacefully, etc. the things these jokers are using?

Karl Marx and Lenin would have had them executed.


19 posted on 06/30/2020 6:06:10 PM PDT by TheGreatFazool (The Great Fazool)
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To: elcid1970
On Election Day, what will BLM do, send one of their thugs into the voting booth with you? In some cities, that’s possible.

I expect the intimidation factor on Election Day to be extreme.

20 posted on 06/30/2020 6:17:34 PM PDT by CatOwner
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