Fascism was socialism restricted to the confines of a single national state, compared with classical Marxism which was supposed to be international, as in “workers of the world unite” etc. This is from Instapundit.

THEY’RE POWERFUL. THEY’RE NOT NECESSARILY SMART, AND THEY’RE CERTAINLY NOT WISE:

Those who think they like this new censorship really need to step back and take the long view. Conspiracy theories about taking down Donald Trump will go on for 100 years. All of these efforts at suppression will be woven and rewoven into these theories. Driving the theories off the front pages of social media will make them wilder and crazier, and we won’t be able to see them or argue with them. How many millions of serious devotees does Trump have? What will they do now? Why is depriving them of their Twitter connection a wholesome curative?

When you have the leaders of business implementing the political agenda of a political party against its opposition, that’s the definition of fascism.

The corporate state as it is otherwise known. Not that it will do you much good to know the kind of political entity the United States has become, but it is nevertheless useful to know.

BTW go to the story at the link and then read the comments.

Was the non-riot on the Capitol staged by Antifa? Sounds plausible. We on the right are some of the stupidest political tacticians found anywhere. Will start with a post from Instapundit with the ones to follow picked up at Lucianne.com.

HMM: Worrisome Signs the Capitol Breach was Planned to Discredit Trump Supporters: An Eyewitness Account. Related: Actions by Police Before Trump Supporters Attacked Capitol Backfired Spectacularly: Federal and local law enforcement say they underestimated threat posed to Congress, despite evidence of plans online. “Policing tactics in the U.S. have changed in the seven months since George Floyd was killed by Minneapolis police, sparking nationwide protests last year. In Portland, Ore., months of nightly demonstrations escalated after President Trump sent in federal agents to protect a federal courthouse. In a letter to federal officials on Monday, Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser urged federal law enforcement to maintain a light footprint for Wednesday’s protests, seeking to avoid the type of show of force that had inflamed tense situations in the city last year.” To be fair to law enforcement here, Trump protests have traditionally been very orderly and well-behaved.

January 6, 2020, a Day that Will Live in Political Infamy American Thinker, by Steve McCann – Original Article – I attended the “Million MAGA March” on January 6, along with the Mainstreet Patriots chapter of the Eastern Shore of Maryland. (Snip) As we were able to position ourselves within 75 yards of the entrance [to the Capitol], we noticed that among a large cadre of what appeared to be young Trump supporters there were many frankly stereotypical Antifa-looking militants waving Trump flags on the steps attempting to get to the doors as the useless barriers of portable and plastic fencing had been easily breached. These militants were at the entrance area before Trump’s speech at the Ellipse (two miles away) was finished.

Left’s Hypocrisy On Full Display After D.C. ‘Insurrection’Issues & Insights, by The Editorial Board Original Article The angry election fraud protest that led to the temporary takeover of the U.S. Capitol Wednesday perfectly illuminates the hypocrisy of the Democratic far left when it comes to political violence. Republican officials and rank-and-file GOP conservatives immediately and forcefully condemned the pro-Trump rioters. Nothing unusual about that: During this riot-torn year, Republicans have consistently, loudly and frequently denounced violence, no matter who did it. What about the Democrats and their extreme-left supporters? Tragically, for them, violence is always acceptable when it’s in service to their cause. That’s especially true since the riots and mass protests began in late May

Here Comes the Crackdown Red State, by Nick Arama Original Article After the Capitol protest/riot occurred, I said to my colleagues the folks on the left will use it to go after President Donald Trump, Republicans and Trump supporters in general. They will use it to justify a crack down on social media and other arenas. That’s already coming to pass and it only happened yesterday. They’re calling to ban anyone who went into the building from plane travel. From Washington Examiner: “Given the heinous domestic terrorist attack on the U.S. Capitol yesterday, I am urging the Transportation Security Administration and the Federal Bureau of Investigation to use their authorities to add the names

Trump Supporters Take Stock of Jan. 6, Feel Mischaracterized by Media Epoch Times, by Charlotte Cuthbertson Original Article WASHINGTON—Empty streets and a subdued atmosphere characterized Washington on Jan. 7 as Trump supporters processed the events of the previous day and the certification of the Electoral College votes by Congress overnight. (Snip) Marine veteran Tony Good traveled from Florida and walked to the Ellipse to hear President Donald Trump speak in the morning. He said Trump didn’t incite violence in his speech.“No, absolutely not. There’s a line between inciting to riot and standing on convictions,” Good told The Epoch Times. “He wasn’t telling anybody to riot, he was just telling them it’s our right to protest. That’s a right we have in America.”

Michelle Obama chastises ‘infantile and unpatriotic’ Trump over Capitol riots NBC News, by Randi Richardson Original Article Michelle Obama chastised President Donald Trump over Wednesday’s riots at the Capitol, calling him “infantile and unpatriotic” before delivering an emotional critique of how police responded to the mob as compared to this summer’s Black Lives Matter protests. In a statement posted to social media on Thursday, the former first lady said the riots were a “fulfillment of the wishes of an infantile and unpatriotic president who can’t handle the truth of his own failures.” Trump supporters descended on the Capitol on Wednesday after the president delivered a speech at a rally against the election results, falsely claiming

We Ain’t Going To Submit and We Won’t Forget Gateway Pundit, by Larry Johnson Original Article After four years of a sustained coup attempt to destroy the Presidency of Donald Trump, the Washington establishment now wants us, the deplorables, to sit down, shut up and accept a steal. Here’s a news flash. We will not. This is no longer about ensuring that Donald Trump, who won the election, remains as President. The issue is more profound. It is the preservation of our Republic and a demand for genuine accountability and fairness.As I listen to the howls of faux outrage by a plethora of Democrat, Republican, media and Silicon Valley tech giants condemning any Trump supporter who dares speak out to challenge the election fraud

ABC News: ‘Getting Rid of Trump Easy Part’; ‘Cleansing’ America of ‘Movement He
Commands’ Something Else Red State, by Mike Miller Original Article In the aftermath of the pro-Trump siege of the U.S. Capitol Building on Wednesday, ABC News Political Director Rick Klein is calling for a “cleansing” of the Trump “movement,” across America. Getting rid of Trump “is the easy part,” Klien tweeted; getting rid of the movement Trump “commands” is another. “Trump will be an ex-president in 13 days. The fact is that getting rid of Trump is the easy part. Cleansing the movement he commands is going to be something else.” “Cleansing the movement”? Just me, or does that sound a tad too close to “cleansing” Adolf Hitler and the Nazis from post-WWII Germany? The following tweet became “unavailable”

‘Mr. Bean’ Star Rowan Atkinson Compares Cancel Culture to a ‘Medieval Mob Looking for Someone to Burn’ Breitbart, by Hannah Bleau Original Article British actor Rowan Atkinson veered from the leftist views embraced by the bulk of those in the entertainment industry and ripped into cancel culture, describing it as the “digital equivalent of the medieval mob roaming the streets looking for someone to burn.” “The problem we have online is that an algorithm decides what we want to see, which ends up creating a simplistic, binary view of society,” the Mr. Bean actor said in an interview with the U.K.’s Radio Times. “It becomes a case of either you’re with us or against us. And if you’re against us, you deserve to be ‘canceled.’”

Victory over Donald Day, that is. And how LIQ does glory in his Beta-male soy-boy triumph: Biggest Loser he calls the President. I have combed through his post, and the comments of all those who take the same side, and have yet to find an argument. It is true that Donald Trump will not be President at the end of this month and Joe Biden will be. Why that is a good thing has yet to be explained, and so far as I can tell, cannot be explained unless;

• the aim is for America to sign the Paris Accords
• the aim is for Iran to have nuclear weapons
• the aim is to make wearing masks a permanent feature across the United States
• the aim is to wreck small business
• the aim is to create a permanent underclass of unemployed welfare recipients.

I’m sure there are other reasons I am missing, but these will do for now.

The one certainty I have is that the President did not wish to see anyone invading Capitol Hill. And there is mounting evidence that it was Antifa that led that particular charge, as  in this: Former FBI Agent on the Ground at US Capitol Says at Least One Bus Load of Antifa Thugs Infiltrated Trump Demonstration. I can imagine that this was something that the media-Democrat alliance would have been happy to see, which is why it is actually reported in the press and on the news.

If it is really true that an Antifa leader really did take the photo of the one fatality in the protest inside the Capitol – Why Was Founder Of Far-Left BLM Group Filming Inside Capitol As Police Shot Protester? – then the issue is settled. But to be honest, it doesn’t matter at all if it was entirely a pro-Trump  crowd inside the building. They were not sent there by the President.

So now we have VD Day, where these toxic fools can revel in their triumph over good policy, personal freedom and the American Constitution. They really are toxic imbeciles with not an argument available other than the wish to have power in their hands so that the Hunter Bidens and Hillary Clintons of the world can profit at our expense. As for policy, these people have not a thing to add to the debate.

Of course, the supreme good was he prevented Hilary from being president for the past four years. And he revealed how vile the Deep State is, although much good knowing it now will do us. And he ought to have shown us that the media are completely untrustworthy, but instead taught us how stupid most people are about the source of their freedoms and prosperity given how willing they were to be led down garden paths. But he still has friends, aside from me, who will remember Donald Trump as the greatest, bravest President of our lifetime. You are guaranteed never to see his like again no matter how young you are or how long you live. You have witnessed the fall of the American Republic and its replacement with a fascist state. Here is a sample among those who have stayed the course.

Sarah Hoyt

AGAIN, THE QUESTION IS, WHAT ELSE COULD AMERICANS DO? WHAT OTHER AVENUE DID THEY LEAVE US?  The crowd in the Capitol. For years I’ve told the left that when they used fraud to win, they’d broken the feedback mechanism.  It didn’t mean their ideas were winning, that people agreed with them, or that they were safe. It was the equivalent of breaking the fire alarm and thinking they were safe from fires. What I never expected was to hear the right condemn the people trying to break out of the burning building, because they don’t hear any fire alarms.

Ace of Spades

Good morning, kids. Wednesday and as we had all dreaded – although it’s not official – the two senate seats in Georgia are about to be stolen. Yet again, as I have no doubt that had the presidential election not been stolen from us nine weeks ago, those two seats would have been clearly won that night as well. And just like nine weeks ago, the vote counting has been stopped for the night in Chatham County, which I believe includes the city of Savannah, where our friend Jane D’Oh lives. No doubt she is either in a drunken stupor or tearing her hair out while no doubt, pallets of clean crisp ballots are being trucked in all neatly checked off next to the names of Ossoff and Warnock. Who is to blame for this, along with what happened on Election Day? Or put another way, which is worse; the Enemy who with malice aforethought rigged the election with the direct or indirect help of the Communist Chinese via a biological/psychological weapon in the form of a virus as a pretext to allow mass ballot dumping, or the Republican Party that did nothing to stop them before, during and after the fact, and then screamed bloody murder at anyone who complained? Whatever happens with this fiasco, and then another potential fiasco in Congress starting today with at least some decent souls standing up and objecting to the Electoral College results, America as we knew it and loved it, or at least perceived it is gone.

PDT SPEAKING TODAY

The Americans have decided that freedom and democracy doesn’t work for them so they’re going to try something else. From What comes after Georgia?:

As I write this, it appears that Raphael Warnock, an anti-American, pro-Marxist, anti-Semitic, anti-white Democrat who has credible accusations of spousal and child abuse against him, won. Meanwhile, with Perdue and Ossoff tied, counting has stopped in Chatham County. We know what that means. They’re finding votes for Ossoff, a leftist nonentity. As matters now stand, despite Trump’s overwhelming coattails on down-ballot votes across America, Biden is poised to take the White House, the Democrats will control the Senate, and Nancy Pelosi and her squad are the Queen and princesses of the House. We are facing a hard-left, one-party federal government.

Land of the free and the home of the brave. /s

Let me also add this which has added to my despondent mood. In reply to my Christmas/New Year note, I received a reply from one of my favourite cousins, second cousin actually, since his mother and my mother were first cousins. We were born weeks apart and went to University together and he is the absolute nicest chap. And he wrote among other things:

The City of Toronto devised an advertising campaign, aimed at the 18-35 age group, trying to convince them to wear a mask, distance, etc. We found one, attempting humour, to be particularly egregious: a buff young man with a tee-shirt that reads “The new normal sucks–let’s get back to the old normal.” Do we really want the “old normal” of gross and growing income inequality, homelessness and hunger crises, unpaid internships (if lucky) and job insecurity, social and racial injustice, etc. etc? Rather, we should be working for a “better normal for everyone”. Interestingly, none of the politicians or newspapers I wrote to deigned to respond…. I don’t do very much at all in the academic vein, although I keep an eye on water and climate change issues. In fact, we were overseas for 3 weeks just this time last year, because I was invited to participate in a climate change workshop and give a couple of seminars.

Everyone wants to be Mr (and Ms) Niceperson. They will eat you alive, I’m afraid, but only our children will live to see it fully unfold.