On Thanksgiving, on Thursday, we gave thanks for everything that brings purpose and meaning to our lives. That’s a valuable day of reflection, a day that should matter to every American. But this Friday, commonly known as “Black Friday” for its sometimes wild opening of the Christmas shopping season, is also a day when we have to think about the upcoming cost of keeping all those things we’re thankful for, like our country.
If you’re reading my work here, you may know that I’m not overly optimistic about the immediate future. My readings of history and my sense of the mood of Americans tell me something is coming, some seminal event that may well change everything. Why? Because something is building. If you keep track of the news, the comments, the rhetoric, you can sense it. Something is simmering here in the United States of America. At present, it’s barely bubbling, the heat low, but it’s slowly rising.
Here at RedState, we’ve been covering the recent shooting in the nation’s capital. It was a horrible thing, and it seems to have been a premeditated attack, an Islamic terror attack by a committed jihadi. There is no small amount of anger over this event, just as there has been over several other high-profile hate-driven attacks in recent months.
One of those National Guardsmen is dead. A young woman, a girl, really, of 20, Sarah Beckstrom, with her whole life ahead of her. A promising young life was snuffed out by a jihadi nutcase who was brought into the country by the United States government.
This was only the latest in a series of horrors.
There were, last year, two – not one, but two – attempted assassinations of a former president and current (then) presidential candidate, one of which came within a literal hair’s breadth of killing him; some among the left are still muttering, “Too bad, it missed.”
There were shots fired into an ICE detention in Texas. ICE officers going about their lawful duty have been assaulted, their personal information sought out, and their families threatened.
There have been horrible crimes committed against Americans by people who never should have been here in the first place, who were casually allowed in by a presidential administration that not only didn’t prevent them from coming in, but which actively encouraged the influx. We remember the names of the victims, Jocelyn Nungaray, Rachel Morin, Laken Riley, and more. And the anger is building.
And, of course, there was Charlie Kirk, killed by a leftist convert, acting with a twisted version of the zeal of the converted.
People are angry. At each such event, the anger grows deeper. It stays longer. It’s simmering now, in the countryside, in the cities, on the highways, and on the urban sidewalks. It comes from those high-profile events, but it also comes from many other sources.
People are growing angry about the crime. People are growing angry about the government’s endless acceptance of refugees from everywhere, with many of those refugees being dropped casually into small cities that don’t have the resources to deal with the influx. People are growing angry with these refugees, eventually taking over entire sections of these cities – see Minneapolis, Minnesota, see Dearborn, Michigan. These are not issues of race; these are issues of culture, of tens, hundreds of thousands of people dropped into the United States who have no intention of assimilating, of learning the language, of adopting our culture, of becoming American.
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The far left has been pushing a dangerous rhetoric, playing a dangerous game. They are poking a bear, and as any Alaskan can tell you, poking a bear is something that you don’t want to do. They are dehumanizing not only the right but everyone who isn’t loudly, vocally part of the far left. They are driving a wedge into the heart of our country, and the rest of us, the people who would rather not be angry, who would rather just live our lives, take care of our families, build our homes, are growing angry.
There’s an anger in the country, simmering, slowly coming to a boil. What happens when it boils over?
The left has been pushing, pushing this for months, for years. They vilify Republicans, they call us fascists, they call us Nazis, they call us racists. Sooner or later, the rest of the people, the rest of us, will decide we’ve had enough. The rest of us will decide, no more burned businesses, no more murdered women, no more judges letting criminals run free after 10, 30, 60 arrests. No more unchecked thousands of “asylum-seekers” from every third-world hellhole on the planet. No more.
But the far left won’t give up. They won’t stop. They will escalate. Sooner or later, the rest of us, the great silent majority, will decide, fine, we’ll match you, tactic for tactic, blow for blow.
And there’s the end.
