Conservatives are not falling for the popular new kid in school who has made protesting cool again.
Just as their forefathers exposed the Civil Rights Movement as the insidious Communist plot it was in the 1950s and 1960s, contemporary conservatives are revealing the sinister Marxist conspiracy animating the hordes of dupes in the streets who imagine they are protesting against the wildly disproportionate killings of black people by police.
In the same brilliant fashion that Civil Rights era conservatives pointed out that the brutal discrimination blacks faced in virtually every sphere of life could not possibly have explained the protests of that time, modern conservatives have deftly shown that the Groundhog Day carousel of grisly police murders of black people cannot in and of itself clarify the ongoing inundation of the nation’s streets with protesters of all colors and ages.
Conservatives have naturally turned to that dear old chestnut communism, which was so helpful in deciphering the conundrum of why black people would mobilize against the systematic discrimination against them in voting, housing, public accommodations, education, employment and courts of law during the Civil Rights era.
Just as arch-conservative and John Birch Society founder Robert Welch accused the Civil Rights Movement of being a communist plot to establish a “Soviet-Negro Republic” with Martin Luther King, Jr. as president, the conservative Washington Times points out today that “the hair-trigger harpies screaming obscenities in the faces of police officers attempting to keep the peace, the masked bullies yanking down statues of historical figures, the hooded guerrillas hurling Molotov cocktails — all are putting Marxist ideology into action.”
Today’s conservatives know that the Communists running the BLM, just like the vicious apparatchiks who integrated lunch counters and bus depots and registered black voters in the South in the 1960s, have all the levers of power at their disposal to terrorize helpless, real Americans.
Tucker Carlson, who compared Black Lives Matter protesters to armed white thugs who tried to prevent school integration in Arkansas in 1957, wonders wistfully why the Justice Department will not impose a nationwide Lafayatte Square style crackdown on the protests. “That might make all the difference, and it would certainly make the political career of the person who does it.”
Where is Bull Connor when you need him?