The riotous mobs are the Democrats latest Confederacy

Ken Masugi:

Before the Mount Rushmore giants, President Trump became the voice of reason, justice, and unity, of Martin Luther King, and of patriotic Americans against today’s Confederates—the rioters of 2020—and of today’s Tories, the mainstream media and their elite academic masters. Trump reaffirmed the revolution of 1776 against the oldest as well as the contemporary enemies of America.

His was not the “dark” or “divisive” speech of MSM propaganda—at least no more than the Declaration of Independence, which we joyously celebrate with festivities and fireworks. Trump is now the Declaration’s principal guardian against those who promote their own tyranny as the new order and bless mob violence. He would preserve the American way of life.

The enemies of the great Americans extolled by Trump are as alien to the best in America as the Confederates of 1861. While their hypocritical pleas against racism make them appear to be anti-Confederacy, their anti-American argument in fact aligns with the nihilism of the Confederacy, its rejection of the equality of the Declaration: Be neither a master nor a slave. “Some know exactly what they are doing,” Trump declared of the mob—in the most incisive line of the evening.

The violent mayhem we have seen in the streets and cities that are run by liberal Democrats in every case is the predictable result of years of extreme indoctrination and bias in education, journalism, and other cultural institutions. Against every law of society and nature, our children are taught in school to hate their own country and to believe that the men and women who built it were not heroes but that they were villains.

That hatred is what the Confederacy bore Lincoln and the Union. The same supercilious sophistication and aristocratic snootiness toward “deplorables” characterized the Southern aristocrats of the slavocracy—in relation to the middle and working class elements of both North and South. Thus Trump can consistently defend the valor of those Americans who fought for the South against today’s New Confederate mob.

Like all great American presidents do when confronted with such a crisis, Trump reverts to the Declaration of Independence and notes how this establishes both a dividing and a uniting principle. The rioters and their enablers fall on the wrong side of both lines. In its central principle that “All men are created equal,” the Declaration of Independence of “1776 represented the culmination of thousands of years of Western civilization and the triumph of not only spirit, but of wisdom, philosophy, and reason.” And the consequence today: “Many of these [rioters] have no idea why they’re doing this, but some know what they are doing” (emphasis added).

Our nation is witnessing a merciless campaign to wipe out our history, defame our heroes, erase our values, and indoctrinate our children. Angry mobs are trying to tear down statues of our founders, deface our most sacred memorials, and unleash a wave of violent crime in our cities. Many of these people have no idea why they’re doing this, but some know what they are doing.

The attacks on Washington, Jefferson, and other founders amount to a defense of tyranny. The rioters and “some [who] know what they are doing” are the Tory defenders of the tyrannical order Americans revolted against.

Those who seek to erase our heritage want Americans to forget our pride and our great dignity so that we can no longer understand ourselves or America’s destiny. In toppling the heroes of 1776, they seek to dissolve the bonds of love and loyalty that we feel for our country and that we feel for each other. Their goal is not a better America, their goal is to end America.

The battle involves not the old military-industrial complex but the intellectual-political complex we know as Progressivism. In Trump’s discerning view “Against every law of society and nature, our children are taught in school to hate their own country and to believe that the men and women who built it were not heroes but that were villains.” The new Confederates would defy both tradition and nature in their fanatical lust for power. This is the collapse of heritage that President Reagan warned us about in his farewell speech. Of presidents following Reagan only Trump calls out “the new far-left fascism that demands absolute allegiance,” and its demands of persecution that follow, ranging in penalties from social isolation to criminal prosecution.
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He also attacked the tyranny of the cancel culture whose refrain is "Shut up" if you say things they disagree with.  They are the handmaidens of the mobs and the barbarians trying to destroy the American civilization.

Standing up to the tyranny of the left is in the nation's interest.