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*Communist terrorists besiege federal courthouse in [[Portland]].<ref>https://katu.com/news/local/portland-police-declare-riot-after-demonstrators-target-federal-courthouse</ref>

*Communist terrorists besiege federal courthouse in [[Portland]].<ref>https://katu.com/news/local/portland-police-declare-riot-after-demonstrators-target-federal-courthouse</ref>

*[[Matt Tiabbii]] of ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' magazine writes:

*[[Matt Tiabbii]] of ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' magazine writes:

{{quotebox|"It’s the Fourth of July, and revolution is in the air.  

{{quotebox|'''It’s the Fourth of July, and revolution is in the air. '''

Only in America would it look like this: an elite-sponsored Maoist revolt, couched as a Black liberation movement whose canonical texts are a corporate consultant’s white guilt self-help manual, and a New York Times series rewriting history to explain an election they called wrong.

Only in America would it look like this: an elite-sponsored [[Maoist]] revolt, couched as a [[Black liberation movement]] whose [[canonical text]]s are a corporate consultant’s white guilt self-help manual, and a ''[[New York Times]]'' series rewriting history to explain an election they called wrong.

The people who run this country have run out of workable myths with which to distract the public, and in a moment of extreme crisis have chosen to stoke civil war and defame the rest of us – black and white – rather than admit to a generation of corruption, betrayal, and mismanagement.

The people who run this country have run out of workable myths with which to distract the public, and in a moment of extreme crisis have chosen to stoke civil war and defame the rest of us – black and white – rather than admit to a generation of corruption, betrayal, and mismanagement.

Colleagues in news media had always reveled in the power to police the boundaries of national politics.  

Colleagues in news media had always reveled in the power to police the boundaries of national politics.  

Former [[ABC]] reporter Mark Halperin* (henceforth canceled people will be marked here with asterisks, for shorthand purposes) used to cheerfully refer to a handful of pollsters, pundits, and pols he called the “Gang of 500 who set the political agenda for the country.”

Former [[ABC]] reporter [[Mark Halperin]]* (henceforth canceled people will be marked here with asterisks, for shorthand purposes) used to cheerfully refer to a handful of pollsters, pundits, and pols he called the “Gang of 500 who set the political agenda for the country.”

Trump broke the brains of America’s educated classes.  

'''Trump broke the brains of America’s educated classes. '''

Like Russian aristocrats who spent the last days of the Tsarist empire flocking to fortune-tellers and mystics, upscale blue-staters have lost themselves lately in quasi-religious tracts like White Fragility, and are lining up to flog themselves for personal and historical sins.

Like Russian aristocrats who spent the last days of the Tsarist empire flocking to fortune-tellers and mystics, upscale blue-staters have lost themselves lately in quasi-religious tracts like ''White Fragility'', and are lining up to flog themselves for personal and historical sins.

In desperation to help the country atone for their idea of why Trump happened, they’ve engaged in a sort of moon landing of anti-intellectual endeavors, committing a generation of minds to finding a solution to the one thing no thinking person ever considered a problem, i.e. the Enlightenment ideas that led to the American Revolution.

In desperation to help the country atone for their idea of why Trump happened, they’ve engaged in a sort of moon landing of anti-intellectual endeavors, committing a generation of minds to finding a solution to the one thing no thinking person ever considered a problem, i.e. the [[Enlightenment]] ideas that led to the [[American Revolution]].

The same pols and pundits who not long ago were waving the flag for wars and insisting that American-style democracy was so perfectly realized that it made sense to bring it to all the peoples of the world, by force if needed (think Friedman’s hypothesis of a borderless utopia of forced wealth creation called the Golden Straitjacket), have now reversed course to tell us our entire history needs to be wiped clean.

The same pols and pundits who not long ago were waving the flag for wars and insisting that American-style democracy was so perfectly realized that it made sense to bring it to all the peoples of the world, by force if needed (think Friedman’s hypothesis of a borderless utopia of forced wealth creation called the Golden Straitjacket), have now reversed course to tell us our entire history needs to be wiped clean.

Everything is a lie now.<ref>https://taibbi.substack.com/p/year-zero</ref>}}

'''Everything is a lie now.'''<ref>https://taibbi.substack.com/p/year-zero</ref>}}

==See also==

==See also==