Stop Turning The Other Cheek

Too many on the Right think we should not fight back

I read Kurt Schlichter’s excellent “The Debate Over Whether to Crush Our Enemies or Be Nice” and all I could do was nod my head and say yes as I read it. Essentially, Kurt is addressing the right wing/GOP attacks on the people out there that celebrated the attempted assassination of Trump by wishing that the shooter had not missed. A lot of folks on the right seem to be upset that we went and got those people cancelled. School teachers, a grandma that works at Home Depot, and more. But these people publicly said that they wanted another American dead.

Why wouldn’t that deserve cancelling? More to the point, the Left comes after us for silly things, like saying white wash and accusing us of racism for using that term and then trying to get us cancelled any way possible. These things are not equal. But if you want the latter to stop, you have to fight back and make the former painful for them. More important, if someone on my side wishes death on an American of Democratic persuasion, th…