The death of George Floyd is credited for igniting a “racial reckoning,” but as time has worn on, it’s become increasingly clear that that’s not really true. The reckoning was never racial — it was political.
That’s what Attorney General William Barr was getting at in a Sunday interview on Fox News when he described the present-day “Left” as a “revolutionary party that believes in tearing down the system.”
Barr said that the extreme wing of the Democratic Party believes that “what’s wrong about America today all has to do with the institutions we have and we have to tear them down. … They’re interested in complete political victory.”
All of that is true, and Barr also got it right when describing the way they operate to achieve their goals. “Their tactics are fascistic,” he said.
By “fascistic,” Barr could have been referring to the arson and the street violence still going on in some cities. But he was certainly also referring to the horrific intimidation methods of hard-left liberals. That’s what accusations of “white privilege” are — they’re meant to intimidate dissidents into submission.
Leftists pretend to hold the moral high ground purely by virtue of their claim to be victims. That way, anyone with a contradictory view is automatically an oppressive bigot. It’s actually very clever and also entirely sinister.
“They’re not interested in compromise,” said Barr. “They’re not interested in dialectic exchange of views. They’re interested in total victory.”
The Washington Post said Barr’s comments “represent some of his harshest critiques” of liberals. But it wasn’t a critique. It was a diagnosis.
