Michael Anton’s "Flight 93 Election" portrayed well the dire situation we faced in '16. I’ve compiled a thread of recent essays which taken together paint an even worse picture for '20. Not to say I deserve inclusion w/these other brilliant writers, I present my warning first: 1/
2/ You feel it in your soul. A massive political tsunami is coming. How violent its displacement, what refills what it displaced, and what arises in the aftermath of its destruction—a restoration or transformation—will be up to us. https://amgreatness.com/2020/07/07/the-political-tsunami-of-2020/
3/ If Reagan was famous for calling the Soviet Union and its ideology the evil it was, Trump will go down in history for getting the Dem Party to admit how it really feels about America: it "loathes it and wants to replace it..." -- @EricLendrum26 https://amgreatness.com/2020/07/05/the-civil-war-election/
4/ This isn't really about Trump vs Biden, "It is civilization and America on one side, anarchy and woke tyranny on the other. The Democrats thought they could ride the tiger to victory. Instead, they will be consumed..." Must read by
@rogerkimball https://amgreatness.com/2020/07/11/its-all-about-november-3/
@rogerkimball https://amgreatness.com/2020/07/11/its-all-about-november-3/
5/ “No, America is not a failed state. But...we must act like it could become one...that America could swiftly collapse [so] that we can muster the urgency and seriousness needed to preserve the American way of life." Must read by @jeffgiesea https://americanmind.org/features/preserving-the-american-way-of-life/americas-dangerous-new-era-demands-a-new-kind-of-greatness/
6/ “We must, yet again, stand athwart history and stop the madness, if we can.” A brilliant, scary, stirring, wake-up call and rallying cry by @KeenanPeachy https://americanmind.org/essays/red-november/
7/ Time to rise up, or else--as Beale in the '76 movie "Network" says: "What is finished… is the idea that this great country is dedicated to the freedom and flourishing of every individual in it.”--Michael Walsh (currently suspended @dkahanerues) https://www.theepochtimes.com/are-americans-mad-as-hell_3423389.html
8/ "We've traveled to the very edge of the abyss. Will we tip over into the furnace or pull back at the last moment and choose civilization over anarchy?" Another great piece by @rogerkimball: https://amgreatness.com/2020/08/01/the-choice-before-us/
9/ We're "just a few hundred yards from our own Rubicon. Will the winner of the 2020 election be the savior of the Republic, or its destroyer?" The great Michael Walsh @_ThePipeline_ : https://www.theepochtimes.com/the-preservation-of-americas-republic-hangs-in-the-balance_3448851.html
10/ "Yes, if we re-elect Trump in November, we’ll be...accepting the very real prospect of violence sweeping through major cities. But that will happen anyway, even if the Democrats win." @JZmirak https://stream.org/2020-the-thelma-and-louise-election/
11/ "Any one of the 3 perils is potentially lethal in its own right. In the aggregate, this is a crisis of epic proportions... [We] see the vultures circling. The signs are everywhere...The Republic is at risk. Now defend it." A warning by @RichHiggins_DC https://amgreatness.com/2020/08/05/the-three-perils-threatening-the-united-states/
12/ “COVID-19 is not America’s plague. It did not shake America. The ruling class shook it. They have not done it ignorantly or by mistake. They have done it to extort the general public’s compliance with their agendas.”—Codevilla @theammind https://americanmind.org/essays/the-covid-coup/
13/ "We now appear to have entered the final phase of our self-degradation: perceiving ourselves predominantly as a pestilence...bringing an end to the millennia-old sense of the human person as an embodied soul on an earthly soujourn." @RealJohnWaters https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2020/08/fatal-loss-face-frontpagemagcom/#.XzCk8gvX_zM.twitter
14/ “A vote for Biden is a vote for anarchy, for the disintegration of law and order, for economic paralysis, for stunning intolerance and for the forfeiture of America as we know it, to the incalculable detriment of Americans...” @DavidLimbaugh https://www.dailywire.com/news/limbaugh-demonizing-trump-supporters-only-strengthens-their-resolve
15/ "The battle for the survival of the US...is upon us...more consequential than any period of recent unrest, and it’s not just another leftist wave destined to roll on until it loses strength." Must read by @AbeGreenwald https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/abe-greenwald/yes-this-is-a-revolution/