From the George Floyd riots and soft-on-crime policies to illegal immigration and anti-ICE protests, the left has continually advocated for outsiders and criminals over the best interests of law-abiding citizens.
Political theorist and author of "The Total State: How Liberal Democracies Become Tyrannies," Auron MacIntyre, explained on a recent episode of "1819 News: The Podcast," how the left uses the tactic of anarcho-tyranny — punishing good people with burdensome regulations while criminals go free — to shape society and grow its power.
"What kind of idiot goes out and tries to arrest all the law-abiding people and let all the criminals free? The answer is a tyrant," MacIntyre began.
"Aristotle says that the tyrant is the one who surrounds himself with foreigners while ultimately despising his own people. It's a very similar dynamic we see here," he continued. "The more tyrannical our government becomes, the more it wants to favor the underclasses, the outsider, the immigrant, the illegal, the criminal, and ultimately wants to punish the people who are organizing society for society's benefit because they're the enemy… And so what we're seeing right now in Minneapolis is that ultimately, the Democratic Party understands its role as the party of anarcho-tyranny. It's the ones that understand that the middle class is the problem. They're the issue. They're the people standing in the way. This is why you constantly see them attacking Christianity, why you see them attacking whiteness, why you see them attacking the bourgeois, because they recognize that these are the people who are building the resistance mechanisms, the people who still have enough influence, power, organization to push back against the total state, to push back against the tyranny."
While Democrats accuse the Trump administration of authoritarianism, MacIntyre warned that is precisely what is coming if decisive action is not taken now against the left's anarcho-tyranny.
"If you're really worried about authoritarianism, like if you're truly worried about this radical right-wing coming in, the best thing to do is to take extreme action now before they're in power. Because the reason you get Franco is that the left keeps bombing people, the communists keep killing people, and the right doesn't do anything," he said.
"The moderate Republicans would not take action in the Spanish Civil War. Because they didn't, eventually, you needed a dictator to come in and make things right again... If the right is serious, then it needs to take very big action now. That might seem extreme. You might say, 'Auron, you're a crazy person for asking for this now.' But trust me, the guy behind me will be asking for way more. So I'm just saying, big things need to happen. Because if you don't, larger corrections have to take place. And I fear that that dynamic has simply not settled in, and there are still so many people wringing their hands, not recognizing that they are kind of staring at history without their pants on at this point."
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