{"id":63669,"date":"2021-01-07T10:16:48","date_gmt":"2021-01-07T16:16:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=63669"},"modified":"2021-01-07T10:18:33","modified_gmt":"2021-01-07T16:18:33","slug":"63669","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=63669","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/vodkapundit\/2021\/01\/07\/insanity-wrap-120-welcome-to-banana-republic-usa-n1312123\">Welcome to Banana Republic, USA.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Out of all the crazy, strange, and unbelievable news items Insanity Wrap has brought you over the previous 119 editions of this column, \u201cguns drawn in the Capitol\u201d is the craziest, the strangest, and the most unbelievable \u2014 all in one item of just five words.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s difficult to be glib about the news after a day like yesterday, so today\u2019s Insanity Wrap will be less of a wrap-up and more of a lament.<\/p>\n<p>Four people are dead.<\/p>\n<p>So many of us told you something like this was inevitable after Antifa\/BLM was allowed for months to get away with their anarcho-communist brand of street thuggery.<\/p>\n<p>Not that you, gentle reader, needed to be told.<\/p>\n<p>Still, the timing and location came as a shock.<\/p>\n<p>It remains to be seen whether yesterday\u2019s deadly riot represents a one-off venting of political frustration or a sea-change in that the Right will from now on operate more like the Left does.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Just had a friend say to me \u201cRepublicans don\u2019t ever protest or riot for long because they have jobs\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Bro&#8230; not anymore \ud83d\udc40<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Lauren Southern (@Lauren_Southern) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Lauren_Southern\/status\/1347132907492581379?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 7, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Make no mistake: Despite our early concerns that the MAGA protest was turned into a riot by antifa infiltrators, there\u2019s no evidence to support that comforting notion.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t take Insanity Wrap\u2019s word for it. Go to instead to Andy Ngo, whose undercover reporting on 2020\u2019s left-wing violence has made him the go-to expert on the subject.<\/p>\n<p>Paul Bedard\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/washington-secrets\/expert-andy-ngo-it-wasnt-antifa-at-the-capitol-riots\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a>\u00a0last night:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe people occupying the Capitol building do not look like antifa people dressed in Trump gear or Trump costumes,\u201d [Ngo] said in an interview from England.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have seen no evidence that they are able to coordinate a mass infiltration on this scale before, so I\u2019m really skeptical that they would have been able to do it here without any of that information leaking out,\u201d he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>DC Examiner\u2019s Will Ricciardella \u2014 no friend of the Left \u2014 tweeted on Wednesday, \u201cI didn\u2019t see any BLM or antifa all day and I\u2019ve walked through the crowd a few times.\u201d But, he added, \u201cWhatever bad elements there are, they\u2019re vastly outnumbered by everyday folks. I walked through with no problems.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The good news is that the riot was conducted by a small minority of the protestors. The bad news is that there were enough rioters to get four people killed while ransacking our nation\u2019s Capitol building.<\/p>\n<p>Shameful.<\/p>\n<p>More shameful however is official Democrat tolerance and actual encouragement of political violence \u2014 provided the violence is committed by their own street thugs.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Violence on both sides is bad. But I didn&#39;t hear anything out of Biden or Harris&#39; mouth all summer as our cities were burning down. <\/p>\n<p>Americans are fed up with hypocrisy.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Lisa Daftari (@LisaDaftari) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LisaDaftari\/status\/1346942807446065152?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 6, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Worse, any further right-wing violence could be used as a justification for Democrats \u2014 who will soon assume control of both chambers and the White House \u2014 to crack down on conservative groups.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s easy to see that becoming an escalating cycle of official lawlessness by the federal government, and unofficial lawlessness by the oppressed.<\/p>\n<p>If that becomes the case, welcome to Banana Republic, USA.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re already there in places like Portland, where Democrats have had free rein to experiment with using official lawlessness to consolidate state power.<\/p>\n<p>Hell, we\u2019re already there in big blue states like California and New York. What else do you call it, other than a banana republic, when officials arbitrarily enact, rescind, and reenact random and capricious lockdown orders?<\/p>\n<p>As Charles Lipson <a href=\"https:\/\/spectator.us\/constitutional-republic-looks-like-capitol\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote<\/a> Wednesday night:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The scale and symbolic significance of this attack are new and profoundly troubling. But it is also the culmination of several disturbing trends. For months now, we have witnessed a degradation of public order \u2014 mobs roaming city streets, unpunished; an effort to take over and firebomb a federal courthouse in Portland, unpunished; delegates attacked on the streets of Washington after the Republican convention, unpunished. And now this, far worse than anything that came before.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cIt could be worse,\u201d Igor told Dr. Frederick Frankenstein. \u201cIt could be raining.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And the violence could be worse: Trump could have (and probably actually did) win the election. As Glenn Reynolds asked earlier this morning, \u201cDoes anyone think there wouldn\u2019t have been riots if Trump had been declared the winner?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Of course there would have been.<\/p>\n<p>The Left has put on a four-year-long temper tantrum in response to Trump\u2019s 2016 victory, culminating with them turning 2020 into the worst year of riots since 1968. Worse was the running coup attempt against Trump that began before he was even sworn into office.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe egged on his supporters\u201d yesterday, the Democrat-Media Complex claims. But that\u2019s exactly what the Democrats have done on an ongoing basis since the morning of November 9, 2016.<\/p>\n<p>The Left projects. Always. If you hear a committed progressive claim that Trump is stealing Easter eggs from children, it\u2019s a sure thing you\u2019ll catch them hiding brightly-colored shell fragments from a crying child.<\/p>\n<p>It would be easy to predict that things will get worse before they get better \u2014 if they get better.<\/p>\n<p>But as always, the outcome is up to us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to Banana Republic, USA. Out of all the crazy, strange, and unbelievable news items Insanity Wrap has brought you over the previous 119 editions of this column, \u201cguns drawn in the Capitol\u201d is the craziest, the strangest, and the most unbelievable \u2014 all in one item of just five words. 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