Order Robert Spencer’s The Sumter Gambit: How The Left Is Trying To Foment A Civil War: HERE.
What was the point of the Democrats’ Jan. 6 hoax? It is by now abundantly clear that there was no “insurrection” on Jan. 6, 2021, and that the Democrat leadership knew full well that there wasn’t even as they went full-throttle with their narrative. And so the question is inevitable: why? What were leftists hoping to accomplish?
Some obvious answers are that they hoped to destroy Donald Trump as a political force once and for all and discredit and demoralize his supporters. But there was clearly a larger, more insidious goal as well: the Democrats hoped with their fabricated Jan. 6 “insurrection” to create the pretext to do nothing less than destroy their legitimate opposition, not rhetorically but in a real sense, so that America would henceforth be functionally a one-party state in which only one point of view would be allowed.
The Sumter Gambit: How the Left Is Trying to Foment A Civil War lays out the entire strategy, which is not just political but cultural as well. After allegedly defeating Trump in the 2020 election, leftists hoped to use the very act of patriotic resistance as a pretext for an authoritarian crackdown on the alleged “insurrectionists.” In doing so, they hoped to create a win-win situation for themselves: either we went along with their increasingly insane and destructive cultural agenda, or if we opposed it too vehemently, they could use that opposition as an opportunity to press forward with their authoritarian agenda.
Leftists saw their big opportunity in Trump’s Jan. 6, 2021, “Stop the Steal” rally. There are numerous indications that they planned the whole thing beforehand; the footage of policemen calmly escorting the celebrated Man with Viking Horns around the Capitol building certainly suggests that. The Democrats apparently got tired of waiting for Trump to prove himself to be the authoritarian dictator they claimed that he wanted to be and decided to frame him yet again by creating an “insurrection” with the America-First president as the ringleader. Once they had their “insurrection,” they could use it to crack down on the “insurrectionists,” and that’s where things got really insidious.
On Sept. 1, 2022, in a nationally televised address, Old Joe Biden revealed the next part of the left’s strategy. In a dark, threatening speech before an ominous red-and-black background and flanked by two Marines in full dress uniform, Biden declared that “Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic.” The message couldn’t have been clearer: the establishment left, entrenched in power in the United States but deeply afraid of losing that power, was intent on criminalizing political opposition. Dissent from Biden’s agenda, and you could end up with the thought police breaking down your door at four a.m.
“Too much of what’s happening in our country today is not normal,” Biden complained. “Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic.” After making this frankly authoritarian statement, the corrupt senescent liar had the unspeakable audacity to add, “But I’m an American president — not the president of red America or blue America, but of all America.”
No, that was exactly what he wasn’t. He effectively resigned from that position with that Sept. 1, 2022, speech. He was not the president of Americans who wanted to see a strong, independent, self-sufficient America and a leader who put America and its citizens first. He was at war with those Americans, and remained so throughout his Potemkin presidency.
Back on March 23, 1933, before he became the world’s universal symbol for the embodiment of evil, German chancellor Adolf Hitler spoke before the Reichstag, urging it to pass the Enabling Act, which would give him dictatorial powers. He said that this was urgently needed in light of an imminent threat to the nation. Hitler claimed that in 1918, Marxist organizations had seized power in Germany, leading to “a time of boundless misfortune for Germany, that is to say, the working German Volk [people].” But he assured the Reichstag deputies that “the German Volk itself has increasingly turned away from concepts, parties, and associations which, in its eyes, are responsible for these conditions.”
Sound familiar? These were the same rhetorical notes Biden sounded during his speech branding Trump and his supporters as enemies of the state. The resonances were real and ominous. For the first time in over two hundred years of American history, a president had declared that his primary political opposition stood outside the bounds of acceptable political discourse.
The logical next step was the one Hitler took: He blamed one of his strongest adversaries, the Communist Party, for the Reichstag fire, and outlawed it accordingly. With the Communist deputies barred from being present, the Reichstag passed the Enabling Act, and Germany’s unfortunate fourteen-year experiment with a representative republic was over.
Biden and his handlers didn’t succeed in doing that. There was too strong a tradition of freedom in the U.S., and the 2024 election proved to be harder to steal than the COVID-era 2020 election was. Rest assured, however: they’ll keep trying.
