“You better get ready for … war.” Across the country, radicals are openly planning for the next stage of their movement, and notably, the Democratic establishment is not part of their plans. Despite the talk of a “Big Tent Party,” socialists are riding high on a surge of support and talking purges and revolution.
In Chicago, radicals gathered for a conference on Marxism during what many view as the heyday of socialism in the United States. The Democratic Socialists of America is now larger and more powerful than at any time in our history. Socialist candidates are winning elections across the country as Democratic establishment figures from Sen. Chuck Schumer (D., N.Y.) to Gov. Gavin Newsom pander to the movement.
Speakers in Chicago used the conference to push supporters to the next stage in the movement, including some openly calling for violence and the end to capitalism.
University of California Santa Barbara History Professor Butch Ware said Democrats “must be destroyed” and urged attendees to be ready for “war in the streets.” Notably, in postings on X, Ware has said that candidates such as New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed are too restrained and are being pushed by the establishment “to contain radicalism.”
The professor “of Africa and Islam” whose faculty page is appropriately found under “bware” is the latest radical to dismiss the “Big Tent Party” rhetoric of establishment figures like Schumer. He declared, “The Democrats cannot be reasoned with. They must be destroyed.” There is little subtlety in the message, Ware has explained: “You cannot call yourself a revolutionary and not be talking about training with weapons.”
It is another example of the delusion that establishment Democrats have that they will be able to use these radicals to destroy their political enemies but not themselves.
After one election victory, socialists chanted “You’re Next!” when House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries’s image came on big-screen televisions.
Hasan Piker has called for a purging of moderates from the Democratic Party.
Just last week, Darializa Avila Chevalier declared, “A big tent doesn’t pay your rent, lower your grocery bill, or take on the corporations bleeding our country dry. Democratic socialism does.”
In a video posted to X, Professor Ware called for violence, warning followers that “some of these clickety-clack revolutionaries have never been in a f*cking gunfight.” He menacingly added, “Y’all ain’t nowhere near ready for a war in the streets. You better get ready for both kinds of war if you stay ready, you ain’t got to get ready.”
This is just the latest example of the type of hate-spewing radical that university departments want to teach in higher education. While purging virtually all Republicans, conservatives, and libertarians from departments, faculty candidates cannot be too radical enough to secure positions on colleges and universities. UCSB pays Professor Ware over $211k to spread this type of lunacy.
Notably, this is the same university that saw a professor lead her students in physically assaulting pro-life advocates on campus years ago. Despite pleading guilty to criminal assault, she was not fired and later honored by the University of Oregon for her inspiring leadership.
In other events around the country such as “Socialism 2026 Conference,” City University of New York Professor Ruth Gilmore said in a video, “It’s capitalism we’re after,…There isn’t a capitalism that is somehow not racial. There isn’t a capitalism that does not produce and reproduce all kinds of sexual and gender boundaries.”
At my alma mater, University of Chicago professor Eman Abdelhadi, the half-sister of Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed, has denounced the university and explained that she is only teaching there to bring down the system.
One year after the massacre, Professor Abdelhadi offered an “October 7th blessing” over an attack that murdered, raped, and tortured innocent men, women, and children. She was previously arrested for spitting on officers.
She added “I hope you know that we have a lot of work ahead of us and that we need each other to do that work. We have an imperative to not just imagine a better future, but to build one together. I’ll see you on the streets.”
What is so striking is that these radicals are not hiding their agenda or their hostility toward the Democratic Establishment. William Lawrence, who is running for Michigan’s 7th Congressional District, previously called for the end of borders, the nation-state, capitalism, and told a leading moderate Democrat to “hurry up and die.”
In the meantime, some Democrats are admitting that, after using the socialists to retake power, they will marginalize them in actual governing decisions. Rep. Laura Gillen (D-NY) just explained that they will have to block the “crazy” DSA stuff from actually getting to the floor for a vote.
In Rage and the Republic, I discuss how these Democratic leaders are following the same self-destructive delusions of other establishment figures in history who thought that they could use mobs against their opponents while hoping that they could survive.
Figures like Newsom have even campaigned on denouncing capitalism as “not working” as candidates like Texas Democratic Senatorial candidate James Talarico have called to “dismantle” capitalism. Figures like former Vice President Kamala Harris have dismissed loyalty to our core institutions such as the Supreme Court as mere “nostalgia.”
It will not work. These figures are nothing more than “clickety-clack revolutionaries” who convince no one inside or outside the movement. By putting their elections above every other consideration, Democratic leaders are willing to endanger core institutions, values, and even capitalism itself to reacquire power. In so doing, they are embracing the very “mobocracy” that the Founders warned us against in laying the foundations of our constitutional system.
Jonathan Turley is a law professor and the New York Times best-selling author of “Rage and the Republic: The Unfinished Story of the American Revolution.”
This is all you guys have, isn’t it? Diesel and gas are at an all time high….we’re in a forever war in the Middle East….our former closest allies don’t trust us….Trump’s tariffs have economically isolated us…..he has BALLOONED the defecit….and the GOP has made us a laughing stock. But please, Professor – do continue to fearmonger about….”socialism.” Jesus you’re pathetic.
Americans are inundated with anti-Trump propaganda 24/7 from the mainstream media. This blog is part of a small minority of media outlets taking a different view and highlighting the extreme content of the Left. People like you, George/Svelaz, just can’t stand that there are voices that dissent from your Trump-deranged narrative. It drives you to distraction. It must suck to be you.
ditto
Diesel and gas are cheaper than under Biden when you figure in inflation.The Democrats have zero ideas how to reduce the cost and have historically increased the cost of both with their bad policies. Biden’s green energy the most. You are a fool.and a liar
Nonsense, in 2026 dollars gas ($5.60) and diesel ($6.01) were way higher in March 2012.
Adjusted for inflation Biden’s diesel is over $7 a gallon. Check it out if you don’t believe me. Find Biden’s highest diesel price, inflation from then to now. Put them in an inflation calculator and weep at the answer. Of course no media outlet will tell you that.
I was in Texas last week and we filled up with gas in at $3.59.
On Monday in Los Angeles it was $8.59.
That’s not Trump and that’s not the Iran war.
That is 100% Democrat policies in California.
That “forever war” is bleeding out as Scott Bessent exposes those funding the IRGC-“our allies”- by stopping their British Virgin Islands and City of London bank accounts.
Any deficit ( created by the last several admins)is chopped away by increasing domestic reindustrialization and that is what this administration is doing.
Trump has secured 17 TRILLION in domestic investments from our “other allies” which you ignore as does all the MSM
Trump has 90% support of the base.
Blow smoke somewhere else.
Your CCP psy op is boring and predictable.
PREACH and TEACH Anna!!!
They are sure to lose a war in the streets. American conservatives are armed to the teeth and loaded with ammo. This isn’t Imperial Russia. They don’t have the numbers for a fight and the trust fund babies won’t put the lives at risk, the soy boys will wilt in battle and the femi-Nazis are to stupid to win a fight.
“Not worth it. Hundreds of my friends…that gave their lives for what?”
– Alec Penstone___________________
Just imagine, every American soldier who died for his country—the United States of America—since 1776 actually died for MexAfricAsiArabia without even knowing it.
The American Revolutionaries fought for Americans and America. President Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez with Senator Abdul El-Sayed? Gloria Steinem compelling American women to stop making Americans and lowering the fertility rate below the replacement level. Americans used to be able to watch Americans play American baseball, football, and basketball. Can you do that? What in the world was the point of going around the world fighting all those wars only to give the country away to foreigners? America didn’t need to fight foreign wars to give the country to foreigners. All America had to do was open the borders and let them all flood in. America and American culture are gone. Imagine all those men dying in foreign countries for the benefit of foreigners. They didn’t even know.
This rage rant is an example of “Operation Demoralization”
Psy op trolls are out in force for the next 2 months attempting to demoralize voters its not worth it to vote.
The psyops goal is to affect the mid-terms.
Don’t get trapped in The Matrix.
“No, I’m sorry, the sacrifice wasn’t worth the result that it is now.”
“Even now [the country] is worse than it was when I fought for it.”
– Alec Penstone, 100-Year-Old World War II Veteran
“Worse than when [he] fought for it?” One wonders what that means.
This November there will be people voting who were born after 9/11. I remember where I was when I heard about what happened on 9/11. I remember where I was when I heard that president Kennedy was shot. Their idea of America is a lot different than mine. All a lot of these young voters have to go on is what some leftist has fed them. I remember 1967 through 1972. Crazy time in this country. Then in 1980 we elected Ronald Regan. We made it through that, we’ll make it through this.
Has it been established that the towers were a demolition?
yes, the question is by what……
This November there will be about 80 million illegal alien invaders, past and present, and women voting in the United States of America. Democracy was created as a severely restricted-vote (i.e. real, rational, and successful citizens) republic in Greece in 508 B.C.
Another Epstein squirrel.
Squirrel!
Magats have TDS.
^ Posted from an insane asylum ^
I don’t think these Lily-livered professors, Nepo babies and Trust Fund revolutionaries know what Capitalism and revolution actually are. I’m guessing they almost certainly don’t know what real violence is.
Professor Ware said…” attendees to be ready for “war in the streets.” “. Well I think most members of the military might welcome a “deployment” for a punitive expedition against Ware and anyone else so inclined to take “war to the streets”.
“Stand your ground. Don’t fire unless fired upon, but if they mean to have a war, let it begin here.” Attributed to Capt. John Parker on April 19, 1775
Ware called them clickety-clack revolutionaries and then told them to train. The numbers were never going to be in their favor. They don’t need to win. They just need to make enough of a ruckus that the vast majority calls for a strongman to restore the peace.
It could be that Professor Ware believes a DSA Administration will be in office next time around, and will sic the military on conservatives.
“It could be that Professor Ware believes a DSA Administration will be in office next time around, and will sic the military on conservatives.”
I strongly suspect that a DSA President’s first problem after giving such an order would be to quell the mutiny in the ranks.
Asserts the blog’s Deceiver:
“Playing a guilt-by-association card against the Democratic Party is completely inaccurate.”
A glee club welcomes, with open arms, arsonists into its “big tent.”
Guess what, glee club. You are guilty — by those you choose to endorse and associate with.
Sam, you’re not able to show Turley’s deliberate guilt by association narrative is true.
Turley is not telling you that the quotes and the rhetoric from the DSA is against the Democratic party’s positions. The professor is deliberately conflating things that are not true and leaving out a LOT of context.
X, you are the one conflating things. He is actually telling you the rhetoric of the DSA in against the Democrats who hold Democratic Party positions. If you speak against those positions you are speaking against the people that hold them. That is the whole point, to get control of the party as they intend they must eliminate those that don’t think as they do in order for the “Party” not to have positions they are against.
He’s telling you “rhetoric” out of context. Not what they actually meant in context. That’s a big difference.
Turley is giving snippets of events and quotes that are nowhere near what he is implying to you. He’s relying on your laziness to take his word instead of exercising some skepticism and learnt where the quote came from and its actual context.
Turley is claiming Democrats are cooperating with the DSA and vice versa. That’s not true.
Sam, the “war in the streets” and “training with weapons” rhetoric is completely taken out of context.
These quotes stem from an academic and activist panel analyzing the historical and rhetorical nature of revolutionary theory. While the rhetoric is intentionally provocative and highly controversial, the framing conflates aggressive anti-establishment rhetoric and ideological posture with immediate, literal violence. More importantly, Ware’s commentary explicitly emphasizes that establishment Democrats “cannot be reasoned with,” dismantling Turley’s claim that the Democratic Party is coordinating with or intentionally deploying these far-left figures.
The “October 7th blessing” quotation left out the fact that it was part of a larger discussion.
The video clip was originally filmed as part of a collaborative, solemn reflection organized by the group Rabbis 4 Ceasefire. It was explicitly structured as a cross-faith moment of grief marking one year since the initial attacks, intended to mourn all lives lost in the subsequent year of violence. Her call to “build a better future together” was framed around solidarity and human rights, instead of endorsing atrocities. Which Turley falsely leads you to believe. He relies on those too lazy to look things up and figure it if he’s telling the Truth. Obviously he’s not. But those who are too gullible or too invested in partisan “owning the libs” mentality are just not mentally capable of anything more substantive than just taking the professor’s false narrative at it’s word.
So, you are saying the words they use don’t mean what we think they do? When they say revolution or war, they really don’t mean it? they told you this? lol
Sam,
Well said.
PT is just trying to warn those in his party, the sane and normal ones, of the danger within their own party.
PT has been doing it for year. So has Bill Maher. We here on PT blog have been pointing it out.
Democrats, you need to get these people disassociated with your party, take back your party, get back to your roots.
“PT has been doing it for year. So has Bill Maher. ”
At this point, PT & Maher might be the very last remnants of that party. Everyone else seems to have been corrupted or coerced into silence, and silence in the face of what is being planned is absolute, irrevocable complicity.
Only read the headline of today’s serving of MAGA slop. Didn’t need to read more. MAGA knows that Republicans can’t win, and that Trump is toxic, that he’s destroying our relationships with Canada and other allies, that he started an unnecessary war based on a lie that he has no clue how to solve, and that voters are upset. So, the strategy is to create the illusion that Democrats would be worse than Republicans–in other words, if you can’t win, do everything possible to prevent the other side from winning. This includes the gerrymandering and efforts to try to prevent voting by mail, the culture wars nonsense, like harping about transgender women in sports, in addition to outright lying about Democrats or taking one extreme view and trying to claim it represents “the left”. Democrats are portrayed as socialists, communists, Marxists, and other scary-sounding “ists”, and today’s post is part of this strategy.
The Democratic Party does NOT embrace socialism or the other “isms” that MAGA is accusing them of. Trump is sitting on a $400 million war chest, and the lie machine is ramping up. Expect more of the same–and consider the source and reason behind it. Only the Democratic Party speaks for what it stands for–not MAGA.
We are not accusing moderate, traditional Democrats of anything.
The far illiberal leftists, yes. Just read and hear their words.
Democrats have been worse than Republicans since about 1856, and everything they accuse their opponents of doing are actions they themselves have taken.
Hundred years ago, Daniel 2:43 precisely predicted the population of the USA, when God’s kingdom will take over the earth
https://photos.app.goo.gl/Gf2eVXSkLGAK76rbA
Professor Turley loves to pull the rage-bait chain just to drive traffic.The DSA is nowhere near being aligned with mainstream Democrats. Playing a guilt-by-association card against the Democratic Party is completely inaccurate.
Sure, Democratic Socialists have gained a few seats, but that only shows how frustrated voters are with both major parties. Republicans have shown no interest in actually governing, while establishment Democrats have often been too weak to push back forcefully. That is exactly why figures like Mamdani and El-Sayed are gaining ground. They are actually keeping their promises, showing their work, and delivering results for their constituents.
Trump and the Republicans know they are in trouble because they have nothing substantive to campaign on. Instead, they lean into culture wars that the majority of people do not care about. In Texas, they resort to fear-mongering because they cannot run on the issues that actually matter to everyday people, like inflation, unwanted foreign conflicts, and rising energy costs tied to data centers.
Turley’s reliance on inflammatory language to rage-bait his readers is par for the course. The DSA is nowhere near as massive as he wants you to believe; they account for less than 0.05% of the political establishment. Yet, he frames them as if they are suddenly the most powerful and dangerous force facing the nation. It is absurd.
Democratic Socialists are finding success because they tap into populist frustration much like Trump did, but without the grift and dishonesty. They focus on what people want and show tangible progress. Even local figures like Mamdani are proving to be highly popular right now compared to national figures.With Democrats positioned to win control of Congress this midterm, the political landscape is turning against Trump. His health and mental acuity appear to be declining. While some suggest it might make sense for him to step aside and let JD Vance take the reins, it is widely recognized that he is unlikely to do so.
Here some constitutional issues Turley should write about:
It has always been legal to photograph anything while standing on “public” property, but illegal to go onto private property and photograph without the owner’s permission. This has been traditional law for several decades.
There has already been much debate on 4th Amendment grounds, concerning police officers with body cameras stepping onto private property and photographing your private home.
In 2027 top tech companies are selling “Camera/Video Glasses” and it’s possible millions of Americans could have these still or video glasses. So what is the law? Does the owner of private property still need to grant permission to the salesman knocking on the front door?
Also in 2027 or 2028, apparently new car manufacturers are legally required by Congress to “video photograph” a drivers face and eyelids 24/7 while driving our private property that we paid for. Likely driven by insurance company lobbyists to record driving habits.
Apparently one major auto manufacturer headquartered in Japan, in 2026 warns drivers “not to have sex in or around their vehicles” because their team of employees might be watching them. Maybe pay extra for the tinted windows;)
Before this camera and internet technology existed (literally the horse & buggy days) there was the “Plain View” exception to 4th Amendment search & seizure laws. If a sheriff stopped your buggy and saw something illegal during the stop (in plain view), it was an exception to 4th Amendment law.
On Drones with cameras, apparently every locality has their own laws governing the curtilage around your home. Some big cities with highrise residential apartments require 50ft beyond the public sidewalk. Some have minimum height requirements so the neighborhood boys can’t spy on your daughter or wife sunbathing in the back yard. What about celebrity weddings being invaded by drones?
Now in the 21st Century we have technology moving faster than laws by Congress to govern it. There seems to be no urgency from Congress on regulating this new technology. should write more about this since some of this technology will be used next year.
So in words if the sheriff pulls over your horse & buggy for a pretext stop (excessive horse flatulence, etc) and then finds untaxed moonshine that was how the 4th Amendment’s “Plain View” exception originated?
Oh it’s much worse than that. Each person has been profiled and designated access to limited areas. It had to be done because of murder, theft, violence of various kinds. There are those wanting safety and no contact with the criminally insane. The people in the article are considered as such.
Like the Democrats, Kerensky also believed there were “no enemies to the left.”
Lenin and the Bolsheviks were to his left.
Kerensky died in New York, far away from Russia.
Where can Democrats flee if they let these violent lunatics take over?
Time to cut their losses, condemn, and isolate the serpent they have cuddled and stroked for votes.
They had a warning with the 1968 riots at the Chicago Democrat Convention. Obviously they ignored the alarm. Don’t ignore this one.
The establishment Democrats are making the old mistake of thinking they can rent a mob to regain power. That mob won’t stop at their enemies. History has a nasty way of repeating itself. The mob will have its day, and then the people will demand a strong leader to put an end to it.
“History has a nasty way of repeating itself.” So when did history initiate the first rent-a-mob issue?
I think some Romans used rent-a- mobs near the end of the Republic. Caesar denied destroying the Republic saying he picked it up broken from the gutter. Mob rule and vicious government led to Napoleon in France and to Caesar in Rome. There are other examples. Sooner or later a big foot comes down to stop the chaos. Never let it happen here. The Democrats chose fire and now they are getting burned.
You know the answer, or at least should. Rome leading to Caesar. France leading to Napoleon. Russia leading to Stalin. The better question: name one time it ended well for the people who incited the mob.
Olly,
The French Revolution is also a horrific example.
A large number of the representatives in the Estates General that became the National Convention died by violence.
Oddly, the Revolution was largely the work of lawyers. But they were using the mobs.
Robespierre himself was killed by the very forces he helped unleash.
Olly,
I think the German establishment believed that once Hitler was in office they would be able to control him.
I believe that did not work out as planned.
That would be true.
Donald J. Trump lashed out at critics of his aide Natalie Harp on Tuesday after she shared screenshots of the nation’s nuclear codes on her Instagram.
National security experts expressed alarm about Harp’s social media post, which featured a clearly legible image of the nuclear codes adorned with heart and smiley-face emojis.
“Despite what the fake news says, Natalie is doing an amazing job,” Trump said. “That post got millions of likes, from places as far away as Russia, China, and Iran.”
In an unexpected vote of support, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney also defended Harp, telling reporters, “The world is safer if she has the nuclear codes and he doesn’t.”
Rumors that Donald Trump’s aide Natalie Harp posted the nuclear codes online are false and stem from a satirical article.
A humorous piece by writer Andy Borowitz circulated on social media, falsely claiming that Harp posted legible nuclear codes on Instagram and that Trump defended her. An actual image or screenshot of nuclear codes with emojis does not exist online. It was entirely a text-based joke created by satirist Andy Borowitz. In his original Facebook post and Substack article, he simply wrote out the fictional narrative describing an Instagram post “adorned with heart and smiley-face emojis”.
It is difficult to discern just who are the useful idiots here: the idealistic, know-nothing, college educated young adults that fall for the siren song of socialism or the mainstream Democrats that think they can ride the DSA to election victory and then shut them out of the governing process. Perhaps they both are. However, one would be wise now to hear the call from the left for armed violence and do what is necessary to be prepared to protect one’s family and one’s self if it comes to that.
Mein Kampf 2.0
” do what is necessary to be prepared to protect one’s family and one’s self if it comes to that.”
An accurate rifle in .50 BMG might be useful in that event. In places that have banned that round, a similar rifle in .338 Lapua magnum (I’m partial to the Ruger Precision Rifle, but opinions may vary) should suffice, albeit with somewhat less potential against armored equipment. The lapdogs of the left who perform stupid tricks like banning .50 BMG are never smart enough to realize that there are several adequate substitutes.
As much as I would love to see the Pikers, El-Sayeds and Jihadi Mamdanis of the DSA “take to the streets” to force Marxism on the sane people in America – because they would most certainly be wiped out in just a few minutes by those “rifles behind every blade of grass” in the hands of patriots – I’m guessing they will all move on to some newer, trendier thing once the midterms and 2028 hands that Democrat Party “big tent” cesspool their a$$e$ on a platter.
Also, it’s great to see that Chiquita AOC Khrushchev rejoined the DSA officially, just as they are humiliating themselves. She was one of their last hopes, especially since Newscum has such a horrific record. 😉
Professor Turley writes: “Democratic establishment figures from Sen. Chuck Schumer (D., N.Y.) to Gov. Gavin Newsom pander to the movement.” That’s one way to look at it. Another way to look at it is this. They are the movement, they’ve always been the movement, they’ve just been waiting for the right time to say so out loud. Let’s think about this. Does anybody think that the “establishment figures” woke up all of a sudden, and became who they were not?
You hit the nail on the head. The DSA violent rads ARE the Democrat Party. 100%.
There are, basically, 2 types of humans that fall for communism in all of its various iterations.
There are those who never, before, experienced freedom and individual rights such as the serfs of Russian or the peasants of China and where there were a small minority of capitalists living within their borders who were easily overcome/eliminated.
The other group were the idealists such as the original pilgrims in America and the various communal associations formed here (you can replicate this in many other western cultures with similar results) but which, eventually, failed.
The Reason that Russian and China continued to keep communism alive was through force and intimidation.
The Reason that it failed in western cultures is because the individual members were; 1) aware of freedom and individual rights before entering the communal lifestyle, and 2) they were free to leave that commune when they found that it did not do what they expected.
It was that freedom that doomed communal life in western culture. You can note that every eastern block nation returned to freedom and some form of free enterprise when the Berlin wall came down and Russia no longer controlled their destinies from Moscow.
Since the morons of the socialist/communist community in America seem unaware of this, they can expect the majority of Americans (well versed in freedom and the Bill of Rights) will not just knuckle under to the ideology but will resist it with an intensity that these indoctrinated tools cannot fathom
Keeping your freedom is a much stronger motivator (especially well-armed individuals who are so motivated) than the greed and want of emaciated peasants desperate for something better and willing to accept a catchphrase that offers relief from their current situation.
If it does come to war, I will side with the self-reliant patriots and not with those socialists who need funding from sources that will not reach them in a time of war against the government/constitution.
Plagiarizing again eh?
Just because you are incapable of stringing 2 cogent sentences together doesn’t imply that those of us who can need to plagiarize to post. Live in your own dark world and stop pretending that you comprehend ours. Back under the bridge, you troll.
Well said Mama, but I think there is a third, and growing, group as well, in addition to the serfs and idealists. The opportunists/anarchists simply see the wave of revolution taking place and want pure unrestrained power over their fellow citizens. The Nazis (yes, they were socialists) are the prime example.
I agree and they are the ones who will rise to the top in a situation where the ignorant and desperate are willing to swallow any nice promise that seems better than what they have, or, in the case of the ill-educated and indoctrinated elitism, it will salve their white guilt or soothe their need for reparations.
“. . . the majority of Americans (well versed in freedom and the Bill of Rights) . . .”
I wish it were so.
From my experience, most do not understand what a right is. They don’t grasp what constitutes the violation of a right. They have a woozy “definition” of “freedom.” They do not understand the primary importance of the right to property, and don’t see what that right entails. They are virtually ignorant about the foundational ideas at work here: Individualism vs collectivism.
One can see this in the overwhelmingly passive acceptance of the countless, tyrannical Covid diktats. A citizenry “well versed” would have stormed the Bastille.
Such ignorance is only partly their fault. The bulk of the blame for that ignorance lies with the universities.
You are correct, but I would place most of those types in the dem/DSA/nutjob side of the fence. Sure there are some who will vote red because of the flags flying and the good old rhetoric, but, by and large, the red voters understand their basic rights, especially the conservatives and the libertarians.
“Such ignorance is only partly their fault. The bulk of the blame for that ignorance lies with the universities.”
Unless by “the universities” you specifically mean teachers’ colleges for the past 60 years or more, the blame begins not at the university level, but with public schools systems, at about 2nd or 3rd grade.
There is an appealing idea that this kind of crazy gets traction in our youth too far removed from having lived through the events that have shaped our nation. We might be missing a speech bet with an asset we have that gets right in the face of the claim that this crazy is new and wonderful. That asset is the assembly en masse of all the voices who escaped here from countries where the crazy was old, not wonderful and did not work. Especially the youth among them who are not far removed.