It’s time for the right to stop living in the past and start living in the zeitgest. Yes, friends, it’s time to start supporting reparations.
After all, President Trump does.
Speaking to Newsmax, President Trump was asked about reparations for the January 6 prisoners, and answered positively to the concept.
And why not? Most reasonable people agree that those who were actually violent deserved the consequences they faced – which was prison time.
But the grannies who calmly respected the velvet ropes in Statuary Hall and the Rotunda? What crime did they commit after walking through open doors in a public building they pay for?
Nevertheless, they paid, and paid dearly.
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You know who hasn’t paid? And for actual, serious crimes? Most of the people involved in the George Floyd Summer of Love. (Not to mention all the serial criminals and violent criminal illegal aliens who keep being cut loose by blue cities.)
The January 6 prisoners didn’t kill anyone – but at least 25 Americans were killed or murdered by the Floydites.
Nevertheless, taxpayers in blue cities like New York, Denver, and San Diego (to name a few) are paying Floydite rioters – to the tune of at least $80 million and counting.
So the right has a few options.
They can do nothing. This is the status quo, and what Republican politicians have always done in the face of the most preposterous injustice.
They can’t get even, but they can restore a modicum of justice by getting reparations for the non-violent who were swept up in the overzealous prosecutions.
Specifically, Trump said: “Well, there’s talk about that. A lot of the people that are in government now talk about it because a lot of the people in government really like that group of people. They were patriots as far as I was concerned. I talk about them a lot. They were treated very unfairly.”
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I can already hear the objection: “This is a leftist tactic!”
No. This is a power tactic – something the right has completely forgotten about after Nixon was railroaded out of office.
Politics is the use of power to distribute resources. Ideology is the how and why. You can either use power to empower and help your side, or allow the other side to do it.
It will be done. By who and for whom is the only question. Cui paga? Cui bono?
