[ Adapted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively on VDARE.com.]

There was no abatement of Lefty hysteria in this, the second week of the first Trump administration.



The principal eruptions were:

• mobs of demonstrators at airports protesting a change to Customs and Immigration procedures;


• Main Stream Media denunciations of Trump's pick for the Supreme Court;


• Hollywood airheads going Hitlery-Hitlery-Hitler at some glitzy awards ceremony;


• an antifa riot on the Berkeley campus of the University of California.

In Radio Derb, I give over a segment to each of those issues. Here I'll just pass comment on the anti-Trump hysteria in general.

The most interesting political question about it all is: How much does it help Trump?

I'm going to take it as a given that it does help him, at least short-term. My question is, whether it helps him somewhat, a lot, or a whole lot.

In the spirit of seeking the Middle Way, I think I'll settle on just "a lot." Read more >>

When Gen. Michael Flynn marched into the White House Briefing Room to declare that "we are officially putting Iran on notice," he drew a red line for President Trump. In tweeting the threat, Trump agreed.

His credibility is now on the line.

And what triggered this virtual ultimatum?

Iran-backed Houthi rebels, said Read more >>

The violent suppression of Milo Yiannopoulos' appearance at Berkeley with the obvious connivance of the university authorities (n.b. no arrests) is that latest sign that things are moving fast in Civil War Version 2.0.  VDARE.com’s eminent John Derbyshire still thinks it won’t happen because “our society is much too fat and soft” and anyway the levers of power are in the hands of the Cultural Marxists. But  VDARE.com Editor Peter Brimelow, looking at the Inauguration Day riots, concluded “it will come to blood.” Federale says: it will happen, sooner than you think, and it will be a beautiful blow-out.

Unlike the Civil War 1.0, the War Between The States, there is no one actually willing to fight and die on the Cultural Marxist/ CalExit side of this war.  Perhaps they might recruit from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Really Big Fires, but I think Waco changed everything, and the jackbooted government thugs know they can't win.  The Rules of Engagement have changed. And they won't die for Sergey Brin, Tim Cook, and Mark Zuckerberg.

I warned that this was coming. Federale was a voice in the wilderness.  But it is happening, right before our eyes.

However, it won't be as fun as Version 1.0, which gave us the bravest of men on both sides: Mosby, Custer, Jackson, Lee, and Sherman.  There are few men today to match these giants, and certainly none on the CalExit side. Does anyone think that Russian Jewish immigrant Sergey Brin will be taking up arms or laying his life down for Muslim terrorists? How sharp than the serpent's tooth is the treason of immigrant refugees. Read more >>

Everything said about President Trump's "Muslim ban" is a lie--including that it's a Muslim ban.

The New York Times wore out its thesaurus denouncing the order: "cruelty ... injury ... suffering ... bigoted, cowardly, self-defeating ... breathtaking ... inflammatory ... callousness and indifference"--and that's from a single editorial!

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Collective mass insanity. From a reader, edited for anonymity:

After witnessing the Left's response to Trump's "Muslim Ban" I can only refer to one of your early diaries in which you said that "we are passing through a temporary period of collective mass insanity."

I still remember the pre-2001 America. Muslims were not any sort of presence in the U.S., outside of a few cities (Dearborn, MI, Paterson, NJ, Brooklyn, NY, Falls Church, VA, etc.) There was little cultural impact, outside of appearing in a few terrorist novels. I don't recall seeing a Muslim in my daily life outside of NYC. Now, only 15 years later, they are supposedly a key element of American identity.

Case in point: The CEO of my company sent out an email to all of our employees following President Trump's executive order on immigration from those seven unstable Muslim-majority countries. In the email he urged us to keep our workplace "a safe space" for all our co-workers. Our company, he said, values "diversity" and "inclusion." Our differences, he said, make us stronger.

Our CEO is an ordinary American guy; not bad or crazy in any way, by no means a Social Justice Warrior, just a suburban dad who worked hard and eventually moved to the top of the organization. Yet he used the phrase "safe space" un-ironically in an email to the firm's employees. This phrase was not in any sort of use outside of the looniest corners of college grievance culture three years ago.

I'm afraid that the West has morphed into some sort of suicide death cult. Most Americans, even ones who don't read the news on a daily basis, are aware of what is going on in Europe. The majority of Americans, who do not want to see mass Muslim migration, are terrified of speaking out against it.

What is next for the West? I honestly don't know.

Neither do I, friend. Watching the month-end mass hysteria over an unremarkable and minor change to our customs and immigration rules, it really does seem that some large subset of our population has slipped into collective insanity.

The Diversity Cult is nuts. A moment's calm reflection shows its absurdity. If you have more than that moment to spare, I refer you to blogger M.G., who spells it all out in fine detail at Those Who Can See [ The Diversity Tax , December 11, 2016]

And as my correspondent says, it's not just that we have tens of thousands of shrieking lunatics with nothing to do all day long but make placards and demonstrate. That would be bad enough; but sane, normal people like that CEO believe they have to parrot the idiot phrases — "safe space," "inclusion," "who we are" — or pay a price.

It's nuts. Just look at those demonstrators these past few days. An actual majority seem to be women.

The most passionate opponents of any restriction on Muslim immigration, in fact, are (a) women, and (b, to judge from newspaper Op-Eds and online commentary) Jewish liberals like Chuck Schumer.

They should form a pressure group together. They could call it WOMEN AND JEWS FOR ISLAM.

As the kids say: Hel- lo? Read more >>