The violence is certain to increase, but barring some serious breakdown that destabilizes the foundations of our civilization, it’ll be a long time before a major fracturing occurs.
As far as I am concerned Rod Dreher is a bad actor and is no different from an AntiFa Leftist. He used his political clout to deliberately target another anti-Leftist who has a family for opinions voiced outside of his professional capacity. Frankly that is not even a Christian act.
Lyons is anonymous but appears to be someone in the State Dept or CIA Far East desk. He knows his stuff and writes generally very conservatively (meant as "calmly and well thought out" not in a political sense.) That's why this piece stands out. He agrees with your position.
Conservatives are structurally resistant to alterations in social norms and rules, which places us at a disadvantage when the Left changes said rules (vote harvesting for example). "A few sham indictments of federal officials in red states" is a great example of this. We don't have to like political lawfare, but those are the rules the Left has made, so we must learn to play by them.
The Lyons article is very long but is one of the more important things you will read on this subject, I think.
As far as I am concerned Rod Dreher is a bad actor and is no different from an AntiFa Leftist. He used his political clout to deliberately target another anti-Leftist who has a family for opinions voiced outside of his professional capacity. Frankly that is not even a Christian act.
Max, I don't see N.S. Lyons on your substack reading list, so you likely didn't see this:
https://theupheaval.substack.com/p/the-china-convergence
Lyons is anonymous but appears to be someone in the State Dept or CIA Far East desk. He knows his stuff and writes generally very conservatively (meant as "calmly and well thought out" not in a political sense.) That's why this piece stands out. He agrees with your position.
Conservatives are structurally resistant to alterations in social norms and rules, which places us at a disadvantage when the Left changes said rules (vote harvesting for example). "A few sham indictments of federal officials in red states" is a great example of this. We don't have to like political lawfare, but those are the rules the Left has made, so we must learn to play by them.
The Lyons article is very long but is one of the more important things you will read on this subject, I think.
I know Rod Dreher thinks the world of Lyons, but I haven't been able to find the mental bandwidth to follow him. I'll try to check out that essay.
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