America’s left-wing fringe, which is increasingly indistinguishable from the Democratic Party mainstream, absolutely hates our nation.
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which → hat → nation
Take the latest example: Jonathan Andrew Tijerina, the punk who just desecrated the 9/11 Memorial Reflecting Pool in downtown Manhattan.
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who → take → Manhattan
Earlier this week, Tijerina was arrested and charged for an act of brazen, iconoclastic vandalism.
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Tijerina → arrest → vandalism
In broad daylight, the 31-year-old spray-painted — over the engraved names of dozens of those killed on that terrible day 25 years ago — a plug for his silly little anti-gun website: “Juststopkillingkids.com.”
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old → paint → website
Tijerina made no attempt to hide his dirty deed.
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Tijerina → make → deed
On the contrary, he boasted about it on social media, saying he was “trying to spread awareness” about gun violence.
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he → boast → violence
One imagines Hamas’ paragliders said the same thing as they donned GoPro cameras before swooping into the Nova music festival.
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they → imagine → festival
But if the goal was to spread awareness of Tijerina’s utter callousness, then he was successful.
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he → spread → callousness
The human atrocities of 9/11 are not from a distant past — something we’ve only encountered in a history textbook.
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we → encounter → textbook
Real families continue grappling with the fallout: Husbands are still grieving fallen wives; young adults are still mourning lost fathers.
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adults → grapple → fathers
It appears Tijerina targeted panels 70 and 71 of the memorial, which list the names of the murdered workers from Windows on the World, the dining complex at the top of the North Tower.
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which → appear → Tower
They were average Joes and Janes who just went to work as chefs and waiters on that pristine Tuesday morning.
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who → go → morning
Tijerina defaced them heedlessly.
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Tijerina → deface → them
He should rot in jail for a while, but he probably won’t, not while Soros-backed Alvin Bragg remains Manhattan’s district attorney.
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Bragg → rot → while
But the issue is much bigger than one dim-witted and attention-starved punk.
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issue → starve → punk
We can — and should — draw a direct line from Tijerina’s stunt to the sacrilegious monument and statue vandalism that was a staple of the 2020 Black Lives Matter uproar.
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that → draw → uproar
During that dreadful summer’s “1619 Riots,” leftist agitators defaced or tore down statues of Christopher Columbus, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Ulysses S. Grant, Francis Scott Key and countless others.
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agitators → deface → Columbus
Not even preserving the Union and ending slavery was enough to satiate the anarchists: They went after Abraham Lincoln, too.
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They → preserve → Lincoln
In 1861, the Great Emancipator praised “the mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land.”
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Emancipator → praise → land
With the nation on the cusp of ruinous carnage, Lincoln appealed to “the better angels of our nature.”
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Lincoln → appeal → nature
It didn’t work.
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It → work → ?
Fort Sumter was attacked just over a month later.
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Sumter → attack → ?
But Lincoln made a profound point: A nation needs a shared memory and a shared consciousness.
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nation → make → memory
It needs shared cultural touchstones, and it needs a shared sense of that which is sacred and that which is profane.
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which → need → that
Do we share any of those things today?
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we → share → things
Many on the left are summoning the worse angels of their nature to answer resoundingly: “No.”
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Many → summon → nature
The left is now dominated by an anti-American movement that hates our history — even its most uncontroversial heroes, as the Washington and Lincoln defacements show.
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defacements → dominate → history
It hates our people — and perhaps especially our working and middle classes, as Tijerina’s Windows on the World slip proved.
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slip → hat → World
It hates all of it — and all of us.
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It → hat → us
It rejects our particular “mystic chords of memory” for the Marxist fantasy of a universal revolution of the proletariat.
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It → reject → proletariat
It rejects our biblical inheritance for the unholy “red-green” stew of ersatz-religious wokeism and fanatical-religious Islamism.
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It → reject → wokeism
It rejects our constitutional order for what Lincoln, in an 1838 speech, decried as the “mobocratic spirit.”
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Lincoln → reject → spirit
In our own era, the defining divide is between civilization and barbarism.
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divide → define → civilization
A Third Worldist mind virus is metastasizing like a cancer on the American left.
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virus → metastasize → left
The Third Worldists have nothing but scorn for the nation that is the economic, entrepreneurial and cultural envy of the whole world — the rest of the First World included.
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that → have → World
They want to tear it all down.
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They → want → it
And some of them, like Tijerina and the 2020 rioters, take that sentiment quite literally.
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some → take → sentiment
Given the stark dichotomy of the moment, let’s fervently hope that will be more than enough to prevail in the elections this Tuesday.
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that → give → elections
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