There's nothing over the top about saying that the Left is waging civil war

There may - may- have been some justification in claiming so a few years ago, but at this point it would be such an understatement as to be irresponsible.

The freedom-haters are playing for keeps.

Check out this report, not only for coverage of what happened to Andy Ngo, but the spin some tried to put on it, and some backstory on previous praise for Antifa:

Quillette editor Andy Ngo was attacked with fists and cement on Saturday at an Antifa rally in Portland. Ngo’s recording equipment was stolen, but footage of the latter parts of the assault were uploaded to Twitter by Oregonian reporter Jim Ryan.

The milkshakes-as-weaponry concept has morphed into something really ugly since it was introduced:

Portland PD has asked people on Twitter to report instances of milkshakes being thrown at the Antifa demonstrations because some were filled with quick-drying cement.

And here's some of the lame spin:

New York Times opinion writer Charlie Warzel referred to the attack as being in the context of an “information war”, implying that Ngo is nefariously weaponizing the fact that Antifa is violent for the sake of obtaining “ammunition for a culture war.”

Middle East Eye journalist CJ Werleman falsely accused Ngo of being “one of the leading amplifiers of Islamophobia” and “participat[ing] in white supremacist violence,” implying that Ngo deserved the beating. Rolling Stone and Vice Contributor Dan O’Sullivan criticized Jake Tapper for Tapper’s criticism of Antifa violence.

And this:

Freelance writer Rob Roussau mocked Ngo, tweeting, “I can’t believe that the totally objective ‘journalist’ who shows up to every far right protest in order to sanitize what they’re doing and claim the people who oppose them are The Real Fascists wasn’t welcomed with open arms by antifa today. you hate to see it.”

Mashable reporter Matt Binder implied that Ngo must have deserved it because there were other photographers and reporters present with Ngo being the only one getting beaten.

The propaganda arm of the enemy has been spinning Antifa for a while:

Multiple CNN hosts have defended Antifa in the past. “It says it right there in the name- Antifa: anti-fascist, which is what they were there fighting,” Don Lemon said on June 29 of last year. “No organization is perfect.” Lemon’s CNN colleague Chris Cuomo argued that Antifa are the modern-day D-Day soldiers storming the Normandy beaches.

An "assistant professor of human rights" (a sure sign that she holds actual human rights in the ultimate disdain), writing in the New York Times, says it's time to dox border-patrol personnel, but just to make sure not to call it that:

New York Times author Kate Cronin-Furman, an assistant professor of human rights, wrote an op-ed on Saturday entitled “The Treatment of Migrants Likely ‘Meets the Definition of a Mass Atrocity’.” Her lede? “Children are suffering and dying. The fastest way to stop it is to make sure those responsible, including the foot soldiers, face consequences.” Cronin-Furman emphasizes that   “this is not an argument for doxxing.”

She sure could have fooled us. She writes:

The identities of the individual Customs and Border Protection agents who are physically separating children from their families and staffing the detention centers are not undiscoverable. Immigration lawyers have agent names; journalists reporting at the border have names, photos and even videos. These agents’ actions should be publicized, particularly in their home communities.

This is not an argument for doxxing — it’s about exposure of their participation in atrocities to audiences whose opinion they care about. The knowledge, for instance, that when you go to church on Sunday, your entire congregation will have seen you on TV ripping a child out of her father’s arms is a serious social cost to bear. The desire to avoid this kind of social shame may be enough to persuade some agents to quit and may hinder the recruitment of replacements. For those who won’t (or can’t) quit, it may induce them to treat the vulnerable individuals under their control more humanely. In Denmark during World War II, for instance, strong social pressure, including from the churches, contributed to the refusal of the country to comply with Nazi orders to deport its Jewish citizens.

Here's the difference, you slime bucket: the Danish Jews in the 1940s were Danish citizens. They already legally lived there. The people in detention centers on the US southern border came in illegally. They are not supposed to be here.  

And remember the Red Hen, the Virginia restaurant in the cute little cottage, at which a dinner party including Sarah Huckabee Sanders was asked to leave? Well, check this out. The owner sees justification for Eric Trump getting spit on at a Manhattan restaurant:

After recounting what happened to Trump, she writes, “no one in the industry condones the physical assault of a patron.” That seems sensible but we’re only halfway through the piece. Next comes the justification for the new rules:

…at bottom this isn’t about politics. It’s about values, and accountability to values, in business. On a variety of levels, pressure is increasing on companies to articulate and stand by a code. Customers are demonstrating that they want to patronize companies that share their values. Our workforce also increasingly demands that employers establish a set of ethical standards. The once-ubiquitous idea that companies exist purely and solely to provide profit to shareholders is withering away like corn husks in the summer sun.

The rules have shifted. It’s no longer okay to serve sea bass from overfished waters or to allow smoking at the table. It’s not okay to look away from the abusive chef in the kitchen or the handsy guest in the dining room. And it’s not okay to ask employees, partners or management to clock out of their consciences when they clock in to work…

The high-profile clashes rarely involve one citizen fussing at another over the entrees. It’s more often a frustrated person (some of whom are restaurant employees) lashing out at the representatives of an administration that has made its name trashing norms and breaking backs. Not surprising, if you think about it: You can’t call people your enemies by day and expect hospitality from them in the evening.

So when the day comes that the world feels returned to its normal axis, I expect we’ll see fewer highly charged encounters making headlines. In the meantime, the new rules apply. If you’re directly complicit in spreading hate or perpetuating suffering, maybe you should consider dining at home.

Like 10,000 resistance progressives before her, Wilkinson is claiming that Trump grants the left an exception to all the normal rules of social conduct. No one is for assaulting strangers in restaurants, she says, but on the other hand, he’s a Trump so the new rules apply.

So think about how the creatures who dish out the venom to you in social-media comment threads would deal with you if you were to encounter them in person. 

This is war, plain and simple. 

Your existence is not to be tolerated.