Thursday, June 25, 2020

Nihilism in Madison

Let's put the exit question on the front end: Is this an instance of the Left eating its own to a sufficient degree to cause the general post-American public to conclude that these people don't have any aims beyond burning it all down?

A guy wielding a baseball bat and a bullhorn goes nuts in a Capitol Square restaurant in Madison, Wisconsin. His real name is Devonere Johnson, but is calling himself Yeshua Musa. He harasses a patron who walks away. Cops are summoned. Johnson resists arrest, to the point of escaping from the back of the police vehicle and running across the street, where he's tackled and sufficiently subdued to get him cuffed and back in the vehicle.

Turns out he's rather a fixture at local Black Lives Matter events.

A crowd gathered and blocked traffic. It engaged in some window-smashing at a couple of government office buildings. It chanted "Free Yeshua!" It toppled a statue of Hans Christian Heg, a Norwegian immigrant and abolitionist who served as a Union officer in the Civil War. It toppled a statue called Forward, erected in 1893 to commemorate the progress toward equality of Wisconsin women. It beat the holy snot out of a gay progressive Democrat state senator, kicking him in the head and leaving him lying on the ground. Thankfully, an ambulance was quickly summoned.

I repeat: is this the extreme Left's jump-the-shark moment, or are they just getting their head of steam?

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