Ken Berwitz
pyrrhic victory: a victory that is not worth winning because the winner has lost so much in winning it: Cambridge dictionaries
Chicago knows a lot about pyrrhic victories. The 1968 Democrat convention, which likely propelled Richard Nixon into the White House, was as good an example as you can find in modern politics.
Well, the hard leftists and supporters of the racist hate group, #blacklivesmatter – a combination we see more and more these days – won another pyrrhic victory there last night.
Hundreds, possibly over a thousand, “protesters” showed up at Donald Trump\’s scheduled rally at the University of Illinois – Chicago. Some of them might have been there to peacefully assemble and state their opposition to Trump. But you would never have known that, since it became clear early on that the real purpose was to prevent Trump from speaking at all.
Just like the good fascists, good brownshirts, that they apparently see as role models.
And when the rally was canceled, depriving many thousands who came there to hear Mr. Trump from doing so, these fascist brownshirts were dancing in the aisles, screaming “We won!” and “We shut it down!”.
But what about the Mayor? Surely he knew this was coming, since it was organized on social media. So he sent the police out in force with orders to absolutely, positively allow free speech to take place, right?
Uh…let me amend that: The Democrat Mayor who is busy trying to keep his job by kissing the backsides of “blacklivesmatter, and the police, which are currently overseeing a violent crime wave the likes of which Chicago has not had in many years, because it is afraid of the political implications if it aggressively polices highest-crime areas of the city, which are almost all in Black neighborhoods – thus putting the safety and well-being of every decent Black person in those neighborhoods in greater jeopardy than they already are.
What a surprise that law and order did not prevail.
So what is the result of this “victory”? How do you think the country views what happened in Chicago?
Does it support the anarchy in the streets that we saw in Chicago, or the freedom of a candidate, regardless of his views, to speak before thousands of people who came to hear him – also known as freedom of speech?
Does it generate anger for Donald Trump? Or sympathy and support?
Does it make Republicans with misgivings about Donald Trump, independents, and, I suspect, a good many moderate Democrats (one of the most disenfranchised groups in the USA) less likely to be favorably disposed toward him? Or more so?
Does a “victory” by the hard left and racist haters lessen Donald Trump\’s chances to win the Republican nomination and be voted into the White House or increase them?
If you ever wanted to see a pyrrhic victory, you got your wish last night.
Now: What are Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders – the intended beneficiaries of the fascists/brownshirts, both of whom have expressed sympathy towards the hard left and the #blacklivesmatter racists long before what happened last night, going to say about it – keeping in mind that they cannot possibly afford to anger the groups who shut Trump down?
The answer, almost certainly, is that they will toss out a few hackneyed cliches deploring anger and violence – on both sides, of course, as if there were any equality at all in this situation – and express the hope for more civil discourse in the future, while reminding us all that Donald Trump\’s positions were the catalyst (i.e. “yeah, I\’m saying both sides were wrong, but it was his fault”).
We\’ll be talking more about this, as the reaction to what happened last night continues to develop.
