There is a cancer in the body politic. We must cut it out, or be destroyed.
By Ben Shapiro
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/450462/antifa-alt-right-twin-cancers-eating-americaAmerica has cancer.
On Saturday, a crowd of alt-right white supremacists, neo-confederates, and Nazi sympathizers marched in
Charlottesville, Va.; they were confronted by a large group of protesters including members of the Marxist
Antifa — a group that has time and again plunged volatile situations into violence, from Sacramento to
Berkeley. There’s still no certain knowledge of who began the violence, but before long, the sides had broken
into the sort of brutal scrum that used to characterize Weimer-era Germany. The two sides then carried the
red banner and the swastika; so did the combatants on Saturday.
Then a Nazi-sympathizing alt-right 20-year-old Ohioan plowed his car into a crowd of protesters, killing one
and injuring 19. The president of the United States promptly failed egregiously to condemn alt-right racism;
instead, he opted for a milquetoast statement condemning “hatred, bigotry, and violence on many sides” . . .
. . . [H]ere we stand: On the one side, a racist, identity-politics Left dedicated to the proposition that white
people are innate beneficiaries of privilege and therefore must be excised from political power; on the other
side, a reactionary, racist, identity-politics alt-right dedicated to the proposition that white people are innate
victims of the social-justice class and therefore must regain political power through race-group solidarity . . .
. . . Obama’s repeated references to American racism weren’t his only sin. He repeatedly shunned opportunities
to tamp down leftist racial radicalism . . .
Meanwhile, on the right, Trump did the same. During the campaign, he ignored opportunity after opportunity
to break with the alt-right . . .
. . . That’s why Charlottesville matters: not only because we saw destruction and terror, but because if all
Americans of good conscience won’t do some soul-searching and move to excise the evil in their midst, that
evil will metastasize. There is a cancer in the body politic. We must cut it out, or be destroyed.
