The intolerance of the Left

Pity actress Nicole Kidman. From YourNewsWire:

Nicole Kidman has had contracts cancelled by two Hollywood studios and has been warned by “famous liberal celebrities” to “steer clear of the Oscars“, according to a source at Creative Artists Agency in Los Angeles.

Kidman has also received threatening letters telling her to “go back where you came from” sent by intolerant liberals, despite the fact she was born in Hawaii and holds dual US-Australian citizenship.

Why all the hate? Because on January 10th, Nicole Kidman, a Hollywood A-lister, dared to go against the Hollywood agenda and told an interviewer that “we need to support whoever is the president”.

This is the kind of intolerance you would expect in Nazi Germany or Soviet-era Russia, not modern America, especially not from our so-called open-minded and enlightened progressives. And yet...

This is not the only example. What we saw last weekend, at both the inauguration protests and the so-called "Women's Marches" the following day, the Left was out in full force to shut down President Trump even before he could do a single thing.

Ed Morrisey said it best:

Even during an inauguration of a new president, where we can all take pride in the peaceful transfer of power that the American experiment brought to the world, rational demonstrations based on real issues can remind us of the need to keep working for better outcomes.

That, however, was not what we saw on Inauguration Day. It didn’t start on Inauguration Day, either, or even on Inauguration Eve. This started immediately after the election, when those on the losing side of the election began dubbing themselves “The Resistance.”

This grandiose and pretentious appellation insults those who actually have to live under authoritarian regimes...

Those who lose elections in free countries are the opposition, and can fix that by winning the next election. Instead of asking why they lost, the “resistance” decided to pretend the loss of an election amounts to oppression and have adopted the language of revolution to rally themselves.

That incendiary language didn’t just get adopted by a few on the fringe, but by many on the left, including some in the news and entertainment media.

Language matters, and on Inauguration Eve, the tension erupted into riots. Pro-Trump groups organized supporters for a celebration at the National Press Club they dubbed “The DeploraBall,” a play on Hillary Clinton’s insult. The event was organized by independent groups and didn’t include any incoming Trump administration officials.

Even so, protesters agitated against Trump outside, a demonstration that turned violent when some of them started throwing smoke bombs at police, who had lined up to keep the activists out of the celebration inside.

After two hours of rioting, police finally began using pepper spray to disperse the crowds, but not before some cops got hit with bottles. Some of the demonstrators set fires, while demanding Congress “impeach the predatory president.”

By the next day, the nation’s capital suffered widespread rioting. Hooligans smashed windows, set fires, threw bricks and attempted to block the entrances to the inauguration. More than two hours after the inauguration, a mass of rioters began setting fires on K Street. By 2 p.m., police had already arrested 90 people, and the unrest was growing.

The Daily Beast’s description of these protesters as “anti-fascists” stretches the definition of irony. The protesters weren’t demonstrating against any specific action by Trump, because he had not yet taken office at that time. They were protesting against his election victory and wanted it negated — and at groups like DisruptJ20, they used violence to try to get their way.

While I didn't vote for Trump, this kind of behavior makes him look sympathetic, and forces libertarians like me into his camp of supporters. For all his flaws, Trump has yet to show any of the fascist tendencies of which his detractors on the Left accuse him. But many on the Left are clearly displaying these tendencies.

Contrary to the Left's rhetoric, they aren't about equality or civil rights, especially when they want to void a fair and free election result. They are about totalitarianism, and shutting down any dissent to their socialist/progressive/communist views. The Left scares me much more than my worst nightmare about a Trump presidency.