The deal is that they want to create a reaction which promotes recruiting. It seems that virtually all of Charlottesville was false flag, but they still got a national reaction.
They only gain strength, though, when opposed violently. That is why they had to engineer a violent confrontation, so they could claim innocence, even though they showed up in masks with baseball bats and 2×4’s.
Here is the truth: ordinary Americans occupy the moral high ground. This consists in moderates of both sides, but since they are not attacking people with D behind their names, it means in practice political conservatives and anyone who calls themselves a Republican (obviously, there is some overlap, but distressingly enough, not as much as there should be).
Non-violent resistance is the OBVIOUS answer to all this. Yes, of course MLK Jr. had the media, and we don’t. But every time we feed the fire, it gets worse.
Trump remains President. He has been attacked viciously and often all his life. I’m not sure he likes it, but he certainly does not shy away from it. Even though Congress is acting in a morally cowardly way, we do still have both parts of Congress, and absolute majorities in over half the States in America.
This is no time to panic. This is no time to let anyone dictate the game to us.
It annoys me that they attack these monuments, but the fact of the matter is that they don’t matter to most of us one way or the other. Most of us have never met anyone who had anything directly to do with that war, because it would have been a grandfathers grandfather.
We can’t let them get our goat. Yes, violence is an easy answer, but it is an easy wrong answer.
The simple reality is that these are cowardly losers being funded by psychopaths, who want nothing more than to foment conflict they can exploit for political gain. This is a harder game we are being asked to play, but fuck, we are not the whiny losers. We are the winners. And we are winning. Let’s stay on track.
Edit: I am presently suffering compassion fatigue. I think it was the nails one of them put on their 2×4 in the Boston protests, or perhaps a group of them accusing a veteran of being “Nazi scum”.
Time is on our side. The optics on all this are horrible, and cannot but play to Trump’s strengths. It doesn’t matter, OBVIOUSLY, what the media says, and it does not matter what the polling says. All we have to do is stay in the game to keep racking up points they can’t match.