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https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/03/the_escalating_leftist_violence_against_conservatives_from_trump_and_musk_on_down.html

The news lately has been filled with stories of the escalating violence against conservatives. We already saw it last year with the two assassination attempts against Donald Trump, but it’s now spread to Musk, Vance, and conservatives generally. As with the blasphemous song a so-called “transgender” person sang at the Bernie rally, I can’t say I’m surprised. Some things are predictable, and leftist violence, especially when you’ve driven your supporters insane, is especially predictable.  

I don’t need to rehash the Butler assassination attempt that Trump survived by a millisecond and millimeter. Nor do I need to remind you about the wannabe assassin at Mar-a-Lago.

But for the left, two missed assassination attempts aren’t a sign of societal breakdown; they’re a sign of failure, which needs to be remedied. So it was that a UCLA professor (that is, a man making his money on the public dime) is urging the military to engage in a violent coup against President Trump.

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/21465/manhattan-project-for-fusion-energy

Tariffs, Ukraine, DOGE, the budget, NATO, the Middle East; the headlines are dominated by daily issues that demand our attention, but they also serve to distract us from the strategic issues that will determine who will be the dominant superpower during the remaining years of 21st Century.

So, it should come as no surprise that China is currently investing billions of dollars to create unlimited power by seeking to conquer the challenging technology of fusion power.

Media reports suggest that Beijing is investing anywhere between $1 billion and $1.5 billion annually into fusion research. One Washington energy insider told the press, “…What’s more important than the number, it’s actually how fast they’re doing this.”

Equally telling is one report, which observed that China’s patents on crucial aspects of fusion technology are more than any other country, including our own.

China’s pursuit of unlimited energy is not just about powering cities and electric vehicles. The most major breakthroughs in artificial intelligence (AI) will come about when one country’s computers have access to unlimited power. The country that can lead in AI development will become the next global superpower.

Americans understand the threat. It is important to revisit a national survey recently conducted by President Donald J. Trump’s pollster, McLaughlin & Associates. A significant majority of citizens recognize the danger and want Washington to safeguard our future by investing in fusion energy.

Trump has much on his plate, but the poll revealed that three-in-five voters are concerned that China’s fusion energy leadership could place America’s leadership in jeopardy. The issue should receive the funding priority from Washington that it demands.

https://www.city-journal.org/article/civil-terrorism-anti-israel-radicals?utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-

Masked criminals attacked several Citibank locations in New York City one night last September. They brandished no guns and demanded no cash. Instead, they squeezed epoxy and cemented stickers on debit-card readers, damaged door locks, and vandalized windows with profanities and threats of future violence. Rather than keep their identities hidden, the marauders filmed their work and posted it to their enterprise’s Instagram page. “Unity of Fields,” the recently rebranded group formerly known as Palestine Action US—the new name comes from a Palestinian Islamic Jihad call for violence across the world—included a lengthy caption in the post, exhorting followers: “These actions are not hard to do. Please escalate for Palestine and humanity. We will not rest until Palestine is liberated from the river to the sea.”

Over the last few years, but especially since Hamas massacred Israeli civilians on October 7, 2023, this type of organized criminal mayhem has increasingly become part of American life. The criminal bands that have arisen act for ideological reasons. They operate where they believe that they have the most latitude: on college campuses and in Democratic-controlled jurisdictions. And their beliefs are overwhelmingly left-wing: radically environmentalist (“Just Stop Oil”), anarcho-socialist (Antifa), and, most often, anti-Israel.

A framework beyond protest politics and civil disobedience is needed to understand this phenomenon. Today’s left-wing agitators deploy random acts of lawlessness designed to inconvenience and disrupt as many civilians as possible, hoping to pressure them to get the government to change course. This tactic is reasonably described as a form of terrorism, though the activists aren’t murderous like al-Qaida or Hamas—they don’t use guns, bombs, or threats of unpredictable bloodshed. Instead, they engage in civil terrorism.

Though some of these groups, like Antifa, are loosely connected networks of the like-minded, the ascendant anti-Israel, and more broadly anti-Western, outfits come with brand names. Within Our Lifetime, Jewish Voice for Peace, Palestine Action, Samidoun, Students for Justice in Palestine, Party for Socialism and Liberation, Palestinian Youth Movement, IfNotNow, and more—the names signal that the chaos they sow is intentional. Like Unity of Fields, they take credit for their actions and try to stoke more unrest through social media. They put their names on the banners, signs, and other paraphernalia that their members and sympathizers display at “direct actions.”

https://bda1776.substack.com/p/insanity-immorality-conspiratorial?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=4

Now, on to the topic of the day. Follow the money! Or at least look for it.

Over a decade ago, I began to notice that more and more of my friends were spouting dangerous, hateful, nonsensical garbage. Then I noticed that the problem was hardly restricted to my friends. There seemed to be a groundswell of support for charged beliefs running counter to all available evidence.

You all know some of the top line absurdities, but just to clarify with a few examples: Men cannot become women, the U.S. is not overrun with violent racist cops, and a climate catastrophe is not imminent.

Then came Covid and all bets were off. For three years we were fed a steady stream of nonsense—pronouncements that not only proved to be wrong after the fact, but that made no sense when they were first uttered—yet plenty of “serious” people accepted them as Gospel. Asking basic questions was treated as blasphemy.

Totalitarianism emanated far beyond the weaponization of public health. Violent race rioters burning down business districts were mostly peaceful. An election employing the least credible procedures in American history was the most secure our country had ever seen. Unarmed trespassers wandering through a donnybrook in the Capitol Building sought to bring down the American government. Eliminating cheap and efficient energy was the key to our economic success. An obvious dementia patient was sharp as a tack and in full command of the country.

It was hard to escape the feeling that we were living in an insane asylum—and that the worst of the inmates were firmly in charge. The only plausible alternative was even scarier: We were living through a moral inversion, in which decency was vilified and villainy extolled.