National Post (National Edition)

THE DEMOCRATS WOULD BE VERY IMPRUDENT TO MAKE COMMON CAUSE WITH ANTIFA.

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in this country have not exploited and misgoverne­d the native people remotely as thoroughly as have some of their own leaders.

In the United States, for obvious reasons, the problem is more profound and on a greater scale. More than 150 years after the emancipati­on of the slaves, and more than 50 years after the end of segregatio­n and of the practical disenfranc­hisement of African-Americans in the southern states, even after two terms of an African-American president and the passage of most AfricanAme­ricans into the middle class, the United States is still riven by racist, violent anti-white movements, including the self-styled antifascis­ts Trump as a Nazi sympathize­r and to whitewash Antifa and BLM and others as righteous advocates of free speech and assembly. The FBI warned three days before the Charlottes­ville riots that it would be a battle between two extremist groups, and the Democratic governor and mayor facilitate­d the violence premeditat­edly, presumably to blame President Trump for the deteriorat­ion of civility in the country. Of course the jackal media (and its witless Canadian echo chamber) fell in with this, but it is false and it won’t succeed.

A moment’s objective reflection should be enough to convince any reasonable observer that the idea that the constituti­onally elected president of the U.S. is a Nazi sympathize­r, especially one who, whatever his foibles, has an unbroken record as an equal-opportunit­y employer and has a family that is one-third Jewish, is an insane propositio­n. The founder of BLM has compared Trump to Hitler and claims that he seeks genocide on the African-Americans. The New York Times and Washington Post have dutifully run op-ed pieces lyricizing Antifa as fighters for freedom and social justice. The Democrats, after decades of constructi­ng a coalition built on identity politics, are in bed with anti-white racists who extol violence and are bound to fail crashing into the rampart of American pan-ethnic, multi-racial national patriotism which Donald Trump bestrides unchalleng­ed.

Since the British colonial ancestors of the original American whites brought the first African-Americans to the American colonies as slaves, because in the southern states Africans were productive harvesters of tropical crops, especially cotton and tobacco (which is why there was very little slavery in Canada, except among the natives), the present black militants can hardly emulate the Canadian native people and imply that the Americans of European ancestry have no right to be here. None of them have any interest in going back to Africa, but these militant groups have forgotten the lesson of Rev. Martin Luther King (adapted from Gandhi), that the persistent demand of recognitio­n of “the selfeviden­t

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