Sara Bedford has written a Washington Examiner story titled, “What protests in the street have in common with deep-pocketed radical movements.” It is behind a paywall but here are some excerpts:
Millions of people took to the streets to protest something in mid-October. What that was, exactly, was less clear. Billed as “No Kings” protests against an American monarchy that does not exist, the demonstrations took aim at a host of things that also do not exist in America: fascism, military occupations, and a vast conspiracy to cover up an Epstein-Trump sex ring.
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“The hard Left has a much more ambitious agenda than the suburban white woman who holds a No Kings sign out on the street corner,” Peter Flaherty, chairman and chief executive officer of the National Legal and Policy Center, told the Washington Examiner. “It’s really a struggle for control of what’s left of the Democratic Party.”
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“The Left likes polarization,” said Flaherty of the National Legal and Policy Center. “The Left benefits by confrontation. If you look at the last round of No Kings protests, it was very revealing, because even though Indivisible is kind of the vanguard, they had a coalition of 200 groups, and in some cities like New York, groups like the Communist Party USA were what they call partners. So Indivisible has no enemies on the Left, and I think it just shows that Marxist-Leninism is part of their DNA in that they actually view violence as a tool that will help them achieve power.”
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“We’re not talking about a mobilization of liberals,” Flaherty said. “We’re talking about a broader movement that, when the time comes, will be happy to utilize violence to achieve their goals.”
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“What’s going to trigger the next round of violence? I don’t know,” he added. “But I do know that Western economies are long overdue for a crisis. I believe the Left will be ready to capitalize on it. I think they can turn a monetary crisis into a crisis in capitalism and democracy itself, and that’s their goal.
