When they respond in anger, you respond in love. That's the Christian way. But that doesn't mean you don't teach the bad actor a few things along the road to redemption. Saul was blinded and needed to see the light on that road to Damascus before that terrorist was redeemed.
There are plenty of conservatives out there who believe that after the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump and the left's outrageous response, they're just the people to fan the flames of that burning bush.
Sometimes a parent has to be stern. Junior's got to sit it out for a minute while he gets his anger under control and can be allowed back into polite society. Sometimes junior can't participate in the reindeer games because he's being a douche. And Ward has to take the Beaver in hand and give him a stern talking to — to make him understand that he should feel shame for what he has done and to make amends.
In a controversial move, a veteran did this by confronting a Home Depot clerk who had written on Facebook that she wished the Trump assassin had been a better shot.
The man wasn't angry. He was pretty measured. He told her he would make her famous. And, oh, he sure did.
After he verified that she made the comment, the man told the clerk waiting on another customer, "You think the shooter should have been a better shot? Is that what you posted on Facebook?" She replied that she was at work, implying that he should buzz off.
"Pretty messed up if you ask me," he told her. "As a veteran, I'm disgusted," he said in a slightly more elevated tone. "What have you provided to this country?" he asked. "This is ridiculous. YOU are ridiculous. And I'm making you famous," he concluded as she reached for the phone to call security.
Watch:
Kudos to this veteran for shaming Karen who posted on FB that Trump’s assassin should have been a better shooter.🔥🔥🔥 pic.twitter.com/vXXhcOZzm6
— I Meme Therefore I Am 🇺🇸 (@ImMeme0) July 14, 2024
I suppose it feels good to confront a wrongdoer, but is it a lasting satisfaction? More to the point, does it teach the other side anything? Maybe it does.
By contrast, the left's "gospel" of Saul Alinsky reads, "Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules. Ridicule is man's most potent weapon."
We've seen the left make up alleged affronts to get people fired, censored, or canceled. Leftists pretend that what conservatives say is "hate" speech, which is effectively "violence." They intentionally misquote, mischaracterize, and demonize to make the sheep believe we are something that we're not. They deplatform our speech, fake "fact check" the right, fraudulently lock them up for being on the premises of a riot, the derivation of which we're still trying to sort out after the government's information operation, and more.
They called Donald Trump a Russian secret agent, investigated him, gave him a wallet biopsy, and then tried to bankrupt him. Then, when he announces he's running for president again, they misuse laws to try to lock him up. And then someone tried to kill him.
At a moment like this, when a former president was nearly assassinated because the highest levels of the left, from the president on down, has consistently depicted Donald Trump as "Hitler," "an existential threat to democracy," and a "semi-fascist" who is a threat to the country, does the right now give the left a small dose of its own medicine?
My colleague Kurt Schlichter at TownHall says hell yes.
He commented on X that it may be unpleasant, but: "[H]ere’s the thing. We’re betraying our own powerless people if we don’t use the power we have to protect them by making the side that imposed these new rules feel the costs."
"We have tried reason. We have tried appeals to simple justice," he pleaded.
"They have failed," he concluded.
And he said it was time to change tactics. The norms we used to live under are gone.
"Now we need to apply punishment. They need to know there is a cost to this. If we fail to impose a cost on them for doing this because doing so is unpleasant, we have betrayed our own people and left them exposed," the former Army colonel and spy thriller author said. "The left will not stop unless it has reason to. This is reason to. Sometimes you have to be stern."
There’s some controversy about this because it’s unpleasant. But here’s the thing. We’re betraying our own powerless people if we don’t use the power we have to protect them by making the side that imposed these new rules feel the costs.
— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) July 17, 2024
We have tried reason. We have tried… https://t.co/PTrfP4CYII
And well-known people who have been in the trenches and suffered for their beliefs came forward to say that Schlichter was absolutely right.
Actor-director Nick Searcy was chief among them. He made a movie about January 6 and saw how the law was twisted to make participants pay for an insurrection that didn't exist and to twist history.
Damn right, my friend. They made these rules and now it’s their turn to not pass GO and go directly to jail or the unemployment line, etc.
— Nick Searcy, INSURRECTIONAL FILM & TELEVISION STAR (@yesnicksearcy) July 17, 2024
It’s fair if it happens to both sides equally. If they don’t like the rules, they can change them like they did before.
Self-defense lawyer Andrew Branca added an amen.
This is the correct answer.
— Law of Self Defense (@LawSelfDefense) July 17, 2024
"Cynical Publius" said, "Kurt, you probably posted, 'You're not going to like the new rules' a bazillion times. We warned them."
It's not like we did not warn them to knock it off--over and over and over.
— Cynical Publius (@CynicalPublius) July 17, 2024
Kurt you probably posted "You're not going to like the new rules" a bazillion times.
We warned them. The warning stage is coming to an end and the action stage is beginning.
Others told him that it was a short-lived win, and you give up the moral authority with these tactics. Censorship doesn't beget free speech, killing a little guy's job doesn't win you back yours, and two wrongs don't make a right.
Ben Carson put it in perspective during the GOP convention on Tuesday night, as the Vigilant Fox captured on X.
“I saw President Trump, a dear friend, escape death by mere inches. And my thoughts immediately turned to the book of Isaiah that says, ‘No weapon formed against you shall prosper.’”
• “First, they tried to ruin his reputation, and he's more popular now than ever.
• “And then they tried to bankrupt him. And he's got more money now than he had before.”
• “And then they tried to put him in prison, and he's freer and has made other people free with him.”
• “And then last weekend, they tried to kill him. And there he is over there, alive and well.”
Dr. Ben Carson Brings Down the House with Epic Trump Tribute
— The Vigilant Fox 🦊 (@VigilantFox) July 17, 2024
“I saw President Trump, a dear friend, escape death by mere inches. And my thoughts immediately turned to the book of Isaiah that says, ‘No weapon formed against you shall prosper.’”
• “First, they tried to ruin his… pic.twitter.com/MFsVLE781F
His point was that Trump emerged triumphant because it was God doing the teaching. "Vengeance is mine, sayeth the Lord."
I want these bastards to pay too. That lady lost her job.
Ask God to exact vengeance. Use the righteous tools you have to bring the bad actors to justice. Mock them. Show them. Shame them. Don't destroy them like they do us. We know de-Bathification doesn't work.
And remember, we should be working for revival instead of retribution.
Let the criticism begin in the comments section.
