THERE is a saying – not an old one, because I just made it up – that the best way to get into a fight is to start one, and with impressive speed, those who participated in, encouraged, enabled or are sympathetic to the violent attempted coup in the United States last Wednesday are being made to realize the essential truth of that observation.
That the reaction of people who have actual social and democratic ideals was swift and noisy should have been expected; after all, this is the vast class of people that is snidely generalized as “wokes,” and “cancel culture” by the anti-reason right. What seems to have taken most on the right by surprise, however, is how brutally practical the left’s counterpunches can be.
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