Thread by @JMichaelWaller

1) The fact that House Judiciary Committee Chairman @RepJerryNadler helped release the terrorist who bombed the US Capitol is not surprising.

It is no surprise that federal lawmakers and other insiders support Antifa and BLM violence. This has gone on for decades.

2) In 1987, National Review ran a piece, "Congress's Red Army," which I co-authored. Here are highlights. @NRO

"The country is said to be moving to the right, but you wouldn't know it among by the Democrats. During the Reagan years they have moved sharply and quickly leftward."

3) Regarding a congressman Crockett who had long defended Communist Party members:

"The man who once obstreperously represented Communists before a congressional committee has now been given a committee of his own. No, Crockett hasn't changed; the Democrats have."

4) "It is now anti-Communists, not Communists, who have to operate clandestinely and fear exposure by congressional investigators."

Then-Rep. Henry Hyde: "'Marxist thought' now enjoys 'respectability' on Capitol Hill." (Remember, this was written in 1987.)

5) "After Senator Christopher Dodd...gave the nationally televised 'Democratic Response' to Ronald Reagan's 1983 address on Central America, a Soviet diplomat named Viktor Gonchar praised Dodd's reply as 'a perfect Marxist-Leninist analysis.'"

Dodd is vetting VP's for @JoeBiden.

6) "It's getting harder and harder for all sides to tell the Democratic line from the Soviet one.

"Part of the reason for the Soviet-Democratic convergence is the Democrats' obsessive Reaganspite."

Just like Trump Derangement Syndrome today.

7) "Partisan fury has boiled over the normal restraints of patriotism....

"Both Houses of Congress have hard cores of leftist ideologues.... They face very little opposition within their own party....

8) "Connecting the dots in this manner is usually called imputing 'guilt by association.' But much depends on whether Communism is a matter of guilt. The Dem Left obviously doesn't regard it as such....

"They don't disown Communism, and other Democrats don't disown them."

9) "But probably few if any on the Dem Left actually have secret Soviet ties. [I was in error with this statement.] Most don't need them, and they have strong reasons to avoid them....

"Their own outlook drives them to oppose Ronald Reagan rather than the Soviet Union."

10) "They don't care if their conduct helps the Soviets. 'They regard the United States as the cause of most of the world's troubles,' says one House Republican.

"They aren't taking their lead from the Soviets, but they wouldn't vote much differently if they did."

11) "It's as if the New Left has grown up and gone to Congress."

Which is exactly what has happened. That's how we got a House Judiciary Committee chairman who freed the Weather Underground terrorist who bombed the US Capitol.

12 "One Democrat who gets furious about shady contributions to the Contras is said to have taken a $500 campaign contribution from a pair of Soviet spies on whose behalf he had interceded...

"Why don't moderate Democrats pipe up? Gingrich thinks they're in 'terror' of the Left."

13) And this terrorization of moderates, like Antifa does today, is how the extremists take over institutions.

The silence of mainstream Democrats in the face of Antifa/BLM violence today proves our point from 1987, as @newtgingrich noted at the time.

14) The mainstream Democrat lawmakers were silent as the extremists took over because, as a California congressman told us in 1987, "They want those promotions and chairmanships."

15) Big Media have ALWAYS covered up. See what we wrote in 1987:

"One problem the Democrats don't face is an adversary press. The major media ignore their excesses. Finding scandal on the right is investigative journalism; finding it on the left, though, would be McCarthyism."

16) Then-Communist Party USA leader Gus Hall, a controlled Kremlin asset, said at his party's 1979 convention how modern liberals now welcomed his cadre into their ranks.

Liberals' hostility to anti-communism opened the way for Soviet assets to penetrate the liberal mainstream.

17) "Communists, [Gus Hall] observed, 'do not have to fight to participate in these movements. In fact, we not only do not have to fight to participate, in most cases we are asked to join and help out.'"

18) Senator Ted Kennedy, CPUSA's Gus Hall said, "is a lightning rod for the rising current of political independence."

"Hall told his comrades not to worry if few of their new allies joined the party in a formal sense: 'There is a blossoming resurgent Left with new qualities.'"

19) About the liberal/progressive movement of the late 1980s, Gus Hall said, “There is a blossoming resurgent Left with new qualities. It is much broader, with greater links to the mainstream.”
In 2020, Russian TV would host Hall’s running mate, Angela Davis, to back @JoeBiden.

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