Thread by @JewhadiTM

The Deep Roots of Radicalism

@JohnBrennan and company long sought to break America’s patriotic citadels.
(via @george_neumayr)
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The anti-Americanism of Brennan, of course, no longer receives that label.

Since the counterculture has become the culture, liberal pols can redefine anti-Americanism as strides toward a new and better America.

Samuel Johnson said that the last refuge of a political scoundrel is patriotism. Not anymore.

Today’s political darlings get ahead by calling America “systemically racist” and questioning the country’s founding documents.

They speak not of the country’s strength but of its weakness.

Perhaps Benedict Arnold will have to be rehabilitated. After all, as the New York Times teaches through its “1619 Project,” the colonists were the bad guys in the Revolutionary War.

For John Brennan, America wasn’t even the good guy in the Cold War. Brennan was rooting for the Reds. If an opponent of America during the Cold War can become CIA director, anything is possible.

The breaking of America’s most patriotic citadels is on open display in the Biden administration. Biden recognizes that the fundamentally transformed America of his dreams is impossible unless those agencies are reduced to “wokeness.”

Yesterday’s treachery is today’s patriotism

The CIA’s recent ads touting the wokeness of its employees — one ad features an “intersectional” woman, another a CIA librarian who thrilled at the sight of a “rainbow on Brennan’s lanyard” — indicate a changed ethos that not even the infamous Church Committee could have foreseen

That 1975 Senate inquiry sought to defang the CIA, but not this much.

Brennan has succeeded in creating a CIA in his own image.

While the Biden administration hands out jobs to supporters of Black Lives Matter, its military is on the search for “bigots.”

Brennan has gushed that the Biden administration is treating “even libertarians” as potential domestic insurgents.

The same liberals who lionized Ellsberg for his unpatriotic dissent now plan to monitor the social media accounts of conservative Christian soldiers who revere the Founding Fathers.

And woe to those soldiers who dare criticize the critical race theory and political correctness pervading Joe Biden’s military.

On the Left’s long march through America’s institutions, it extolled robust and unruly free speech. Now the John Brennans champion its suppression.

Imagine how liberals would have reacted in the past if the military under a Republican president had set up a “Countering Extremism Working Group.” They would have been the first to call that an attack on First Amendment protections.

No one is more authoritarian than a triumphant liberal. Liberalism decries “authoritarian” institutions, such as the Catholic Church or the military, until it runs them.

Converting conservative institutions into instruments of liberal power has long been the goal of the Left, and liberals wield that power, once secured, with dogmatic tenacity.

Gus Hall somewhere must be smiling. That communist agitator assumed change would come in America from outside government.

John Brennan and other radicals have proven otherwise. They show that the most sweeping revolutions come not against government power but with it.