Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Jacobin Left is just now beginning to get edgy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
A few of its appeasers and abettors are becoming embarrassed by some of the outright racists and nihilists of BLM and the Maoists of Antifa \u2014 and their wannabe hangers-on who troll the Internet hoping to scalp some minor celebrity.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The woke rich too are worried over talk about substantial wealth, capital-gains, and income taxes, even though they have the resources to navigate around the legislation from their wink-and-nod brethren. Soon, even Hunter Biden and the Clintons could be checking in with their legal teams to see how much it will cost them to get around the Squad\u2019s new tax plan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The lines are thinning a bit for the guillotine. And the guillotiners are starting to panic as they glimpse faces of a restless mob always starved for something to top last night\u2019s torching. Finally, even looters and arsonists get tired of doing the same old, same old each night. They get bored with the puerile bullhorn chants, the on-spec spray-paint defacement, and the petite fascists among them who hog the megaphones. For the lazy and bored, statue toppling \u2014 all of those ropes, those icky pry bars, those heavy sledgehammers, and so much pulling \u2014 becomes hard work, especially as the police, camera crews, and fisticuffs thin out on the ground. And the easy bronze and stone prey are now mostly rubble. Now it\u2019s either the big, tough stuff like Mount Rushmore or the crazy targets like Lincoln and Frederick Douglass. <\/p>\n\n\n\n