As Daniel Greenfield noted in Domestic Enemies: The Founding Fathers’ Fight Against the Left, the epic political struggle between Right and Left is rooted deep in America’s origins.
The mental illness of liberalism (socialism) hindered advancement and improvement as far back as the Jamestown settlement during the first decade of the 17th century.
NOTE: Socialism in Jamestown and ever since has proven to be disastrous.
This from frontpagemag.com.
Domestic enemies were embedded in America from the very start.
Greenfield wrote in his preface:
The Left has been plotting against America for more than two centuries.
Domestic Enemies shows how we arrived here and reveals how the great men and women of our nation’s history took on the same challenges we face now, and how America prevailed against the left.
Relying heavily on first-person accounts of early American letters, diaries, autobiographies, and newspaper reports, Greenfield elucidates:
[S]ome of the most explosive periods in our nation’s history, when, much like today, the very notion of truth had been cast aside in the heat of causes whose stakes to the participants appeared to be the future of the nation and even of the human race.
Greenfield explained in his introduction the origins of the democrat crime syndicate:
[A]re rooted in the French Revolution of 1789. The Jacobin radicals dreamed of bringing that violent upheaval to America’s shores, where revolution had fallen short of the French vision of the ideal society.
The Founding Fathers, after all:
[H]ad unleashed a revolution and then bound it within the confines of the principles of the Declaration of Independence and the [C]onstitution.
The American Left, just like the French Left, wanted not a republic restrained by a recognition of the limitations of our flawed human nature, but a utopian new world order.
To lay the groundwork for that, clubs or organizations called Democratic Societies, modeled on radical Jacobin clubs, were set up with the assistance and funding of foreign emissaries of the French Revolution.
These societies:
[F]ormed the backbone of what would become the country’s first true political party as part of a radical plan to bring the French Revolution to America.
Greenfield wrote:
They functioned as incubators, organizing, radicalizing, and imbuing their members with an ambitious vision before paving the way for a new generation of mainstream organizations that would go on to implement their radical visions.
As a strategy:
[The Left] learned to scale back from apocalyptic utopianism to radical change through incremental progress—a revolution in stages from within the system.
This sets the stage for Greenfield’s examinations of various conflicts in American history in subsequent chapters, the titles of which cleverly emphasize the correlation to today’s political battles:
– 1793-1800: How America’s First Community Organizer [Aaron Burr] Used a Pandemic to Build the Democratic Urban Political Machine and Steal an Election,
– 1794-1800: How Fake News and the First Globalist Plot Against America Created the Democratic Party, and
– 1863-1864: How the Democrats Set Off America’s Worst Race Riots to Steal an Election.
Greenfield has outlined numerous other timeline comparisons. Examples to note:
– [H]ow the yellow fever epidemic of 1798 created a subversive opportunity for the nation’s first true community organizer—darkly ambitious Vice President Aaron Burr,
– [T]he forgotten story of the struggle for the Constitution against socialism in the inflationary paper money that Rhode Island’s secessionist radicals were printing for social justice,
– [H]ow the globalist Left sought to destroy their hated enemy George Washington through smears and lies for his refusal to bow to French radicalism,
– [H]ow failed experiments in radical utopian communes nevertheless inspired transcendentalists, socialists, anarchists, and other radicals and paved the way for the ‘slow long march of the counterculture through the culture,’
– [H]ow a bad novelist created a secret society—the Knights of the Golden Circle—which plotted political terror and an invasion of Mexico, spawned assassin John Wilkes Booth, and ultimately gave way to a new organization for territorial expansionism, the Ku Klux Klan, and
– [H]ow one of the most pivotal battles of the Civil War, America’s first true race riot, and New York’s first major terror plot all took place on the island of Manhattan.
In his conclusion What We Can Learn From America’s Long War Against the Left, Greenfield noted the Left is constantly waging war on the past. Ex: The desperate historical revisionism of the Left’s propagandistic 1619 Project.
Greenfield wrote:
The Utopian Left is convinced that history can be broken away from the past and that its ideology will carry us away to ‘the right side of history.’
And:
History offers the undeniable truth that the Left will lose.
But this is no excuse for our complacency.
Unlike the Left, conservatives are often afflicted with a debilitating streak of pessimism, even fatalism. We cannot allow this to take us out of the fight.
Daniel Greenfield concluded:
We fought these battles before. We will fight them again. And we can win.
Final thoughts: Conservatives must not forget the past. Complacency may prove to be deadly. If we use the lessons learned, we will win the future.
