Can you feel it? Can
you feel the held breath by the media, the pundits, and those of us in the
cheap seats, as the Republican National Convention approaches? Dallas
was just a warm-up, every angry mob and rent-a-mob is warming up their throwing
arms and sharpening the ends of their placard sticks, preparing to cause a
major scene on the streets of Cleveland.
You know, to make Donald Trump look bad.
Meet Calvin D. Williams, the City of Cleveland's Chief of Police. You're probably going to be seeing him on the news quite a bit in the coming week or so.
The good news for Mr. Williams is that the eyes of the world
will be on his city. Politicians love
that, and let’s face it, the Chief of Police does a lot more politicking than
policing. The bad news is that the leftists
in the media (as though there was anyone else in the media) have spent the last
decade whipping up the mobs and pointing them at the kulaks wearing badges and
hats with elephants on them. The really
bad news for Calvin is that the usual suspects are better funded and have more
time to prepare than usual.
The other good news for Calvin is that Ohio is an open carry
state. Remember that an armed society is
a polite society, and that leftists are at heart cowards. When confronted with real risk, when not backed
by a braying mob, they tend to pull an Irish fade. This convention might just be quieter than
anyone expects thanks to Samuel Colt’s efforts at making man equal.
One thing that I haven’t heard anyone talk about yet is that
Trump’s current statistical dead heat with Clinton is likely to vanish when the
standard post-convention bump kicks in.
That means in less than a month, Donald Trump will have turned an
8-point deficit into a 3-point lead. It
gets better for those of us in the Red Hats, though.
If the scuttlebutt about agitators looking to make a
statement and turn Cleveland into San Jose, Round Two – Rumble in the Concrete
Jungle, prove correct, you can just go ahead and tack on another three points
to that lead. If blood darkens the
streets of Cleveland, caused by outside mobs braying and spoiling for a fight,
American voters will flock to Trump.
They don’t like seeing their nice, orderly democracy overturned by violent
mobs.
It doesn’t matter if the mob makes the doughy types that
attend the political convention bleed, or get bloodied themselves by running
headlong into a wall of baton wielding officers, they are going to look like
savage criminals trying to stop the normal progression of the democratic
process. The squishy center of the
American voter might be apathetic and prone to voting for the left in a vain
attempt to stop the left from calling them names, but when push comes to shove
comes to thrown bottles, they harden their hearts and look for somebody who can
stop the madness.
In an odd way, their cowardice can be pushed too far. The typical American voter wants what all
people everywhere want – safe streets, consistency, and safety. This desire for peace that causes them to
fall prey to Democrat name calling (“racist”, “sexist”, “homophobe”, etc.) can
be pushed too far. When the left gets
anxious and ups their bullying from name calling to actual violence, the American
voter starts looking for protection from the left and runs into the arms of the
right. For just one example of that
process, look to the repeated successes of Mayor Guiliani. When things got dangerous, even the hard-nosed
but oddly sensitive New York, New Yorkers preferred him. When he made that city safe to walk at night,
they abandoned both Guiliani and his policies.
So, speaking as a Trumpkin or Trumptard or Trumpinista or
whatever cute name you think might hurt my feel-feels*, I say bring on the
violence. We’re more than happy to
accept the support of people who value peace and democracy over those who think
violent conflict is the proper way to select a leader. There are more than enough of them to tip the
election to The Donald.*Spoiler alert: They don’t.