IMO, it'd be best for the Trump campaign to instead continue running on a strident law & order, tough-on-crime line - while also hammering home the point that Harris doesn't represent law & order herself, but self-centered anarcho-tyranny.
I really wish Trump (and conservatives in general) would hammer the concept of anarcho-tyranny more. And the WuFlu/race riots dichotomy has provided such good examples of it: "why are police arresting people for sitting on the beach but not for setting buildings on fire? Why are we letting violent criminals out of jail while jailing small business owners for trying to make a living? Shouldn't it be the other way around?"
Even a Seattle leftist will sometimes, when they think they're among friends, wonder aloud why they got a ticket for parking too close to a fire hydrant while nothing ever seems to happen to the run-down RV illegally parked down the street.
This isn't anarcho-tyranny though. True anarchy is purely chaotic. Leftist anarchy is targeted at specific people and institutions while being heavily funded and logistically supported. There's no anarchism here. This is effectively an insurgency conducted by the proxies of their paymasters.
It is anarcho-tyranny in the way that Sam Francis used/defined the term. It was not intended to describe a true state of anarchy but rather a directed and controlled "anarchy" with the explicit goal of terrorizing and controlling the law-abiding.
The elementary concept of anarcho-tyranny is simple enough. History knows of many societies that have succumbed to anarchy when the governing authorities proved incapable of controlling criminals, warlords, rebels, and marauding invaders. Today, that is not the problem in the United States. The government, as any taxpayer (especially delinquent ones) can tell you, shows no sign of collapsing or proving unable to perform its functions. In the United States today, the government works efficiently. Taxes are collected (you bet), the population is counted (sort of), the mail is delivered (sometimes), and countries that never bothered us are invaded and conquered.
Yet, at the same time, the country habitually wallows in a condition that often resembles Thomas Hobbes’ state of nature--nasty, brutish, and short. Crime rates have indeed declined in the last decade or so, but violent crime remains so common in larger cities and their suburbs that both residents and visitors live in a continuous state of fear, if not terror...
What we have in this country today, then, is both anarchy (the failure of the state to enforce the laws) and, at the same time, tyranny--the enforcement of laws by the state for oppressive purposes; the criminalization of the law-abiding and innocent through exorbitant taxation, bureaucratic regulation, the invasion of privacy, and the engineering of social institutions, such as the family and local schools; the imposition of thought control through “sensitivity training” and multiculturalist curricula, “hate crime” laws, gun-control laws that punish or disarm otherwise law-abiding citizens but have no impact on violent criminals who get guns illegally, and a vast labyrinth of other measures. In a word, anarcho-tyranny.
I mean, I guess that definition makes sense, but I wouldn't use it. The kind of anarchy he describes is an aspect of tyranny and authoritarianism being unable to have totalitarian control, so they leave certain portions to be utterly out of control, but also unable to form any normal parallel society.
Authoritarians prefer subjective laws that can be enforced on everyone and anyone at any given notice. Segments of the society outside of the authoritarian system are not purely anarchistic, but are a place of perpetual chaos subjective to eternal authoritarian oppression.
This is just what the natural state of non-totalitarian tyranny looks like.
It is the definition of insurgency. Portland, CHAZ, Chicago, etc are stage 3, taking territory. Fallujah, Sadr City, ISIS, etc were stage 3. Beirut is too right now.
I don't know which stages you're referring to, but as a matter of personal experience, Fallujah, Basra, ISIS's activity, Beirut both now and during the Lebonese Civil War are wholly different from what's going on in Seattle, Washington, and Chicago.
This isn't even really an insurgency, it's a counter-revolution.
Donald Trump et all, is effectively a Velvet Revolution ... (Orange Revolution ha ha ha)... against the Fabian Socialist establishment of the West. This means that while the attacks on the Federal Courthouse look like an insurgency... it isn't. It's a counter-revolutionary movement against a portion of the government that is genuinely against the modern establishment. NORMALLY the overthrow of the national government by revolutionary forces is the last part of a revolution, not the first. Our situation is slightly different from the norm.
Stage 1 is recruitment. Stage 2 is harassment attacks and organization. Stage 3 is holding territory. I don't remember if it was stages or levels or whatever, but it was a common term in COIN white papers.
I agree about it being backwards revolution day, but 99th generational regime change is uncharted territory.
I really wish Trump (and conservatives in general) would hammer the concept of anarcho-tyranny more. And the WuFlu/race riots dichotomy has provided such good examples of it: "why are police arresting people for sitting on the beach but not for setting buildings on fire? Why are we letting violent criminals out of jail while jailing small business owners for trying to make a living? Shouldn't it be the other way around?"
Even a Seattle leftist will sometimes, when they think they're among friends, wonder aloud why they got a ticket for parking too close to a fire hydrant while nothing ever seems to happen to the run-down RV illegally parked down the street.
This isn't anarcho-tyranny though. True anarchy is purely chaotic. Leftist anarchy is targeted at specific people and institutions while being heavily funded and logistically supported. There's no anarchism here. This is effectively an insurgency conducted by the proxies of their paymasters.
It is anarcho-tyranny in the way that Sam Francis used/defined the term. It was not intended to describe a true state of anarchy but rather a directed and controlled "anarchy" with the explicit goal of terrorizing and controlling the law-abiding.
I mean, I guess that definition makes sense, but I wouldn't use it. The kind of anarchy he describes is an aspect of tyranny and authoritarianism being unable to have totalitarian control, so they leave certain portions to be utterly out of control, but also unable to form any normal parallel society.
Authoritarians prefer subjective laws that can be enforced on everyone and anyone at any given notice. Segments of the society outside of the authoritarian system are not purely anarchistic, but are a place of perpetual chaos subjective to eternal authoritarian oppression.
This is just what the natural state of non-totalitarian tyranny looks like.
It is the definition of insurgency. Portland, CHAZ, Chicago, etc are stage 3, taking territory. Fallujah, Sadr City, ISIS, etc were stage 3. Beirut is too right now.
I don't know which stages you're referring to, but as a matter of personal experience, Fallujah, Basra, ISIS's activity, Beirut both now and during the Lebonese Civil War are wholly different from what's going on in Seattle, Washington, and Chicago.
This isn't even really an insurgency, it's a counter-revolution.
Donald Trump et all, is effectively a Velvet Revolution ... (Orange Revolution ha ha ha)... against the Fabian Socialist establishment of the West. This means that while the attacks on the Federal Courthouse look like an insurgency... it isn't. It's a counter-revolutionary movement against a portion of the government that is genuinely against the modern establishment. NORMALLY the overthrow of the national government by revolutionary forces is the last part of a revolution, not the first. Our situation is slightly different from the norm.
Stage 1 is recruitment. Stage 2 is harassment attacks and organization. Stage 3 is holding territory. I don't remember if it was stages or levels or whatever, but it was a common term in COIN white papers.
I agree about it being backwards revolution day, but 99th generational regime change is uncharted territory.