{"id":36645,"date":"2018-08-14T08:39:24","date_gmt":"2018-08-14T13:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=36645"},"modified":"2018-08-14T08:39:24","modified_gmt":"2018-08-14T13:39:24","slug":"close-up-and-long-shot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=36645","title":{"rendered":"Close Up and Long Shot"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Be careful about what you see in the foreground of the news vis-\u00e0-vis what\u2019s in the background. Sunday, the cable networks were on fire over the 30-or-so white nationalists marching across Washington DC \u2014 with much larger hordes of masked, black-clad Antifa street-fighters following them around, and an army of DC cops in fluorescent green riot vests following the Antifas and the white nationalist knuckleheads.<\/p>\n

The event was a billed as an attempt to commemorate the clash that happened between the same contestants in Charlottesville, Virginia, a year ago in the uproar over Confederate statues. That fiasco ended in the death of a bystander named Heather Heyer. Not a whole lot has changed since then, except perhaps the Left has become more strident in its calls to penalize white people for their crimes of \u201cprivilege,\u201d no doubt further inflaming the Unite-the-Right crew. (And the anti-statue campaign has dropped down the memory hole.)<\/p>\n

There was plenty of \u201chate\u201d to go around on both sides Sunday. But those who were waiting for a climactic bloodbath in Lafayette Park must have been disappointed after a long day of tension when a big blob of rain hunkered over the District at suppertime and the theatrics concluded. Both the Antifas and the Unite-the-Right marchers had to go home and get out of their wet clothes. At least they could agree on that.<\/p>\n

The cable TV anchors had issued the usual calls for \u201cnational unity,\u201d exhorting President Trump to emerge from his Bedminster, New Jersey, golfing bunker and \u201cbring the country together,\u201d a sadly fatuous proposition. There is nothing to come together within. There\u2019s nothing left of an American common culture besides a few Disney movies and that\u2019s not nearly enough. That\u2019s what happens when you opt for multiculturalism as your number one political principle.<\/p>\n

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Close Up and Long Shot Be careful about what you see in the foreground of the news vis-\u00e0-vis what\u2019s in the background. Sunday, the cable networks were on fire over the 30-or-so white nationalists marching across Washington DC \u2014 with much larger hordes of masked, black-clad Antifa street-fighters following them around, and an army of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[16709,14964,7844,17283,449,21212,827,865],"class_list":["post-36645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-antifa","tag-clusterfuck-nation","tag-donald-trump","tag-hate","tag-james-howard-kunstler","tag-national-unity","tag-united-states","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36645"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36646,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36645\/revisions\/36646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}