Nancy & the Disrupters... No, it's not a punk rock band from 1979, thought it may as well be.
It's a quick moniker for House Democrat Leader Nancy Pelosi (de facto spokeswoman for the progressive left), and the lawless, thuggish anarchists and entitlement-minded illegal aliens (aka a "Frankenstein") her beliefs and rhetoric have helped create. Recall that in spring 2014, Pelosi spoke to University of California Berkeley students, urging them to be "disrupters," and saying, "Being called a 'disrupter' is a high compliment."
We've seen leftist rage building in intensity over the last few years. First there was Occupy Wall Street, along with examples of juvenile, petulant behavior on universities (see University of Missouri) -- utterly succumbed to by cowardly, spineless administrators. Then, during the 2016 presidential election, agitators and provocateurs, organized and engineered by the Barack Obama White House, showed up at Trump rallies to pick fights and provoke Trump supporters. They knew full well that the corrupt media would slant its reporting to make the Trump supporters look like thugs, while ignoring or downplaying left-wing assaults against Trumpsters.
In 2016 and again this year, so-called "Antifa" -- a loose-knit group of far-left anarchists, has been violently protesting conservative speakers on university campuses, smashing windows, overturning vehicles, starting fires and assaulting political opponents. Antifa also showed up in Charlottesville, Virginia a few weeks ago to confront white nationalists, Nazis and others who oppose removing confederate monuments.
Just the other day, Pelosi got an upfront-and-personal dose of what her ilk has wrought, when militant illegal immigrants shouted her down at a news conference on DACA, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals policy arbitrarily implemented by Barack Obama's executive FIAT, and still in a state of limbo under Donald Trump.
Pelosi tried to explain what she and the Democrats have been doing in support of comprehensive immigration reform, but the raucous and rude crowd called her a liar and denounced Democrats for being willfully supportive of deportation of illegal immigrants ("undocumented workers," in PC-speak).
It was rich, seeing Pelosi look so feeble and befuddled. Welcome to the realities of progressive politics, Nancy. It's a little rougher out in the real world, when you feel the results of your own policies, than it is inside a plush Capitol office or a San Francisco mansion.
I saw Nancy and the Disruptors open for The Clash at Joe Louis Arena in '81.
Posted by: K.N. McBride | September 21, 2017 at 04:50 PM