The second American Revolution is upon us

The Second American Revolution has begun. Unfortunately, there is no guarantee that it will end like the first – with our people living in the freest, most secure and most prosperous nation ever.

Essayist J.R. Nyquist recently called to mind, for example, the French revolution in 1792, which was inspired by ours, but quickly went in a very different direction. Faced with violent mobs, the government ordered its security forces to submit. When they “took a knee,” many of them – and countless others – were murdered by the revolutionaries.

Americans committed to the hard-won freedoms we inherited now confront large numbers of peaceful protestors unwittingly enabling revolutionary groups set on overthrowing our Republic. It starts with defunding the police and submitting to other demands out of Chairman Mao’s playbook, a reality too few are willing or able to acknowledge.

We must not go there.

This is Frank Gaffney.