By Steve Sailer
07/29/2020
From the NYT opinion page:
Help Me Find Trumpâs âAnarchistsâ in Portland
The president has his politically driven narrative. And then thereâs reality.
By Nicholas Kristof
Opinion ColumnistJuly 29, 2020, 4:23 p.m. ET
PORTLAND, Ore. â Iâve been on the front lines of the protests here, searching for the âradical-left anarchistsâ who President Trump says are on Portland streets each evening.
I thought Iâd found one: a man who for weeks leapt into the fray and has been shot four times with impact munitions yet keeps coming back. I figured he must be a crazed anarchist.
But no, he turned out to be Dr. Bryan Wolf, a radiologist who wears his white doctorâs jacket and carries a sign with a red cross and the words âhumanitarian aid.â He pleads with federal forces not to shoot or gas protesters.
âPut your gun barrels down!â he cries out. âWhy are you loading your grenade launchers? Weâre just standing â â â
And then they shoot.
Dr. Wolf, an assistant professor at Oregon Health Sciences University, helps at a medic stand operated by volunteers from the medical school. Could they be radical-left anarchists? No, theyâve imposed order on the anarchy of the street by establishing qualifications for field medics and a hierarchy among them, so that any badly injured protester will immediately get the right kind of care.
See, they are organized so they canât anarchists!
Also, they are anarchists so they can be an organization, and thus they are not liable under the Racketeer Influenced Corrupt Organization law!
Accomplishing all this while tear gas is swirling and impact munitions are whizzing by, without even asking for insurance cards â that seems the opposite of what fanatical anarchists might do.
Maybe the rioting anarchists were in front of the crowd, where there are discussions about Black Lives Matter? I found musicians and activists and technicians, who were projecting a huge sign on the wall of a nearby building â âFed Goons Out of PDXâ â that seemed a bit geeky for anarchists.
Oh, wait, there was a man using angry language about the federal âoccupationâ and calling it âabhorrent.â Lots of protesters donât seem to like him, so could he be a crazed anarchist rioter?
Oops, no, thatâs just Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler, sputtering after being tear-gassed by the feds.
Listen up, people, we at The New York Times spent the last six years telling you in excruciating detail about the menace posed by the radical right. If the radical left were important, wouldnât we have, you know, gotten around to mentioning them? So, logically, they donât exist.