On Jan. 21, 2017, hundreds of thousands of feminists wearing pink "p****hats" protested the prior day's presidential inauguration of Donald Trump by rampaging throughout Washington, D.C.
The "Women's March on Washington," an extension of the riots and protests that shook the capital on Inauguration Day itself, was not exactly a peaceful affair. Hundreds of anarchists in total were arrested over the multiday period, typically on rioting or vandalism charges.
The "p****hat"-clad feminist rioters thus constituted the first Trump-era manifestation of destructive Democratic shock troops. Call it Democratic Street Thuggery 1.0.
That particularly virulent strain of radical feminism reached a crescendo during the #MeToo societal struggle session of 2017-2018, culminating in the infamous Christine Blasey Ford-led attempt to derail Brett Kavanaugh's U.S. Supreme Court nomination in Sept. 2018.
Arguably the single leading misandrist crusader during that sordid affair, peddling the ludicrous "believe all women" smear from her senatorial dais and casually throwing out five millennia of "innocent until proven guilty" civilizational norms in the process, was none other than California Sen. Kamala Harris.
Alas, Joe Biden was so awestruck by Harris' vile interrogation of Kavanaugh and her own hilariously unimpressive 2020 presidential campaign that he tapped her to be his running mate. Kamala's grand contribution to the Biden campaign was to dutifully "empathize" with left-wing America during our next great struggle session, the antifa-Black Lives Matter "racial reckoning" that followed the May 2020 death of George Floyd .
Such "empathy" included Kamala's unctuous rhetorical support for the rioters, as well as her posting to social media a link to support bail for those rare BLM rioters who were actually arrested. The antifa-BLM rioters, who caused up to $2 billion in property damage during that infamous Summer of Love, constituted Democratic Street Thuggery 2.0.
No politician in recent memory has parlayed such little talent into such stratospheric success as Harris. With her beyond piercing laugh, she "failed upward," yet again into the vice presidency — and now, following last month's bloodless coup of Biden, into the Democratic presidential nomination itself.
And this Tuesday, in announcing her running mate, Kamala ostentatiously passed on her clearly superior option, popular Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, for the prairie socialist Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota. Walz, as the home-state governor of St. George Floyd our Martyr, was the original arsonist of the Summer of Love nationwide fire.
There was no greater fanner of the flames of Democratic Street Thuggery 2.0 than Walz.
Choosing Walz over Shapiro is curious for many reasons, but adding to the intrigue is the peculiar context in which it all went down. Kamala made her announcement in Philadelphia, Shapiro's hometown.
It came a few days after the mayor of Philadelphia — or, more accurately, the mayor's hapless social media intern — inadvertently posted a polished video in support of a Harris-Shapiro ticket. The implication seemed clear enough: The pick was going to be Shapiro.
But then, following a weekend of keffiyeh-clad radicals running wild in Philadelphia, waving Hamas and Hezbollah flags and decrying "Genocide Josh," the Keystone State governor was suddenly tossed aside. Kamala caved to the "death to America!"- and "death to Israel!"-chanting jihadists who constitute Democratic Street Thuggery 3.0.
Harris, intellectually challenged and an empty vessel for Democrats to project their basest desires, is the unique politician to find herself at the tripartite Venn diagram of all three Democratic Street Thuggery movements.
The overlap of "believe all women"-style destructive feminism, antifa-BLM "racial reckoning" anarchy and Hamas/Hezbollah flag-flying civilizational jihad is embodied in one person: Kamala Harris. She is the perfect totem of the modern Democratic Party, which exalts intersectional victimhood and will whip its shock troops into a violent frenzy to get what it wants.
The modern Democratic Party is less political vehicle and more Mafia — right down to the omerta code of silence surrounding Biden's physical and mental decline.
Many European countries have indulged the fiction that jihadist outfits Hamas and Hezbollah — the actual Middle Eastern terrorist organizations, not their useful idiot American supporters — can somehow be divided between "political" and "militant" wings. This is, of course, a lie — it is a distinction without a difference.
Similarly, the notion that the Democratic Party can be distinguished between its elite "political wing" and shock troop "militant wing" is also a lie. The elites and the shock troops are one and the same. And Harris and Walz are at the epicenter of it all.
On Oct. 30, 2020, this column argued that the then-impending election "pit(s) against each other a fundamentally Americanist vision of governance and a fundamentally insurrectionist vision of anarchic mayhem." It was true then. And it's even truer of our election cycle today.
Josh Hammer is the Senior Editor-at-Large of Newsweek, and is host of "The Josh Hammer Show" podcast. He also authors the weekly newsletter, "The Josh Hammer Report." Josh is also a syndicated columnist through Creators Syndicate, a research fellow at the Edmund Burke Foundation, and a popular campus speaker. Read Josh Hammer's Reports — Here.