More news on that woman who was intimidated at a restaurant.

1) In a scene that played out several times Monday, a Black Lives Matter protest that began in Columbia Heights confronted White diners outside D.C. restaurants,  chanting “White silence is violence!” and demanding White diners show their solidarity. #DCProtests pic.twitter.com/fJbPM76vb0

— Fredrick Kunkle (@KunkleFredrick) August 25, 2020

3) Modiano, who had been yelling at Victor and moments later identified himself as a citizen journalist who writes for @Deadspin, told Victor he couldn’t understand why she was the only diner in the area who wouldn’t comply. “What was in you, you couldn’t do this?”

— Fredrick Kunkle WaPo (@KunkleFredrick) August 25, 2020

4) “I felt I was under attack,” Victor, an urban planner, said, adding that she felt there was something wrong about being coerced to show support.

— Fredrick Kunkle WaPo (@KunkleFredrick) August 25, 2020

5) “In the moment, it didn’t feel right,” Victor said, adding that she also could understand their anger. “I wasn’t actually frightened. I didn’t think they’d do anything to me,” she said. “I’m very much with them. I’ve been marching with them for weeks and weeks and weeks.”

— Fredrick Kunkle WaPo (@KunkleFredrick) August 25, 2020

We have seen this many times before.  This is the hallmark of the political zealot.

This was the modus operandi of the Jacobins during the Reign of Terror, the Sturmabteilung in Nazi Germany, the Blackshirts in Italy, the Red Army in Russia, the Red Guards in Maoist China, Che’s thugs in Cuba.

You are either with the revolution or against the revolution, there is no neutral or sort-of-participation.  Anything less than being a full-throated member of the revolution is disloyalty.

Antifa claims to be the good guys because they are fighting white supremacism, fascism, and racism.

At face value, those are good principles.

But as ideological Marxists/radical Leftists, they decided that white supremacists, fascists, and racists were anyone who wasn’t in their ranks.

Someone who agrees that racism is bad but refuses to be intimidated into showing solidarity with their movement is branded a traitor and threatened.

Most people are not racists or white supremacists or support fascism.  Most people are good, decent people who just want to live in a nice community and work hard to build a better life for their families.  They want to engage in politics not much more than voting every two years.

Their lack of zealotry is what makes them targets for Antifa.  Their only crime is not filling the ranks of the zealots.

They were not with them so they were against them.

We know how the Reign of Terror ended.  We know how the Great Leap Forward ended.  We know how the October Revolution and the Cuban Revolution ended.

The zealots murdered millions for disloyalty simply because they wanted to live their lives and not spend every waking moment fighting for the movement.

This cannot be allowed to happen in America.