Sorry, but in MAGA America we don’t negotiate with subversives and terrorists.
Remember when The Wall Street Journal generally held respectably conservative opinions? Good times. But a recent opinion piece – “The Alienated ‘Knowledge Class’ Could Turn Violent” – betrays a curiously Left-wing argument that smells suspiciously of blackmail.
The article’s fear-mongering teaser line reads, “Societies that exile their intellectuals risk turning them into revolutionaries. It happened in the 1970s.” Jukka Savolainen, a professor of sociology at Wayne State University, begins his piece by noting that violent Left-wing radicals of the ‘70s such as the Weather Underground in the U.S., West Germany’s Red Army Faction, and Italy’s Red Brigades were composed largely not of “the oppressed proletariat of Marxist theory, but the disillusioned children of privilege and university lecture halls.” He writes that the radicalization of such academic domestic terrorists (my label, not his) as Barack Obama mentor Bill Ayers and his literal partner-in-crime Bernardine Dohrn “stemmed not from poverty but from moral outrage and estrangement from institutional power.”
