ROGER SIMON: The Weimar Republic Comes to Nordstrom.
And this was only a day after that between 50 and 80 looters, according to first-hand reports, invaded a Nordstrom in Walnut Creek, California, pepper spraying and punching people who got in their way before they made off with their booty in waiting cars.
Even if those numbers are exaggerated, and we have no reason so far to disbelieve them, if only 30 or 40 of those thugs ransacked the department store, imagine the horror for shoppers and employees.
Only a day before, Nov. 20, if we are to believe Twitter reports that include videos—the mainstream media no longer bothers with this—swank stores like Louis Vuitton were being looted in downtown San Francisco.
Public safety is literally defunct in the Bay Area and Los Angeles as well. Evident from their actions, the district attorneys of SF and LA have multiple times more sympathy for criminals than their victims, rich or poor.
I don’t have to remind readers how this attitude has already metastasized across the country, resulting in city after city recording skyrocketing murder rates.
In less than a year, the incompetent, ideologically-driven (or is it obsessed) Joe Biden administration has done something few would have thought possible.
They have made the United States of America almost unlivable.
Nevertheless, we do our best to soldier on as if we were already accustomed to living in an American version of Germany’s Weimar Republic, inflation, unmitigated license, and all.
Too many of us accept it, although so many of us know what Weimar led to, the rise of the National Socialist Party. We pretend that it cannot happen here, yet there are auguries everywhere.
Yes, there are good signs as well like the Rittenhouse verdict and poll numbers that show a possible Democratic debacle in 2022. But that only causes the Dems to double-down on their statist legislation, seeking yet more control for a supposedly-benign government and therefore over all of us with mandates and so forth, as that same National Socialist Party did in the thirties.
You could call that an invidious comparison but an administration that accuses parents protesting school boards of being “domestic terrorists” is pretty much capable of anything.
To be fair, the Weimar Republic came to America quite a long time ago. But as the events of the last two years demonstrated, it’s getting awfully late in the day here.
Related: Mob Targets Bay Area Stores in Third Consecutive Day of Smash-and-Grab Looting.