The article discusses how the violent left-wing radicals of the 1960s and 1970s, such as the Weather Underground, launched a campaign of bombings and assassinations against American institutions. Despite their radical violence, these groups eventually infiltrated and took control of mainstream liberal institutions, shaping the current political landscape. The current Trump administration, with its Republican allies, is now working to counter these radical influences and reclaim the nation’s institutions.
The legacy of these radical groups can be seen in the present day, with groups like the Weather Underground having progeny on the streets of cities like Portland and Chicago, throwing Molotov cocktails at cops and federal agents. In more ways than one, we live in the world the 1960s made.
America is at a tipping point, having endured years of left-wing riots, attacks, bombings, and a series of assassination attempts that culminated in the murder of Charlie Kirk. However, it’s not 1970 anymore. In fact, it’s not even 2020.
In the less than one year that President Donald Trump has been in office, his administration—working with its Republican allies in Congress—has dismantled DEI bureaucracies, gone on offense against leftist ideologues in public schools and higher education, and shut off the spigot of federal taxpayer dollars that have funded the left-wing NGO-industrial complex for decades. As we speak, they are preparing to take unprecedented (but long-overdue) action against the left-wing terrorists and militants on our streets.
The radicals of the 1960s failed to overthrow America by force, so they set out to capture it from within. If the left’s ‘long march through the institutions’ was the defining political project of the last 50 years, the right’s task in the coming years must be to take those institutions back for America. Finally, that task has begun.