Clockwork comrades                                                              

"There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pete, Georgie, and Dim, and we sat in the Korova Milkbar trying to make up our rassoodocks what to do with the evening. The Korova milkbar sold milk-plus, milk plus vellocet or synthemesc or drencrom, which is what we were drinking. This would sharpen you up and make you ready for a bit of the old ultra-violence." (Excerpted from the Anthony Burgess novel A Clockwork Orange.)

The ultra-violence envisioned by Burgess in 1962 has leapt from yellowed pages to devastate city after American city. Throngs of left-wing subversives attack law enforcement agents and perpetrate widespread property wreckage. (They populated recent "No Kings" tantrums, having substituted Ben & Jerry's ice cream for the droogs' milk plus.)

A precedent for today's nationwide political brutality was set by 2020 George Floyd anarchy. Murders, vicious physical attacks, numerous acts of arson, and tens of millions of dollars in property destruction were perpetrated by rampagers.

Gwen Walz, wife of Minnesota Gov. "Tampon" Tim, expressed the delight felt by many Democrats who cheer lawlessness. “I could smell the burning tires, and that was a very real thing,” was a quote attributed to her by the New York Post. “I kept the windows open as long as I could because I felt like that was such a touchstone of what was happening."

Her terrible words illustrated the left's romantic fantasy of revolutionists rising to overthrow order. (Such zany wet-dreamery surely fueled several recent Democrat election wins, including that of New York City communist Zohran Mamdani. Sadly, one now anticipates that once-great city's crumbling.)

Recent polls document high percentages of leftists who believe physical assault is a perfectly legitimate tactic for the advancement of harbored notions.

"By any means necessary," as Malcolm X wrote. 

Disorder, arson, and vandalism are heatedly championed by Democrats who, being free of any concerns other than authority acquisition, look upon America's ongoing degradation with glee.

California Governor and apparent 2028 presidential contender Gavin Newsom, joined by San Francisco Mayor Karen Bass, has repeatedly defended raging "protesters" who've clogged thoroughfares, spray-painted treasonous slogans on storefronts, and obstructed police, sometimes hurling bricks and explosives at them. 

Office-ensconced Democrats who've shaken pom-poms for  criminality include Reps Bernie Sanders, Maxine Waters, and AOC; Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker; Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson; and Minnesota's Walz.

That rancid assemblage is augmented by Reps Rashida Tlaib, Ayanna Pressley, Dan Goldman, and LaMonica McIver; on-warpath Sen. Elizabeth Warren; House Speaker Hakeem Jeffries; and Boston's race-hustling Mayor Michelle Wu.

Small pond politicos desirous of spotlight also bellow ugliness. During an October CNN appearance, one Texas Democrat representative vowed to slash opponents' throats.

"Sanctuary" cities and states, where concepts of legality and goodness are given the horselaugh by Democrats, and whose streets teem with hordes of woke thugs, enjoy thunderous local government approbation.

"There is no longer a place for centrists and moderates in their party," observed Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson, in an October 27 press conference.

News accounts tell of left-wingers attempting to run over ICE agents. In Dallas, a maniac with "anti-ICE ammo" recently gunned down an ICE field office.

California's U.S. Rep. Robert Garcia uncurtained an online "ICE tracker," with which agents upholding citizenship laws could be obstructed, doxxed, and their children endangered. 

When Christian conservative Charlie Kirk was viciously murdered by a trans-loving miscreant, many politicians, professors, and molotov-hurling placard-wielders effectively donned party hats. 

Denver communists (intimate kin of woke Democrats) proclaimed "Charlie Kirk had it coming!" And leftists post social media photos of themselves sporting white t-shirts, shoulders spattered with fake blood, mocking the influential debater's assassination.

An ungainly kickline of black-robed quislings contrives to sabotage President Trump at each turn. Never mind that his impeccably constitutional initiatives are ones obviously favored by the voting majority that seated him behind the Resolute Desk. Twice.

Stunt rulings are manifestations of poison-heartedness that believes its cancerous ideology to be paramount, regardless of constitutional rectitude and popular will.

Not long ago, a Milwaukee liberal judge was utterly caught out, scheming to foil waiting ICE agents; she'd attempted to smuggle a domestic abuser/illegal through a private exit.

One vile internet progressive, now under investigation, offered $50,000 to anyone who'd assassinate Attorney General Pam Bondi. 

All that evidence of moral rot follows two (of which we know) Trump assassination schemes. Allegations that Democrats' mass street-brutality is bankrolled by enshadowed billionaires may prove correct. Nose rings and genital mutilation procedures don't pay for themselves.

Ideally, America is a nation where order is instinctively respected, and whose laws are enacted by the officials that citizens choose. We are free to peaceably advocate against laws and politicians we dislike, and to champion electoral aspirants that reflect our values.

But until an existing law is changed, no one has the right - neither legal nor moral - to choose which statutes merit obeying.

No one compelled Democrats to surge down the path of subversion and destruction. Doing so was their own terrible choice.

Waterloo's DC Larson is the author of That a Man Can Again Stand Up and Ideas Afoot. He counts among freelance credits the Daily Caller, Iowa Standard, American Thinker, and numerous Iowa papers. His political blog is American Scene Magazine.