Representative Adam Schiff (D-Crazy Eyes) appeared on MSNBC’s “Deadline” Wednesday to pronounce the grim verdict of history on the man who indelibly dubbed him “Little Pencil Neck,” Donald J. Trump. “I feel that keenly,” Schiff declared, “I am very confident history will rebuke Donald Trump and everyone who stood with him.” Schiff’s disdain for the America-First president is nothing new, but in stating it this time he confirmed yet again the Democrats’ march toward socialism, as the business about history judging people is straight out of the Marxist talking points folder.
While his use of Marxist rhetoric is striking, Adam Schiff as the arbiter and judge of whom history will rebuke is laughable. This is, after all, the man who was still insisting as late as April 2019 that there was “ample evidence of collusion” between Trump and Russia “in plain sight,” and that “the obstruction of justice in particular in this case is far worse than anything that Richard Nixon did. I would say in every way this is more significant than Watergate.” Despite the fact that the Democratic Congressional leadership had its knives out for Trump from the moment he declared his candidacy, no such evidence of collusion or obstruction of justice was ever presented.
Yet Schiff has never apologized for being so resoundingly on the wrong side of history in that instance. He likely believes that the inexorable tide of history will prove him correct at last. Schiff probably believes this as fervently as Leon Trotsky did in his Mexican exile, before Stalin, who was too impatient to sit back and wait for history to do its work, sent one of his minions to plant an axe blade in Trotsky’s skull. And the real flow of history will likely go as unhappily, albeit less bloodily, for Schiff as it did for Trotsky.
Marxists are materialists, so all they have is history and the pseudo-religious faith that it will eventually prove them to have been right all along. The march of time is a slow but unstoppable progression toward collectivism and socialism. That’s why Leftists like to call themselves “progressives”: They hope to fool us into thinking that their policies and recommendations are ultimately unavoidable and destined to prevail, for that is what history itself dictates, and everything is progressing in the direction they favor.
While his use of Marxist rhetoric is striking, Adam Schiff as the arbiter and judge of whom history will rebuke is laughable. This is, after all, the man who was still insisting as late as April 2019 that there was “ample evidence of collusion” between Trump and Russia “in plain sight,” and that “the obstruction of justice in particular in this case is far worse than anything that Richard Nixon did. I would say in every way this is more significant than Watergate.” Despite the fact that the Democratic Congressional leadership had its knives out for Trump from the moment he declared his candidacy, no such evidence of collusion or obstruction of justice was ever presented.
Yet Schiff has never apologized for being so resoundingly on the wrong side of history in that instance. He likely believes that the inexorable tide of history will prove him correct at last. Schiff probably believes this as fervently as Leon Trotsky did in his Mexican exile, before Stalin, who was too impatient to sit back and wait for history to do its work, sent one of his minions to plant an axe blade in Trotsky’s skull. And the real flow of history will likely go as unhappily, albeit less bloodily, for Schiff as it did for Trotsky.
Marxists are materialists, so all they have is history and the pseudo-religious faith that it will eventually prove them to have been right all along. The march of time is a slow but unstoppable progression toward collectivism and socialism. That’s why Leftists like to call themselves “progressives”: They hope to fool us into thinking that their policies and recommendations are ultimately unavoidable and destined to prevail, for that is what history itself dictates, and everything is progressing in the direction they favor.
