The lines have been drawn, and this is not going to end well. Over the weekend, the positive glee of many people on the left who were whooping it up over the stalking and confrontation of Trump administration officials may signal that this is the tipping point in civil society.

You see, if these people are “literally Hitler” or “actual Nazis,” then violence is justified, right? Maxine Waters said so. And the blue-check lefties are lining up to declare where they fall in this clash of the “woke” vs. the sane.

You see, sane people who disagree with the Trump administration and vocally oppose it want nothing to do with this brand of insanity.

Dems have a singularly uncanny ability to take a week of visceral leftward momentum…and suddenly drive millions back into Trump’s arms. #smh https://t.co/Xbp7K81Adr

— S.E. Cupp (@secupp) June 25, 2018

And then there are the people who want more.

Bottom line is that I'm very comfortable with a non violent form of social censure being visited upon people who implement and defend such intentionally harmful policies. Far less pain is being visited upon Sarah et al than these families at the border. Shame on the whole lot

— John Legend (@johnlegend) June 25, 2018

Her boss is talking about an infestation and invasion by animals and rapists, etc. Intentionally dehumanizing Latinos so that he can more comfortably visit harm upon them. While tearing their families apart and interning them in tented camps This is Nazi shit. Fuck politeness.

— John Legend (@johnlegend) June 25, 2018

And there we go. John Legend is truly an idiot. When this ends with a Trump administration official being seriously injured, or an innocent bystander – say, a neighbor of Secretary Nielsen’s – being caught in the crossfire, what will John Legend say then, from behind his gated mansion and armed security?

It’s been just a year since we saw an outbreak of political violence that saw Congressional Republicans being deliberately targeted because they were Republicans, by a “Bernie Bro” who clearly had intent. With all of the continuing stalking and harassment of figures like Secretary Nielsen, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, and Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi, it is sadly only a matter of time before someone like the baseball practice shooter decides to take aim at someone prominent.

And the sane voices that are at least aware enough of where this will end are getting drowned out.

Couldn’t disagree more with @MaxineWaters. Disgusted with this admin’s policies? Organize, donate, volunteer, VOTE! Rousting Cabinet members from restaurants is an empty and, ultimately, counter-productive gesture that won’t change a thing.

— David Axelrod (@davidaxelrod) June 25, 2018

David you’re parroting the opposition to every civil rights protest in US history. “Please find a way to protest that’s convenient for the oppressors in power.” It’s time you Washington elites taste what it’s like for the rest of us in the trenches.

— Joel Lawhead (@JoelLawhead) June 25, 2018

We always fall for the republican narrative. If you ask me, Maxine seems to be the only one with any guts! No Apologies!!!

— bennydiegø ✯ (@bennydiego) June 25, 2018

Would you have said the same about those supporting Hitler? Just curious where your line is.

— G-F (@G_F_G_F1) June 25, 2018

https://twitter.com/KangasMom1/status/1011277922953506817
That’s the problem. It’s already crossed the border into “violent.” Bondi was spat upon while trying to leave a movie – legally, that’s assault. Steve Scalise is alive today because of the Capitol Hill police who were able to return fire from a man intent on killing Republicans.

Good God, even Nancy Pelosi served up a weak rebuke to Maxine Waters, and the “Resistance” was having none of it.

In the crucial months ahead, we must strive to make America beautiful again. Trump’s daily lack of civility has provoked responses that are predictable but unacceptable. As we go forward, we must conduct elections in a way that achieves unity from sea to shining sea. https://t.co/vlpqOBLK4R

— Nancy Pelosi (@NancyPelosi) June 25, 2018

I know this has to be your ‘official’ response, but I’m with Maxine. Time to go toe to toe for the rest of us

— Paul (Doug)las Shuck (@ShuckDoug) June 25, 2018

PLEASE, DEMOCRATS:

Do NOT fall into the Republican/media trap of agreeing that peacefully protesting people who are enabling a march to fascism is being "uncivil." In fact, a mark of civilization is resisting the ever-present forces of oppression. https://t.co/Fy88KnVBVw

— Peter Daou (@peterdaou) June 25, 2018

Hello, Rep. Pelosi. I'd be careful not to throw black women under the bus. As a privilege white woman, you don't get to choose how black folks respond to white supremacy that doesn't threaten your personal safety. https://t.co/L6JMNU1Zyt

— Terrell J. Starr (@Russian_Starr) June 25, 2018

I do not want unity with Nazis.

— Jessica Ellis (@baddestmamajama) June 25, 2018

Kurt Schlichter put it this way:

There’s really nowhere else for the liberals to go but towards embracing widespread violence. The logic of their twisted mindset is such that Normals are not merely wrong and not merely evil, but that normal Americans and those who represent them are the evilest evildoers in evil history.

This does not leave much room for reasoned debate. In fact, it makes reasoned debate impossible. So, since they’ve taken reasoned debate off the table, there are not a lot of options left for resolving political and cultural differences. There are lies, intimidation, and violence. That’s about it. And the first two have stopped working.

We’re already seeing it play out. The mainstream media quit even pretending to be honest – it’s in full scale fib mode. Look at the Time magazine cover of the little girl whose scumbag mom dragged her across the desert to help her break our laws (apparently without daddy’s permission and not for the first time). That Time cover is a lie, but it’s no surprise. The only surprise is that Time magazine is still a thing.

In fact, the whole manufactured outrage over Democrat-preferred criminals being treated like every other criminal was a lie. And the media not only doesn’t care but actively and consciously supports lying to you to support its liberal allies. But no one cares anymore. They can lie and lie and lie, and do, and we just smile and buy more guns and ammo.

So the leftists attempt to intimidate us into submission, showing up at people’s houses and screaming at them in restaurants. Take that, Sarah! The idea is since the leftists can’t convince Normals with the power of their ideas – because leftists’ ideas inevitably involve Normals ceding more of their rights and money to leftists – the left wants to make submission and obedience the price for being able to participate in the culture. But what’s inevitable is that us newly militant Normals, whose power is political rather than cultural, are going to respond pursuant to the New Rules and demand that leftists bake us a cake.

Or, as someone on Twitter tried to tell John Legend:

First off John. For the Nazi reference, fuck you. I'm getting sick and tired of you left-wingers invoking my family members who were gassed by actual Nazis who happened to be citizens of Germany and Austria and trying to compare it to our illegal immigration law. That's first.

— Meier Ben Avraham (@hebrewservative) June 25, 2018

Second, this is a fight you don't want John. This is a fight you are not going to like when you guys try to push us and we push back.

You don't intimidate us anymore John. You're not going to like this game once we start playing too.

Just saying.

— Meier Ben Avraham (@hebrewservative) June 25, 2018

The radical left has decided that those who do not agree with them on every single thing are the enemy. This is the same mentality that ended up kicking pro-life groups out of the Women’s March back in 2017, and showed where the priorities of the radical left truly lie – not with unity, but with lock-step conformity. Unless you agree that the opposition are actual Nazis, you are an enemy to their “Resistance.” It’s just a few steps from “join, or suffer” to “submit, or die.”

After eight years of the Obama administration, I learned to disassociate politics from my everyday life. And I was fully prepared to do the same during a Hillary Clinton administration. I did not vote for either Trump or Hillary, and while I take politics seriously, it is not good for my mental well-being to live and breathe the whims of ineffective government and not focus on the REAL LIFE that happens around me daily. Most sane people just want to live and let live. If the radicals decide that this is no longer good enough for them, they won’t like what happens next. When this kind of crazy follows ordinary people home, civility has died.

DHS tells staffers to 'keep doors and windows locked' after burned animal found on official's porch https://t.co/LdF33sThcp

— The Washington Times (@WashTimes) June 25, 2018

If we are all going to be forced onto sides in a social civil war, I don’t think anyone will like the result.