No, You Are Not the #Resistance

The final point is this, and it is something that the “resistance” needs to hear. You are not heroes.

Of late, everyone on the left seems to be infatuated with the idea of resistance. Resistance to the GOP, to President Trump, to basically everyone on the American political right. This “resistance” is comprised of angry tweets, the occasional march, and the loathsome and cowardly hordes of black clothed Antifa “revolutionaries,” of whom 92% still live in their parent’s home.

Their weapons are social media posts, their propaganda is the mainstream media, and their martyrs are the perpetually offended. In truth, the resistance is ineffective and largely uninformed.

Most puzzling, however, is these individuals’ dedication to resisting President Trump’s administration, when they hold all of the establishment power on their side. This is not a resistance. This is a group of petulant young people and immature adults who are upset because they didn’t get their way. To use the term “resistance” implies some form of struggle against an oppressive regime. It is, frankly, an insult to those who are involved in true resistance movements.

Consider the most famous resistance movement in American History: the Revolutionary War. Farmers, shop clerks, and common men rose up, rifles and muskets in hand, to throw off the shackles of an oppressive monarch. These brave men signed their lives away, giving up everything in an attempt to free their nation.