Anti-Israel protests at universities and colleges continue to escalate across the nation, and the “encampment drama” may ultimately provide an avenue for exploiting the disaster against the Left.
The radical left-wing, pro-Palestine protesters “will not be able to manipulate the emotions of sympathy and guilt on a mass scale, as they did with George Floyd,” contends Christopher Rufo, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute.
“Ultimately, the spectacle of masked Antifa-style protesters occupying campuses over a foreign conflict and supporting Hamas-style ‘decolonization’ does not offer a clear and significant upside,” he wrote in a post published Monday.
So, @realchrisrufo has yet again laid out his strategy in public, therefore it is going to work. This means that as per his stated strategy, the circle of connotations is getting locked in and the dots will be connected in public.
Let’s get to work. https://t.co/u5NPVUsWxK
— Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) April 30, 2024
However, Rufo noted, there is “a significant potential downside” as the occupying “divides the Left, alienates influential supporters, and creates a sense of chaos that will move people against it.”
This, in turn, provides the Right with an opportunity “to create the conditions for these protests to flourish in blue cities and campuses, while preventing them in red cities and campuses,” Rufo suggested, predicting “a 1968 scenario” if the protests become more violent, as they have, and continue up to the Democratic convention in Chicago.
“In other words: make the Left own its pro-Hamas faction, or, alternatively, force the Left to deal with it – by breaking up the encampments, punishing wrongdoers, and restoring order, at whatever political cost this may exact. Let Ivy League presidents discover the consequences of their actions (or inactions) – and gently increase pressure from the outside,” Rufo wrote.
Ivy League universities hired “decolonization” scholars, recruited left-wing activist students, and elevated sympathetic administrators. Let them deal with the consequences of their own actions. No need to bail them out.
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) April 30, 2024
The one caveat though is “overreaction” as Rufo warned that “Conservative leaders must work to prevent violence and disrupt violent left-wing political networks before these can mobilize, but they should be judicious in how they respond to provocations.”
“Our leaders must appear calm, cool, rational and successful in preventing, rather than responding to, violence. Keep red jurisdictions functioning normally, while drawing the contrast with blue areas that appear to be the opposite,” he wrote, noting that most Americans “support Israel over Hamas, and are exhausted by the prospect of George Floyd redux.”
Protect their right to speak. Amplify the most unpopular elements of their message. Encourage law enforcement to sit on the sidelines. Let the Ivy League own the pro-Hamas Left. https://t.co/drUg5uANee
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) April 30, 2024
Using the example of GOP Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and the protective measures he has in place to combat the left’s agenda in the Sunshine State, Rufo urged the Right to “keep the focus on the disorder overrunning left-wing jurisdictions – culminating, perhaps, in coalitional discord at the Democratic convention – it will move public opinion in our direction.”
“One path to success in politics, after all, is shifting problems to your opponents – and capitalizing on them,” he concluded.
When your enemy finds himself in a crisis, do not solve it for him.
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) April 30, 2024
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