Mark Levin’s Slander of the South

Apparently, Southerners are second-class citizens in the realm of ‘conservative’ talk radio, too.  For Mark Levin, on the Thursday, 23 July 2020, broadcast of his radio show, likened the brutal BLM/Antifa Marxist anarchists to the Southerners who tried to peacefully secede and form the Confederacy, saying both were attempts to overthrow the government in Washington City -- this, from the man who routinely excoriates the New York Times and other media groups for their lies and historical ignorance.  Yet here he is doing the same thing.  Hypocrite!  Go read Chapter 23 of St Matthew’s Gospel, if you are man enough to do so!

There are a few things wrong with Mr Levin’s comparison.  First, Southern secession was not an attempt to overthrow, by force of arms, the Lincoln administration in Washington and replace it with a regime of their own choosing; it was an effort to leave a voluntary union by a non-violent vote of the Southern States.  Second, Southerners of the antebellum sort highly cherished classical Greek and Roman civilization, the Christian faith, and the political traditions inherited from England, which is quite the reverse of the destructive spirit at work among BLM/Antifa Marxists.  Furthermore, the antebellum South was highly critical of socialism, making Mr Levin’s comparison of the two even more ridiculous.

We appreciate Mr Levin when he does some helpful things like exposing the fraud in the COVID stats.  But his slur against the honor of Dixie’s forefathers and mothers is inexcusable.  Unfortunately, he is not the only one saying it, either.  Sen Tom Cotton, a couple of days before Mr Levin, mouthed the same thing:

“The federal government cannot allow anarchists and insurrectionists to destroy federal courthouses, federal buildings, or other federal property. These insurrectionists in the streets of Portland are little different from the insurrectionists who seceded from the Union in 1861 in South Carolina and tried to take over Fort Sumter,” Cotton said Tuesday on “Fox & Friends,” referring to protests in the Oregon city.

--Rebecca Klar, The Hill

Nor are they the only ‘conservatives’ who hold such twisted views of Southern history.

All of this is reason enough for Southerners to reevaluate just what their true position is within the modern-day conservative movement and which of its manifestations they ought to support.

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Holy Ælfred the Great, King of England, South Patron, pray for us sinners at the Souð, unworthy though we are!

Anathema to the Union!