Over at the National Schismatic Reporter, usual suspect Michael Sean Winters has let the cover slip from the cauda.
Here is a bit of thinking which fully justifies a new nickname as a member of the New catholic Red Guards. Remember who they were? The Red Guards? After Mao sparked the youth in the Cultural Revolution, they rampaged through the byways, targeting political enemies for public humiliation and execution.
Or maybe a better image is the Terror of the French Revolution.
Some of you young’uns might not know who the Tricoteues were.
As the French Revolution descended into the Reign of Terror, the women of the streets and markets who had been active were sidelined from politics. In sullen protest, they parked themselves near the guillotine and did their knitting. Thus, Tricoteuses … knitter women. In literature, you might remember the ghastly figure of Madame Defarge in Charles Dickens’ A Tale Of Two Cities.
In his melt-down about recent Supreme Court decisions, MSW concluded:
I had been prepared for the Janus decision to go the way it did. I was, therefore, surprised by how angry I got when the decision was released and how my anger did not dissipate. I left my computer to go work in the garden, something that almost always restores equanimity, but not this time. The Supreme Court had a chance to defend the decency of the nation and it failed to do so.
Normally, when I get into a debate with a conservative friend and we are at an impasse, with no hope for resolution, I try to ease the tension with levity, and say, “Well, when the revolution comes, I will put in a good word for you and your family.” To my friends in the Republican political and legal establishment who have not stood up to Trump: When the revolution comes, you are on your own, and I will be clamoring not for mercy but for a seat next to the guillotine, where I can do my knitting.
In a more jocular mood, I prefer the less horrifying image of MSW as the Wile E. Coyote of the catholic web.
Now he is Madame Defarge, Tricoteuse of the catholic Left. He has risen from his fainting couch and moved to the guillotine with his needles.
His is a particularly venomous mind but this vision of the future is what the Left really wants.
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I was sent this message from Hermit Sister.
Meantime on your latest NCRenegade post, I noticed the post from the National Catholic Reporter. That paper is very liberal and does not represent faithful Catholics. In fact, if we refer to that paper we do so with a small ‘c’ for catholic. My favorite Catholic priest blogger, Fr. Z, had a post on that very same article which you might find of interest regarding another point of view. In particular many of the comments… the comment by ‘Semper Gumby’ got a Gold Star from Fr. Z, who by the way also has a great sense of humor. Fr. Z refers to that paper as both the National Schismatic Reporter and the ‘Fishwrap’ with an image he created.
David DeGerolamo
