Alan Jeffs

A few weeks ago I got, from the official Republicans here, an email relayed from one "Carl Moore" about some Antifa invasion of Greeley(!) on 5 June. The mail stank of rat, as do all email ahadith. I hadn't previously visited Greeley and I didn't choose that Friday (a work day) as my day to start. And now we might have the source of such invitations to violence:

Drudge links around a firewall to a WaPo article, reposted at Stars & Stripes. It's about someone who trolls the conspiratorial Right, most notoriously lately concerning a NVA flag-burning at Gettysburg. A mirror to how the Yes Men troll the corporate Left. Call him "Alan Jeffs".

As I read it, this article is comprehensive and fair. But still, overall, a job-interview for the Alinskyites.

Jeffs, born 1982, is a charismatic loser. He charmed his way into a marriage and four years later, his wife dumped his ass. He never really got a job. Lacking persistent health-insurance, he moved from basic-bitch 20something Kerry-voting liberalism into Socialism. Because the American medical-industry owes him.

As do many losers, Jeffs looks around for other losers in his crab-bucket to pull down. Jeffs has chosen, as his target, the #MAGA base. That's the base which the more charitable sociologists observe are descending into opiates and self-harm. Thither, but for the grace of Satan, goeth Jeffs.

Jeffs is, thus far, like Audacious Epigone, Kevin Williamson, Donald Trump, and myself in recognising that these people are unwell. Williamson is the angry distant father yelling at his troubled son MAKE SOMETHING OF YOURSELF, as if that helps. Trump promised to help and (up to this spring) had actually delivered, somewhat. I am ... just an observer, at this point.

Jeffs for all his Socialist posturing isn't out to help. He plays on White American insecurity and basks in the result, as Murrkins show up where he tells them to and make a spectacle of themselves.

I will admit here that I do not like Alan Jeffs. He's that sort of bully who needles the autistic kid in class. At some level it feels personal.

On the other hand, there's a point where the autistic kid needs to hunker down and weather it out, and find some other way to beat this guy. The first step is to deny him his fun.

UPDATE 7/18: Empathy.

UPDATE 8/10: And again. Although, here, he dragged in Ben Shapiro. Shapiro may have a legal case.