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For a few overheated hours on Saturday, a group of boys from a Catholic high school in Kentucky became the most hated figures in America.

Television anchors denounced them as bigots. Journalists with Harvard degrees called them “privileged.” Republican commentators scolded them as bad Christians. Famous actors suggested they should be hunted down and punched in the face. Some on social media called for them to be killed.

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CNN political analyst Kirsten Powers now says the boys are still guilty of "disrespecting an indigenous elder.” That elder would be Nathan Phillips, the man with the now famous drum. There’s growing evidence that Phillips concocted key elements of his story, as well as parts of his own biography, and that’s he done it before.

The press isn’t rushing to find out. Kirsten Powers doesn’t seem to care, one way or the other. Nor did she explain how exactly the boys disrespected Phillips. Identity politics doesn’t concern itself with details like these. It’s not about individuals, or what actually happened to specific people on a given day. Identity politics is a set of moral judgments about groups. Some groups are always right, no matter what the tape shows.

Laura Wagner didn’t even bother to look at the tape, any of it. Wagner is a reporter at Deadspin, which used to be a sports site before the revolution began. In an article Monday night, Wagner described the boys' behavior at the Lincoln memorial as “a racially-charged frenzy of barely-restrained violence” committed by a “frothing mass of MAGA youth, frenzied and yelling and out of control.”

She went on like this, paragraph after paragraph. And of course, anyone who disagrees with that assessment is a racist. Keep in mind, as you read that, that there is literally nothing in the documentary record –on tape or in the testimony of anyone – to support any of Wagner’s claims. Every word is just made up out of nothing. Imagine if someone was writing things like that about your son.

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You’d think somebody, at some point, in media land, would wonder how all this misreporting is affecting the kids who were falsely accused. But no. There’s no sympathy for Covington Catholic in America’s newsrooms. In the mind of your average reporter in Washington, these kids are from a different country. Less than that, actually. They’re from hostile country, a place we must subdue for our own safety.

That’s the attitude. And it may accounts for the left’s embrace of violent rhetoric in the age of Trump.

Back more than a year ago, when CNN anchors publicly defended Antifa, it seemed at the time they might have misspoken. Maybe they didn’t know what Antifa was.

Now it’s clear they knew exactly what Antifa was. Our ruling class has told us they’re fine with punching Nazis. Now, they’ve declared they’re okay with punching children. How long before they’re okay with punching you?

We can only quell the Hatred and Intolerance of teenage Trump supporters by punching them violently in their grinning faces. How can we hope to #Resist the tide of dangerous #MAGA pomposity which is seeping into America’s youth if we are not prepared to smash our fists into some adolescent’s irritatingly-amused visage?

It was discovered after a day or so of the video emerging that Nathan Phillips, the fearless Native American Vietnam veteran isn’t in fact a Vietnam veteran as such, but the disclosure of this information itself is disrespectful. In my eyes, he IS a veteran. He is a Warrior Chieftain of the Great Plains. He has braved much in his life the rest of us could ne’er comprehend. I’ve seen Dances with Wolves and Wild Wild West, so I know the struggles this man has undergone. He didn’t deserve that smirk. Nobody deserves to be smirked at. It’s a violation of our human rights. It is a FACECRIME (copyright, George Orwell).

I will move heaven and Earth until I dig up enough dirt on these foul teenagers to destroy them all. Name them, shame them. Make sure they never hold down a job. Ensure that every time they walk into a public place, they are in fear of their lives. It’s the only way to teach them love and tolerance. Let’s literally punch away their problematic adoration of Trump until nothing remains but a hollow shell of the boys they once were. Smash those toxic smirks from their faces with our Clenched Fists of Righteous Harmony.

After all, a smirk from an arrogant young college student is not a thing to be taken lightly. A smirk could very quickly evolve into a smug chuckle, which could then transform into a mocking remark and then where will we be?

Nazi Germany, that’s where.