"Are you now, or have you ever been, a member of the Republican party?"
"One extremist is one too many," Bishop Garrison told a Center for American Progress seminar.
Garrison, the man tasked by the Biden administration with fighting “extremism” in the military, had reversed Blackstone’s ratio, “It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer.” It was better to wreck the careers of a million soldiers to find one extremist.
The Elizabeth Warren supporter was talking about his plans to fight extremism to a leftist group run by one of Biden’s few nominees so extreme she couldn’t manage to get past the Senate.
Speaking alongside Garrison was Jessica Gonzalez of Change the Terms, an organization advocating for more internet censorship, formerly of the National Hispanic Media Coalition which coordinated with La Raza whose name means The Race and was derived from the works of Nazi collabotator Jose Vasconcelos. Antonia Hernandez, another participant, had taken part in a La Raza convention. But these weren’t the extremists that Garrison was looking for.
Bishop Garrison is the sort of man who writes that, “when I walk into a room — a conference room, a board room, an auditorium, a lecture hall — I count the black and brown faces.”
The man in charge of hunting for extremism is a firm believer in systemic racism.
He speaks in the dogmatic cant of critical race theory, tweeting about “intersectionality” in national security, promoted Ta-Nehisi Coates’ call for racial reparations, and hails the racist revisionist history of the 1619 Project.
To Garrison, America is suffering from the "original sin of slavery" and "the threat of systemic racism is one of our greatest national security challenges." Racism, he claims, is an “existential threat” and he sees it everywhere around him except when he looks in the bathroom mirror.
When Governor Ron DeSantis told Florida voters not to “monkey this up”, Garrison replied, "it was absolutely racist. To defend the statement is to defend racism." But Garrison also defended the Portland Antifa rioters, insisting that the riots were a “peace demonstration against racism”.
Garrison had previously accused President Trump of “normalizing” extremists. “Support for him, a racist, is support for ALL his beliefs,” he had ranted. But he defended Rep. Ilhan Omar and Rep. Rashida Tlaib as women of color "facing racism led by the President of the United States."
This is the hateful radical race-driven psyche of the man appointed to head the Countering Extremism Working Group whose first task is to create a definition of extremism for...
