Now, if our schools (including colleges and universities) taught history, and not the pieties that fill the textbooks (however "woke" such textbooks may now be), and if "our free press" investigated warnings of the latest "threat" confronting us (according to the government), instead of amplifying such alarms non-stop, it would be clear at once to most of us, and not just to some few of us, that this year's "existential threat" is just as fake as those that came before, and that it too has been created by the government now using it to panic and divide the rest of us. Thus it was with "the communists" back in the Fifties (when countless "Reds" were agents of the FBI, and the CIA helped keep the Daily Worker going), then, after Soviet communism fell apart, with "Islamic terrorism" (all those "plots" concocted by the state), and now with "white supremacy" (a specter as delusory as the "killer virus" that was used to smash the world).

Here are glimpses of the latest show of "white supremacy," as captured over the weekend in Oregon, by some real patriots who scared off a contingent of the "Patriot Front," and unmasked two of them—both literally and figuratively. If (again) "our free press" took a duly skeptical approach to the scare stories pumped out by the government, instead of just repeating them ad nauseam (while trashing anyone who questions them), yesterday's unmasking would be major news, and not just one more passing flash of truth on Twitter.

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