To quote from August 26, 2000:
"I don't have much today other than to say that I'm extremely worried about extremism taking over America, especially from the left. Yes, there are right-wing extremists in militias and alt-right sympathies in politics that are way too central to our daily lives, but I'm just very worried that the agitations of the left will lead to something serious besides reform. If there's one thing I've argued for all my life, it's natural rights and a decentralization of power according to the Constitution. I fear that notion is about to be abridged or usurped on grounds of race, class, and gender, amorphous in definition and in thrall to ideological programs steeped in authoritarianism. Black Lives Matter has taken on a mission statement replete with an academic leftist undertone of Marxist hodge-podge. The left is using our weaknesses not to protest for reform, but as revolution and open revolt against norms and property.
Today is a sad day and I write with a heavy heart. I fear that voices like mine arguing for reform and justice will get pushed into the background and that voices arguing for power now will be heeded. To be on the wrong side of history is one thing, both in this life and the future, but I fear that the history I am on the wrong side of is itself wrong.
That is all I have to say for tonight, really.
I should also point out that our ineffectual President and what passes for the American right these days sheds no responsibility for a lack of leadership in difficult times. Instead of listening, thinking, and looking into matters such as police brutality in the inner cities, we see them writing off the protestors as "anarchists" and "agitators," sending in federal troops to quell unrest in the inner cities and exurbs affected by police violence. This sort of attitude that demonizes justified pushback is a hindrance to all of us that value true law and order. The vacuum created by empty platitudes and a lack of response to the problem makes even the radical agitators legitimate in peoples' minds. It is a slow rot, disconcerting and troublesome to those that seek real liberty tempered by a real valuation of law and order, not some empty catch phrase or meat for the base. It would seem that in the words of someone wiser than I, now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their party, not any partisan political party, but the party of true democrats and republicans. I have never been sadder than watching the past three years and seeing people take sides anathema to republicanism from the right as well as the left. It is something that leaves me less than sanguine about our country's fortunes.
And that's it for the night."