Victor Davis Hanson has just published a superb column on the collective aims of Leftists across America:
The old liberal idea that the new demography is progressive destiny did not work out as planned. When the Blue Wall crumbled; Hillary Clinton lost a sure-thing election. Large Latino populations in red Texas and blue California are not likely to turn either one into a swing state. Inner-city voters so far have not transferred prior record levels of turn-out and bloc voting to candidates of the Hillary Clinton sort. Identity politics did not ensure that the white liberals who created it were always exempt from the natural boomerang of their own ideology.
Most Americans are quite willing to concede spheres of partisanship — but not lawlessness. Some colleges, such as Evergreen State or UC Berkeley, while public and tax-supported, are, by definition, leftist in the manner that a private Hillsdale College or Saint Thomas Aquinas are traditionalist and conservative. But whereas the latter are calm and tolerant of dissent; the former, with public monies, are hysterical and often Stalinist when confronted by opposing views. That disconnect is unsustainable.
The reason why leftists and other socialist ilk get hysterical when their views are challenged is because they self-anoint as superior – intellectually and morally, at the very least – to everyone else, especially conservatives, Christians, and now Trump supporters.
Who is an inferior (e.g., a Trump supporter) to dare challenge their world-view?
That inferior, if he or she dares to challenge the world-view of the leftist or socialist, must be punished for daring to do so. That’s why they grant themselves the right to physically punish those who dare even via speech to challenge them.
That is why leftists, socialists, and their ilk have no hesitation about physically attacking conservative or Christian women, even though they claim to support feminism.
They self-anoint as superior.
Progressive Dems are working diligently to normalize the extreme. Normalizing the extreme opens a Pandora’s box of unintended and unwanted consequences. Progressive Dems refuse to take responsibility for the consequences of their good intentions. As a result, we all have to live with outcome.
Applause … standing on chair applauding wildly !!!!
So. many. good. quotes. in VDH’s piece … my two favorites:
It is hypocritical too in the Soviet style of a privileged apparat — given that movies are the products of huge corporations and multimillionaire actors who live apartheid existences.
And what a GREAT sentence …
They are bored with the latest predictable remake of a far better earlier movie — now updated with tattooed, white villains speaking in a Russian, South African, or southern accent, diabolically seeking to harm a young, picture-perfect progressive social-justice warrior as she uncovers the racist, sexist, and homophobic machinations of an evil corporation or government agency, run by a white male cabal, that aims to pollute the water, dirty the air, or rob noble progressive victims.
“Will America the patient buckle under the treatment and its side effects before the malady is mastered?”
I’m a bit confused. Isn’t buckling the malady?
They have to live with the outcome as well- it seems for years that they thought they’d be insulated from their decisions-enduring that was for others-now they’re learning they’ll be subject to their policies whether they like it or not and they don’t like it. Tough cookies.
Interesting catch Mr. McMaster.
VDH rules!