Sunday, July 13, 2025

How the Left Lost Its Collective Mind

 Victor Davis Hanson 

. . . "Add it all up, and the impotent Left in all its orthodox and street manifestations has become unhingedAnd why not when it rightly fears that not just its power, but the very sources of its power, are in mortal danger?"


"Across the political Left, from orthodox Democrats to Antifa in the streets, the opposition to President Donald Trump has lost its collective mind.
"The Democrat House minority leader and now self-styled tough guy, New York Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, poses with a baseball bat to show how dangerous he is in opposing President Donald Trump’s budget bill.
"Jeffries harangued Congress for eight hours; New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker went on for 25—both to no effect.The Daily Signal depends on the support of readers like you. 
"Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez hit the rally trail in private jets to rail about oligarchs, omitting that the ultrarich are not only mostly leftists but also the funders of the Democratic Party.
"Sometimes the Democrats in Congress make bizarre videos, featuring profanity like f— or s—. On other occasions, they scream and interrupt Congress.
"Some representatives now confess that they’re being pressured by their constituents to take a bullet for the cause. The racialist Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett—sometimes playing the prep-school prima donna, sometimes modulating her accent to pass as the authentic inner-city activist—gains headlines for monotonously ranting about old white men.
"On left-wing social media, the assassin Luigi Mangione remains a heartthrob for murdering a health care executive, replacing the Tsarnaev brothers as the hot new left-wing killer.
"He, too, might soon end up with a cover photo on Rolling Stone.
"The left-wing internet mob grotesquely claims that children lost to the recent flash flood in Texas deserved their fate.
"They even advance three sick reasons for their ghoulishness. Texas Christians supported the MAGA agenda and thus met a just fate. Or, as red-state Texans, they were deservedly collateral damage to the Department of Government Efficiency’s bureaucratic reductions. Or, as climate denialists would say, the flash flood took righteous revenge on children for their supposed ignorance.
"Add it all up, and there is a sizable leftist “base” that is completely amoral." . . .

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