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| The Brute-Force Left |
| 2015-02-09 |
| Kevin D. Williamson has become one of National Review's best writers. A taste of his latest: The Left’s last big idea was Communism. When Lenin turned out to be the god who failed, the Left undertook wide exploration for another grand unifying idea: environmentalism, multiculturalism, economic inequality, atheism, feminism, etc. What it ended up with was an enemies’ list. That and a taste for brute force. The enthusiasm for coercion and the substitution of enemies for ideas — Christians, white men, Israel, “the 1 percent,” the Koch brothers, take your pick — together form the basis for understanding the Left’s current convulsions. The call to imprison people with unapproved ideas about global warming, the Senate Democrats’ vote to repeal the First Amendment, the Ferguson-inspired riots, the picayune political correctness and thought-policing that annoys Jonathan Chait, the IRS’s persecution of conservative political groups, Barack Obama’s White House enemies’ list, the casual violence against conservatives on college campuses and the Left’s instinctive defense of that violence — these are not separate phenomena but part of a single phenomenon. The difference between Elizabeth Warren’s partisans and the Tontons Macoutes is very little more than testosterone and time. More at the link |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #3 We always had people like this with us---ask Hypatia, or Sarah Good. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2015-02-09 14:44 |
| #2 I wonder if there hasn't been a "left" in every country throughout history. Communism just brought them together under one roof with quotable nonsense and propoganda that helped them seem smarter than they are. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2015-02-09 14:34 |
| #1 The left is a disease that eats away inwardly on any country they happen to be in until that country is gutted. They are hard on the country, easy on its enemies. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2015-02-09 10:11 |