In the comments, the question was raised: Why do I paint the left with so broad a brush? What about the moderate left, which is open to appeals to reason?
My answer is simply this: it's gone.
Look at the furor surrounding an attempt to by prominent writers to stand against "cancel culture." The old liberal wing - based on free speech, individual liberty - has collapsed completely.
Slow Joe Biden, who was once something of a centrist (certainly he favored banking centers in Delaware), has now embraced every radical policy pushed by Bernie Sanders. He was pitched in the primaries as the "safe, reasonable" choice, but his positions are indistinguishable from the radical "Squad" on the far left of the Democrat Caucus.
Even if the moderates hadn't immediately folded on their abortive letter in opposition to cancel culture, a close reading of it showed they didn't object to censorship by the mob, they merely objected to it being applied to them.
Leftist institutions are nothing more than front organizations pushing for the radical overthrow of the existing order. The ACLU no longer supports free speech, the ADL is comfortable with anti-semitism so long as it supports their cause of Orange Man Bad.
Maybe these people will come out of their bunkers on election day, but I get a sense that they also dislike Trump and figure once he's gone, then they can take back their party.
But history shows that it won't work like that.
Once the radicals gain the summit of power, they go into overdrive and their first victims will be the people on their own side who might get in their way.
You'd think the right wouldn't have to explain the left to itself, but I guess that's where we are.
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