The Crybaby Leftist Mind
Victor Davis Hanson / June 30, 2022
Modern progressives assume moral and intellectual authority.
Consequently, their supposedly superior ends naturally justify
almost any means necessary to achieve them.
Among the elite, the Democrats’ “blue wall” states were once con-
sidered a testament to the wisdom of the Electoral College. When that
wall crumbled in 2016 to Donald Trump, the Electoral College suddenly
was blasted as a relic of our anti-democratic Founders.
The nine-person Supreme Court was once beloved. On issues like
abortion, school prayer, same-sex marriage, pornography, and Miranda
rights, the left cheered the court as it made the law and ignored
legislatures and presidents.
Republican court picks—Harry Blackmun, William Brennan, Anthony
Kennedy, Sandra Day O’Connor, Lewis Powell, John Roberts, David
Souter, John Paul Stevens, Potter Stewart, and Earl Warren—would
often flip leftward. How could they not be swayed by the greater
brilliance of their liberal colleagues?
From affirmative action to Roe v. Wade to Obamacare, apostate Re-
publican justices for a half-century greenlighted legislating from
the bench.
In response, was there any serious right-wing talk of packing the
court with six additional justices to slow down its overreaching
left-wing majority—or of a mob massing at the home of a left-wing
justice? Certainly not.
But now?
Suddenly a narrow constructionist majority has returned matters
of abortion to the states. And the once-beloved court is being
slandered by leftist insurrectionists as illegitimate.
Every sort of once-unthinkable attack on the courts is now
permissible.
Confidential draft opinions are leaked illegally. A senior senator
threatens justices by name at the doors of the court. The homes of
justices are surrounded by heckling protesters. And the very life
of a justice is threatened by a would-be assassin close to his home.
Consider also the Senate filibuster. Former President Barack Obama
not long ago ranted that it was racist and a 180-year-old relic.
Obama’s logic was infantile. When Democrats were in the Senate mi-
nority, he was giddy that the filibuster could slow down the Repub-
lican majority. Indeed, while a senator, Obama himself filibustered
the nomination of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito.
When Democrats were in the majority, however, a pouting Obama
blasted the filibuster as a racist, Jim Crow roadblock.
Can the Jan. 6 committee issue some universal declaration that de-
feated candidates should not question the integrity of an election,
much less call for it to be ignored?
Apparently not. In 2016, a defeated Hillary Clinton claimed the
winner, Donald Trump, was illegitimate—this from the architect of
the entire Russian-collusion hoax.
Clinton then trumped her own inflammatory rhetoric by urging Pres-
ident Joe Biden not to accept the 2020 tally of the balloting if he
lost.
Former President Jimmy Carter agreed that Clinton won the 2016
election and Trump was thus illegitimate.
Hollywood actors appeared in commercials, insurrectionary-style,
urging Republican electors to renounce their constitutional duties
and instead elect Clinton.
On racial matters, the left is most intellectually bankrupt.
During the recent confirmation hearings of an African American
nominee to the Supreme Court, federal Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson,
the left alleged that tough questioners were racists and sexists
for “bullying” Jackson.
Yet she got the kid-glove treatment compared with the character
assassinations of past conservative nominees. Brett Kavanaugh was
smeared as teen-aged rapist and targeted by former Democratic media
heartthrob Michael Avenatti, now an imprisoned felon.
Currently, loud mobs of affluent, young white women have been
circling the home of African American Supreme Court Justice Clar-
ence Thomas—just 1 of 5 court justices who voted to let the states
decide the status of abortion.
Thomas did not write the majority opinion that overturned Roe v.
Wade, but then again, leftists have a toxic fixation with blacks
who do not appreciate their condescension.
In the left-wing mind, the buffoonish Capitol riot on Jan. 6 was
an “insurrection.”
Yet, the much larger May 31, 2020, riot that sought to storm the
White House grounds and sent the president into a bunker was the
sort of mob violence that “was not going to stop,” in the words of
now-Vice President Kamala Harris.
The recent pro-abortion mob assault on the Arizona state Senate,
the left insists, was an apparent cry of the heart.
What would the left do if after the 2022 midterms, a Republican
majority Congress emulated its own infantile tantrums?
Imagine a new House speaker, Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., tearing up
Biden’s State of the Union address on live television.
How about the House impeaching Biden twice, even as a private
citizen in 2025?
Envision a 22-month, $40 million investigation of the entire Biden
quid pro quo, corrupt family syndicate?
What if McCarthy booted left-wing congressional representatives
from key select committees?
And what if conservatives showed up screaming at the gates of one
of Obama’s three mansions?
How odd that leftists are destroying the very customs and tradi-
tions whose loss will come back to haunt them when the Democrats
lose the Congress in November.
Crybaby tantrums won’t win over the public. These nonstop,
puerile meltdowns have turned off most Americans who tire of whiny
narcissistic hypocrites.
***Victor Davis Hanson***
Mr. Hanson has so clearly stated the difference between an evil
mob of unruly, amoral, and unethical whiners while the true patriots
who strive to adhere to the rule of law, stand by and await their
their once again opportunity to clean up the mess the Democrats
always seem to leave behind.
Pray that God gives another chance to fix this once great nation.
Conservatively,
John
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