understanding the left

No one has yet decided on the name for the force that has come to unseat liberalism. Some say it’s “Social Justice.” The author Rod Dreher has called it “therapeutic totalitarianism.” The writer Wesley Yang refers to it as “the successor ideology”—as in, the successor to liberalism.

At some point, it will have a formal name, one that properly descri... See more

my grand theory of politics is that leftists are those who care about justice, and rightists are those who care about order. If you care equally about both, you're a moderate. If you care about one to the exclusion of the other, then you're likely a radical.

So when their chosen heroes — the freedom fighters in whom they invested so much moral cachet — showed up at a concert and started beheading raver kids and Asian workers and abducting grandmas and God knows what else, what were Western leftists supposed to do? In situations like that there are really only two things you can do, without switching yo... See more

If you rule out all dissent on the basis that it's hate speech and misinformation, you will detach entirely from reality.

While Jews are a small population, they are 10% of billionaires, and 25% of democratic party donor capital, so they materially influence leftist institutions.