Leftism
December 3, 2024 — John Hinderaker
Traditionally, conservatives have seen liberals as misguided and ill-informed, but well-meaning. Was that accurate at one time? I don’t know. Maybe. But it certainly isn’t true now. A large proportion of liberals–whether a majority, I have no idea–are downright evil. And whatever those statistics might be, it is evil, not ignorance, that mainly drives leftism in the U.S. and around the world. A case in point comes from my own
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December 3, 2024 — John Hinderaker
My organization, Center of the American Experiment, has been battling for four years to keep leftist indoctrination out of Minnesota’s public schools. A climax of sorts came in 2023, when Minnesota’s Democrat-controlled legislature mandated that Ethnic Studies be incorporated into every K-12 class. So, welcome to the world of Ethnic Algebra. Governor Tim Walz’s Department of Education appointed a committee to implement that legislation by drawing up Guidelines to be
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November 28, 2024 — Steven Hayward
On this Thanksgiving Day, spare a thankful thought for the irrepressible hatred of the left, as it ratifies the ancient Greek proverb (its exact origin is disputed), “Those whom the gods would destroy they first make mad.” While the left is suffering a case of shell shock and PTSD from Trump’s smashing victory, don’t be fooled. They will regroup, and return filled with more hatred and loathing than before for
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November 23, 2024 — John Hinderaker
Climate conferences are mostly dreary boondoggles, but every now and then things come into focus. Like when they talk about money. The “green” scam is all about the money. Global warming warriors are trying to pull off the greatest transfer of wealth since the Industrial Revolution. Mostly is this is from industry to industry, but it also applies from country to country. Thus, the “developing” countries try to shame the
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November 19, 2024 — John Hinderaker
France, like a number of other Western European countries, is governed by a coalition of establishmentarians who are appalled at the popularity of the “far right,” a term that has no significance other than to denote skepticism of mass third-world immigration. For obvious reasons, that skepticism is ever more widely shared, on account of experience, and “far right” parties therefore pose an increasing danger to the European status quo. France
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November 8, 2024 — John Hinderaker
Will the Democrats ever again win a presidential election? This tweet and map are fascinating, based on projections regarding the 2030 census: The 2030 census is going to be a bloodbath for Democrats. This map, without Nevada and the "Blue Wall" would go from 263 to 276 electoral votes. pic.twitter.com/TyJrBsjpDo — Daniel Di Martino 🇺🇸🇻🇪 (@DanielDiMartino) November 9, 2024 A Republican majority without Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin or Nevada. It is
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November 3, 2024 — John Hinderaker
The Democrats are trying to run on the issue of “democracy,” which polls tell us ranks around fourth in voters’ rating of issues. It has never been clear what Democrats mean by claiming that Our Democracy™️ is on the ballot. Ironically, though, in a very real sense it is. I have been in Europe for the last couple of weeks. A few days ago, I had a conversation with a
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October 24, 2024 — John Hinderaker
So Kamala Harris’s last, desperate ploy is to go full Hitler. There is nothing surprising about this; as we and many others have said, repeatedly, the Democrats have called every prominent Republican since Thomas Dewey another Hitler. Abraham Lincoln obviously predated Adolf, but the Democrats’ attacks on him as a would-be dictator, a threat to the fundamental human right to own slaves, was a precursor. Comparing any American political faction
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October 21, 2024 — John Hinderaker
If you wonder how so many people can be blissfully ignorant of what you and I consider basic factual realities, the answer likely is that they are getting their information, not just from sources that disagree with us, but that seem to be living in another galaxy. Take, for example, the stories highlighted in today’s New York Times, as they appear in that paper’s morning email: So much error packed
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October 15, 2024 — John Hinderaker
Earlier today, Kamala Harris tweeted this: Black men deserve a president who cares about making their lives better. pic.twitter.com/cUCdsvvYZ6 — Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) October 15, 2024 This agenda, intended to salvage Harris’s collapsing status with black men, would be outrageous even if it were not illegal. It is one of the topics that we discussed today on the American Experiment podcast. It was a fun installment, as it was hosted
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October 10, 2024 — John Hinderaker
One of the strangest aspects of this year’s campaign season was the Democrats’ effort to brand JD Vance as “weird”–an effort led by none other than Tim Walz! Vance’s brilliant debate performance put that one to rest, once and for all. But that doesn’t mean there is no weirdness in contemporary politics. Check out this very short video, in which Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer feeds a left-wing “influencer” a Dorito,
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October 8, 2024 — John Hinderaker
Joe Biden says that Donald Trump’s “very dangerous” rhetoric is likely to lead to political violence. What is he talking about? I don’t know. Whatever Trump says about the Democrats, they say much worse about him. And of course it is Trump, not Kamala Harris, who has been the subject of two assassination attempts. Democrats like to warn against political violence, but when it happens, it nearly always is committed
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October 7, 2024 — John Hinderaker
Around the world, the ignorant and the downright evil turned out today to celebrate the anniversary of Hamas’s October 7 massacres. Across more than 80 U.S. cities, protesters gathered for demonstrations that were largely characterized by explicit support for terror, including the October 7 attack itself. *** Beginning on Monday, October 7, National Students for Justice in Palestine (NSJP) is organizing a “Week of Rage” related to the anniversary, with
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September 29, 2024 — John Hinderaker
Some years ago, Ta-Nehisi Coates was the hottest thing on the Left, viewed as an intellectual of world-historical importance. Scott performed the excruciating task of reading Coates’s Between the World and Me. It won the National Book Award for nonfiction, but Scott called it the worst book he had ever read. Coates made a lot of money from his racist grifting, and then disappeared from sight. He hasn’t been heard
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September 28, 2024 — Steven Hayward
I’m currently working on a long series of articles I’ll be posting on my new “Political Questions” Substack on the topic of “leftist fragility,” but there’s an example of what I’m after yesterday that is perfect for our short form here. The editor of Mother Jones magazine, Clara Jeffery, was offended and alarmed when an Alaska Airlines flight attendant triggered her with visions of fascism and the whole Handmaid’s Tale
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September 20, 2024 — John Hinderaker
Rich Lowry, Editor of National Review, was on Megyn Kelly’s podcast a couple of days ago. He started to say something about Haitian migrants, and stumbled over the word “migrant,” saying “mig” like you do with immigrant, then corrected himself. Leftists, starting with Media Matters, made the absurd claim that Lowry had said the “N-word,” which he obviously did not. The demand for racism vastly exceeds the supply, which is
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September 19, 2024 — John Hinderaker
France has a long history of well-heeled elites telling other Frenchmen how to live. These days, those prescriptions mostly have to do with the environment. Or that is the claim, anyway. So the Mayor of Paris wants municipal employees not to eat so much meat: The vegetarian meals given to Paris’s 51,000 council workers are being touted as a victory in the fight against global warming. Yet many of the
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