Leftism
January 4, 2025 — John Hinderaker
We can’t be sure, since his alleged presidency still has 16 days to go. But Biden’s awarding the Presidential Medal of Freedom to George Soros is likely to stand as his final insult to America. In honoring Soros, Biden said: “Born into a Jewish family in Hungary, George Soros escaped Nazi occupation to build a life of freedom for himself and countless others around the world,” reads the Soros citation.
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December 24, 2024 — John Hinderaker
Yesterday Luigi Mangione was arraigned in Manhattan. An adoring throng greeted Mangione outside the courtroom, and “[a]t least two dozen women packed the courtroom for the twisted heartthrob.” Mangione appeared to enjoy the proceedings: A grinning Luigi Mangione appeared to yuk it up in a Manhattan courtroom Monday as he pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. What to make of Mangione’s popularity with a not-insignificant
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December 17, 2024 — John Hinderaker
Many have been shocked by expressions of approval for Luigi Mangione’s murder of Brian Thompson on social media, in a few instances by journalists and other relatively prominent Democrats. But it turns out that those seeming outliers were speaking for many Americans. An Emerson College poll finds that Mangione’s murder is broadly supported by young people: A poll found 41 percent of adults under 30 consider the killing of UnitedHealthcare
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December 16, 2024 — John Hinderaker
Paul Krugman is retiring as a New York Times columnist. His final column is here, but I haven’t found a way to get past the Times paywall. That’s OK: Krugman’s content is certainly not worth paying for. This is how much I can extract from the Times: What strikes me, looking back, is how optimistic many people, both here and in much of the Western world, were back then [when
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December 11, 2024 — John Hinderaker
Luigi Mangione is obviously guilty of murdering Brian Thompson, so, as his lawyers search for a defense, insanity is sure to come to mind. Insanity defenses rarely succeed, perhaps because anyone who commits a murder for which he is almost certain to be caught and punished is, in the popular sense of the word, “crazy.” The legal definition of insanity is necessarily much higher. There may be another problem with
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December 10, 2024 — John Hinderaker
That is what Luigi Mangione accused someone–law enforcement, I take it–of doing, as he yelled to reporters while police officers escorted him into a Pennsylvania courthouse: Mangione shouts, “This is extremely unjust and an insult to the intelligence of the American people, and lived experience.” Unjust that he has been arrested for a murder that he obviously committed? Expecting justice to be done insults the intelligence of Americans, or maybe
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December 9, 2024 — John Hinderaker
Luigi Mangione, a 26-year-old graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, has been arrested for the murder of Brian Thompson. Based on news accounts, there doesn’t seem to be any doubt that they got the right man. Mangione was recognized by a patron or employee in a McDonald’s restaurant in Altoona, Pennsylvania, who dialed 911. The Daily Mail describes the alleged murderer: Mangione is originally from Towson, Maryland, and is an
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December 9, 2024 — John Hinderaker
The murder of United Health CEO Brian Thompson shocked most of us, but some have gone so far as to applaud it. The Wall Street Journal headlines: “Manhunt for UnitedHealthcare CEO Killer Meets Unexpected Obstacle: Sympathy for the Gunman.” As they search for the man who assassinated a top health-insurance executive in Midtown Manhattan last week, authorities are contending with an unanticipated challenge: an outpouring of popular sympathy for the
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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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