Why the Amerikan Left Has Gone Ballistic
Their radical trajectory is nothing new, we've been fighting it for over 200 years already.
Their radical trajectory is nothing new, we’ve been fighting it for over 200 years already.
Bottom Line Up Front: Their core beliefs are fundamentally hostile to the Classical Liberal order that shaped Western society, an order born of Christian moral and cultural roots. Finally, they are actually being challenged and pushed back in serious, real ways, which is an existential struggle for their movement.
The modern Left’s ideology is essentially a fork from the Enlightenment’s Classical Liberalism — a deviation that first erupted in the French Revolution. Look closely at the core ideas of the French Revolution and you’ll see the same ideological DNA driving today’s Left:
Radical egalitarianism
Class conflict (recast today as identity conflict, since the Left now represents the elite)
Hostility toward Christianity
Rejection of the Classical Liberal order as insufficient for “true justice”
Justification of violence for moral ends
Defining all opposition as hateful or oppressive
The lineage is clear. The Left — through all its permutations of socialism, communism, Marxism, and progressivism — hasn’t fundamentally changed since. The Jacobins would recognize the tone of today’s Dem/Left instantly.
What’s been added since then is…