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The left’s double standard is increasingly evident these days, and no matter how often it gets remarked upon, the notice and ridicule never stops leftists from indulging in it. For years, leftists energetically pursued lawfare against Donald Trump and his supporters, trashing statutes of limitations, creating special rules ex post facto, stretching misdemeanors into felonies, and fabricating evidence outright in an all-out effort to destroy him politically and personally, but when Trump strikes back with entirely lawful and justified investigations and prosecutions of some of the lower level perpetrators of these crimes, he is a fascist dictator in the making, weaponizing the justice system against his political opponents.
This is not dissimilar from the left’s taste for hateful rhetoric and even increasingly open incitement to violence, contrasted with its outrage and indignation over even the mildest dissenting voice, which supposedly makes leftists, particularly on college and university campuses, feel as if they are in danger, or at least claim to do so. PJ Media Managing Editor Chris Queen reported that at Davidson College in North Carolina, students have recently “faced harassment and threats from Davidson for expressing the truth that there are only two genders and one cannot change one’s biology.” Leftist students also freely distributed on campus a pamphlet entitled ““International Intifada: An urgent call to participate in the colonizer’s execution.”
However, when two patriotic Davidson students dared to try to distribute my pamphlet “The Five Myths About Israel Perpetrated by the Pro-Hamas Left,” Davidson officials stopped them, saying that the presence of my pamphlet on campus made them feel “unsafe.” Sure it did. Leftists proffer this flaming hypocrisy without blinking an eye, and doesn’t budge an inch when any patriot dares to take notice.
This eye-popping lack of self-awareness goes back, like so much of contemporary leftist practice, to the founder of Soviet Russia, V. I. Lenin himself. When the Bolsheviks took power in Russia, Lenin instituted a reign of terror, as far-left regimes always do, in order to terrorize the populace into submission. When critics accused him of engaging in wanton murder and leaving behind all standards of morality, Lenin readily agreed, explaining that when his minions murdered people, it was good and right, because they were the forces of justice:
For us there does not, and cannot, exist the old system of morality and “humanity” invented by the bourgeoisie for the purpose of oppressing and exploiting the “lower classes”. Our morality is new, our humanity is absolute, for it rests on the ideal of destroying all oppression and coercion. To us, all is permitted, for we are the first in the world to raise the sword not in the name of enslaving or oppressing anyone, but in the name of freeing all from bondage…Blood? Let there be blood, if it alone can turn the grey-white-and-black banner of the old piratical world to a scarlet hue, for only the complete and final death of that old world will save us from the return of the old jackals.’
Lenin’s right-hand man, Leon Trotsky, put it more chillingly and succinctly: “We must put an end once and for all to the papist-Quaker babble about the sanctity of human life.” Leftists had been working to do just that since the time of the French Revolution, and continued to do so long after Stalin’s axe blade showed Trotsky that his own life wasn’t sacred, either.
The leftist idea was and is simply that engaging in the most appallingly hateful and inciteful rhetoric, resorting to cold-blooded violence against its foes, and celebrating the violence that inevitably follows, is perfectly justified, because once the left is safely ensconced in power, a truly just society will emerge. The worker’s paradise will flower upon the soil that has been fertilized with the blood of the bourgeoisie.
This is completely different, you see, from authorities arresting leftist rioters, or killing terrorists. That is violence in the service of ends that the left considers unjust, and so leftists don’t hesitate to raise their voices loudly against patriots who are trying to preserve free societies against socialism, globalism, and authoritarianism.
The solipsism and myopia of this is breathtaking. One could only possibly accept it after first accepting that leftists are the arbiters of moral probity and rectitude. Just look at the Soviet Union, Communist China, and the rest. The piles of skulls are testimony to leftist righteousness.
