[RedState] I have often made a distinction between liberals and leftists, and will continue to do so.
One of my most pleasant conversations at the CNN event in Washington was with a former Biden official (lower-level) who was your old-style liberal. He wasn't angry. He didn't hate conservatives--a rarity these days, I admit--and as far as I could tell, was just as committed to making our country and the world better for everyone as I am.
We disagreed on means, not ends. I genuinely like talking to such people, and know that there are many more of them than you would think if you spend too much time on social media or paying attention to politics.
Leftists, though, make no bones about hating people with whom they have disagreements. It is their thing, going back to the birth of the modern Left in the French Revolution. Leftism traipses from one bloody revolution to the next, reveling in the bloodshed as a cleansing ritual.
Symbolic of this bloodlust, the Left valorizes men like Che Guevara, who oversaw a concentration camp and the liquidation of people he considered enemies of the Revolution. |