The New Left is coercive, corrosive, and anti-democratic. By Armstong Williams in The Epoch Times.
The real danger lies in the growing normalization of disorder, intimidation and lawlessness — often wrapped in the language of “justice” but driven by something far less noble.
Over the past several years, protests have increasingly crossed the line from expression to coercion — blocking streets, vandalizing property, intimidating citizens, and provoking confrontations with law enforcement.
Too often, progressive leaders and activists refuse to draw a firm line between protest and chaos. Silence becomes endorsement. Justification becomes fuel. The result is a culture where disruption is valorized, and restraint is treated as complicity.
When rare and tragic mistakes occur in law enforcement, they are not treated as moments for sober examination or reform. They are instantly weaponized. Context is stripped away. Facts are subordinated to narrative. Grief is transformed into political leverage. The objective is not justice but rather ignition sparking unrest, delegitimizing institutions, and exhausting public trust. …
Their media misinforms, to fan the flames:
Legacy media outlets, once entrusted with informing the public, too often act as accelerants rather than moderators. Complex incidents are flattened into morality plays. Headlines are written to inflame rather than inform. Progressive narratives are echoed uncritically, while inconvenient facts are buried below the fold or ignored entirely. The result is a distorted public understanding that erodes confidence in law enforcement and emboldens those who seek confrontation.
Social media makes it worse. Algorithms do not reward nuance; they reward rage. Viral clips divorced from context travel faster than corrections ever could. Activists understand this and exploit it, baiting confrontations designed to produce images that inflame rather than illuminate. …
Who won the last US election? Did not Trump clearly say he would enforce migration laws? He has a mandate from the people.
The deployment of ICE agents under President Donald Trump has become a new rallying cry — not because it represents an unprecedented threat but because it offers another opportunity to provoke confrontation and amplify grievance. This is not about policy disagreement. It is about power: who controls the narrative, who dictates the terms of public debate, and who benefits when enforcement collapses under pressure. …
A philosophy that treats enforcement itself as oppression, that excuses disorder as activism, and that relies on media distortion to advance its aims is not reformist — it is corrosive. A society cannot function when laws are optional, authority is demonized, and chaos is reframed as conscience.
Who rules, the people or the progressive mob?