The modern left went off the rails, blinded by power and money. By Stu Cvrk at American Greatness.
An interesting article outlines how the left has systematically torn up the political principles of the US and the West, in Obama’s attempt to “fundamentally transform” America. While each item is perhaps not damning in itself, the totality reveals a dark, unprincipled quest for power and money.
Some excerpts:
“Equity means equal outcomes for everyone—except admission to their children’s schools.” The loudest advocates for dismantling merit-based admissions send their own children to highly selective private schools and elite magnet or selective-enrollment programs, insulating their families from the policies they impose on everyone else.
“Defund the police—but keep my security detail.” …
“Follow the science—unless the science is inconvenient.” The same coalition that demands deference to scientific consensus on the climate refuses to acknowledge biological sex in medicine, opposes nuclear energy despite its carbon-free output, and spent two years dismissing the lab-leak hypothesis as racist misinformation — a conclusion most scientists now consider credible.
“Borders are immoral—except around Martha’s Vineyard.” …
“We must protect democracy — by criminalizing the opposition candidate.” …
“Billionaires are the enemy—now let’s hear from our billionaire donors.” … The Left’s billionaires are enlightened; the Right’s are existential threats. …
“No one is above the law—unless you are in our administration.” Selective prosecution is the theme: a two-tiered justice system that indicts a former president on faux documents charges while closing a parallel case against a sitting president’s son and declining to charge a sitting president himself, with standards applied by prosecutors who publicly donate to the Democrat Party, is not equal justice — it is the law as a partisan instrument.
“It’s not about black and white; it’s about green.” The Left frames every policy dispute as a racial justice issue, but the real engine driving progressive politics is money — donor class cash, NGO funding, and government grants that keep the activist machinery running. Race is the Democrats’ go-to rhetorical weapon; wealth redistribution and institutional power are the actual prize.
“Hierarchy justifies hypocrisy.” Victor Davis Hanson’s razor: the progressive elite exempts itself from every rule it imposes on others. Private jets for climate summits. Gated communities for open-borders advocates. Elite private schools for the champions of public education. The higher one sits in the leftist hierarchy, the more license one has to ignore the ideology. …
“34 percent of registered Democrats believed the assassination attempt was staged.” Offered as evidence that media-driven conspiratorial thinking is not a monopoly of the Right. If roughly a third of one party’s own voters distrust a documented, publicly witnessed event, it suggests the Left’s media ecosystem has become as insular and reality-distorting as anything it accuses conservatives of inhabiting.
“A failure to deal with multiculturalism ideology is the issue more important than all others.” From this viewpoint, identity-group multiculturalism — the ideological version, not the simple demographic fact of diversity — is the solvent dissolving the common civic identity that the Constitution requires. When group grievance, as relentlessly pushed by the Democrat Party, supersedes individual rights and shared national purpose, constitutional self-governance becomes ungovernable.
“The silo effect of multiculturalism has driven wedges between people who should be accepting our Constitution.” The argument is that multicultural identity politics deliberately fragments the citizenry into competing, mutually suspicious tribes, each demanding group-specific rights rather than equal individual rights under a shared constitutional framework. …
“Leniency to the guilty leads to cruelty to the innocent.” The policy logic of criminal justice conservatism in a single sentence. Democrat policies of catch-and-release prosecution, bail reform, and prosecutorial nullification do not reduce suffering — they transfer it from the criminal class to law-abiding citizens, who disproportionately tend to be lower-income and minority residents of high-crime neighborhoods: the very people the lenient policies claim to protect.
Conclusions:
The theme connecting every item on this list is the abuse of asymmetry.
- Asymmetric justice — one standard for allies, another for enemies.
- Asymmetric speech — protected protest for the favored, prosecutable rhetoric for the disfavored.
- Asymmetric sacrifice — open borders for the interior, bused migrants away from the coastline.
- Asymmetric science — settled consensus when it empowers, negotiable data when it inconveniences.
This is not the behavior of a movement confident in the justice of its principles. It is the behavior of a movement that has quietly stopped believing its own arguments and is now operating purely on the logic of power retention. This is the essence of fascism!
The constitutional conservative response to all of this is not, at its core, a counter-ideology.
- It is a demand for consistency.
- Apply the law equally.
- Subject every truth claim — including scientific ones — to open scrutiny and democratic deliberation.
- Judge citizens as individuals, not as representatives of racial or ethnic collectives.
- Enforce the borders that give national sovereignty its meaning.
- Hold the powerful to the same standards as the powerless.
These are not radical propositions. They are the operating premises of the American Founding, tested across two and a half centuries and still the most durable framework for self-governance ever devised.