THE PARTY OF EXTREMISM

THE PARTY OF EXTREMISM

Along the way I realized what they were really doing was telling on themselves.

Starting somewhere around 2017 I noticed a trend.

As we all know, after Trump won, there was mass hysteria. The increasingly woke left had lost. It defied their imaginations, and so their imaginations got to work. It couldn’t have been that they weren’t popular, it had to be something else.

Oh I know, they thought, everyone who isn’t me is an extremist.

Over the course of about ten years, the media’s usage of “right wing extremism” and “far right” and “radical right” exploded. Just to give you an indication, The Guardian has used the term “far right” in 6,389 articles versus “far left” appearing in just 376.

The trend was so pronounced that Manhattan Institute bubbas did a study they published in The American Conservative.

Here’s a series of graphs from the article.

But what is it exactly they’re calling extreme?

You, Dear Reader. And me. JD Vance. People who think borders are real. People who think gender is real. Is God real to you? You’re an extremist.

Let’s go further, should people be punished for committing crimes? Yes? You’re an extremist!

Is it okay for a man to get in a boxing ring and beat the pulp out of women? First of all, they say, he’s not a man. Oh he is actually? Oops. If the answer is still ‘no,’ guess what: Extremist.

If you won’t refer to an El Salvadorian national who more than likely trafficked human beings for MS-13 as a “Maryland Man” and instead call him an illegal or a “member of MS13” — which are both accurate and literal — then guess what? Yup, extremist again.

You get the point. As the most powerful left wing institutions competed with themselves to get ever further to the left, alienating normal people and losing elections in the process, everyone who was not in their real estate became an extremist to them.

The reality is the reverse though. They’re simply telling on themselves.

Recent months have brought things into sharp focus. Radical student bodies stormed university buildings in support of Hamas, a literal terrorist group. Wine moms and white collar elites burned and defaced Teslas. An illegal alien set a group of elderly people on fire while shrieking “free Palestine.”

This is the contemporary left.

And it isn’t just acts of violence, terrorism, looting, and rioting that they’ve attempted to normalize.

Virtually the entirety of the political left’s intellectual platform is extremist. Castrating mentally unwell children. Legalizing crime. Defending terrorist groups. Policing speech instead of streets. Attacking Western values. Dismantling the family structure. Teaching small children about marginal sexual experiences. Assigning value to people based primarily on their race or, even more perverse, sexual preferences.

They baked a hierarchy of racial and immutable traits into everything they do, from college admissions to government benefits to ads for hardware stores. There are awards in this hyper-liberal bizarro world that you cannot win without publicly reporting the racial makeup of your staff.

Almost nothing that normal people find good in this world is immune.

High School sports, in some ways the last bastion of local community in America, has become an intellectual battleground for a question whose answer is obvious to anyone: Should men physically beat women?

It’s not even a question … unless you work at The New York Times. In that case, it’s worthy of debate.

As the old adage goes in politics, “whatever they accuse you of doing, they’re actually doing.”

AUTHOR

Geoffrey Ingersoll

Editor at Large.

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