That implies some kind of moral equivalency... as if because they believe something they are in some way enobled. I reject this out of hand.
The Left was, is and will always be motivated by the lust for power - power to control people's lives because they (the Left) are so superior to the rest of us. Raimondo and his repulsive ilk have joined those ranks. His stuff reeks of a high-handed elitist - not just passion, but an almost ridiculous elevation of his wisdom, intellect, morality, you-name-it above that of the "commoners".
I do not believe for a moment that Raimondo actually cares about those he supposedly champions in his Quixotic quest for all things anti-war. What he cares about is his own misguided, self-professed rightness. Like the Left, he wants to win the argument regardless of the unintended results.
Hardly. It implies an equivalency between the MOTIVES, but not the values.
as if because they believe something they are in some way enobled.
Not "ennobled." Rigid. Unbending. Ideological. The same way many right-wing idealogues tend to be.
I reject this out of hand.
As is your right. But that in no way diminishes the validity of the argument.
The Left was, is and will always be motivated by ...
Raimondo tends to be libertarian to the extreme, but not necessarily left-wing. In any case, your ascribing certain motives does not make much of an argument. Whatever their motives, the Left has intransigent, principled (albeit deluded) people in its ranks. That they have chosen to invest their energies in such a reprehensible ideal does not diminish either their enthusiasm or their integrity. It DOES call into question their sanity, but not their commitment.