The Noble Savage.
They regard them in the same way they regard Polar Bears. As a tool, or a totem.
When they want to be pious and pull at the emotions of a species that would make people do anything to stop their extinction as a result of the carbon emissions of evil man...it is The Polar Bear.
When they want to virtue signal and force Americans to be ashamed of their past, their smallpox encrusted blankets, their lying treaties, and their genocide...it is the Native American.
Don't get me wrong-I greatly admire many Native American tribes, but the difference is: I don't lionize them and look at them through rose colored glasses the way the Left does. I view them as I view most cultures and people: to be admired in some ways, and decried in others. I can admire them without accepting as a good their bad points.
WIth Native Americans, most tribes overall I find more positive than negative. The Aztecs, however...something was indeed wrong with them.
You get the idea. This why I like to poke the Leftists about Native Americans who routinely preyed on neighbors and hauled them off as slaves or something to be sold.
Hell, Leftists have so little interest in history and the useful knowledge that can be freely obtained from it, that they view the Aztecs, Incas, Mayans, Musims, and Pharaohs with the same benevolent and ignorant prism through they view brutal pirates as lovable and jolly with an unbreakable Thieves Honor and merciful streak.
They never take the time to learn of pine tar encrusted bodies in iron cages hung at the entrances of major ports all over the world, and wonder for a split second why so many places all over the known earth treated pirates like that.
Leftists are sick.
To that end, on a slightly different path, Bill Whittle has a great video he put out titled: "What Do You Fear?" which talks about a recent survey taken by one of the Alphabet Networks that asked Democrats what the top 12 things they were fearful of, and asked Republicans the same question.
And here are the top 12 fears of Trump supporters:
And here are the top 12 fears of Biden supporters:
It is frightening. People on the Left are sick and deranged. Bill Whittle explains it all in this excellent video.