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The Roots of Leftist Rage
American Greatness ^ | 10 Jul, 2025 | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 07/10/2025 6:01:01 AM PDT by MtnClimber

Unmoored from power and panicked by Trump’s momentum, the left lashes out—from Congress to campus to the street—with rage born of fear and fading influence.

Across the political left, from orthodox Democrats to Antifa in the streets, the opposition to Trump has lost its collective mind.

The House minority leader and now self-styled tough guy, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, poses with a baseball bat to show how dangerous he is in opposing Trump’s budget bill.

Jeffries harangued Congress for eight hours; Sen. Cory Booker went on for 25—both to no effect.

Bernie Sanders and AOC hit the rally trail in private jets to rail about oligarchs, omitting that the ultra-rich are not only mostly leftists but also the funders of the Democratic Party.

Sometimes the Democrats in Congress make bizarre videos, featuring profanity like f**k or s**t. On other occasions, they scream and interrupt Congress.

Some representatives now confess that they’re being pressured by their constituents to take a bullet for the cause.

The racialist Rep. Jasmine Crockett—sometimes playing the prep-school prima donna, sometimes modulating her accent to pass as the authentic inner-city activist—gains headlines for monotonously ranting about old white men.

On left-wing social media, the assassin Luigi Mangione remains a heartthrob for murdering a health-care executive, replacing the Tsarnaev brothers as the hot new left-wing killer.

He, too, might soon end up with a cover photo on Rolling Stone.

The left-wing internet mob grotesquely claims that children lost to the recent flash flood in Texas deserved their fate.

They even advance three sick reasons for their ghoulishness. Texas Christians supported the MAGA agenda and thus met a just fate. Or, as red-state Texans, they were deservedly collateral damage to DOGE’s bureaucratic reductions. Or, as climate denialists would say, the flash flood took righteous revenge on children

(Excerpt) Read more at amgreatness.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: 2yearoldswithguns; domesticenemies; mentalillness; vdh; victordavishanson

1 posted on 07/10/2025 6:01:01 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: texas booster

VDH ping


2 posted on 07/10/2025 6:01:31 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

The Root of Leftist Rage.

Is

Satan


3 posted on 07/10/2025 6:05:07 AM PDT by cuz1961 ( )
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To: MtnClimber

The GOP in the House and Senate seem completely uninterested in seizing the moment.


4 posted on 07/10/2025 6:07:19 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy
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To: MtnClimber

“[Luigi Mangione] might soon end up with a cover photo on Rolling Stone.”

With Sean Penn shaking his hand? *SMIRK*

Listen, I know Socialist Democrats in Real Life. They’re all mentally unstable to begin with. They seek their own level, much like water.


5 posted on 07/10/2025 6:13:43 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have, 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set.)
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To: MtnClimber

They were certain they had gotten rid of Trump and their worst nightmare came true.


6 posted on 07/10/2025 6:16:15 AM PDT by AppyPappy (If Hitler were alive today and criticized Trump, would he still be Hitler?)
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To: 5th MEB; 6ppc; agondonter; Alberta's Child; AndyJackson; Aria; artichokegrower; ...
Ping! Out to the Victor Davis Hanson list

Tariffs did not cause inflation. Deportations created more, not fewer, American jobs. Biological men will likely no longer be winning women’s athletic contests.

Another look at American politics by the Professor hisself, Prof Hanson.

FR Index of his articles: Victor Davis Hanson on FR

Town Hall: Victor Davis Hanson on Town Hall

American Greatness: Victor Davis Hanson on American Greatness

His website: Victor Davis Hanson

Please let me know if you want on or off this new VDH ping list.

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7 posted on 07/10/2025 6:24:43 AM PDT by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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To: MtnClimber

Poppycock. The roots of leftist rage is in the coupling of unproductive sexual license with positive reinforcement conditioning, a positive feedback loop of empty gratification.


8 posted on 07/10/2025 6:26:57 AM PDT by Carry_Okie (The tree of liberty needs a rope.)
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To: Carry_Okie
The spiritual root of leftist rage is Satan. The non-spiritual root of leftist rage is money they were siphoning from govt (i.e. USAID). Sure, they use sexual license as a means to push their message onto their cult followers who'll obey anything that seems to grant them any emotional stimuli. But in the end, the leftist masters are doing it for the money.

All while the leftist masters themselves are being manipulated by Satan. I'm convinced that's why their tactics are even getting into hating on "Christian nationalists".

9 posted on 07/10/2025 6:41:47 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: MtnClimber

Thanks Obama. The left blindly followed him over the cliff.


10 posted on 07/10/2025 6:45:42 AM PDT by DeplorablePaul
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To: cuz1961
The Root of Leftist Rage. . . Is . . . Satan
Thank you for saying what the author (despite his implied promise) failed to say. It dwells on modern examples of rage, but fails to explore the roots of it.
11 posted on 07/10/2025 7:20:12 AM PDT by EliRoom8
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To: MtnClimber

“Add it all up, and the impotent left in all its orthodox and street manifestations has become unhinged.

And why not when it rightly fears that not just its power, but the very sources of its power, are in mortal danger”?

That’s a good summary.

The Left must be dealt with as a rattlesnake on the front porch would be.


12 posted on 07/10/2025 7:20:48 AM PDT by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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To: Tell It Right

“The love of money is a root of all kinds of evil.”
(1 Timothy 6:10)


13 posted on 07/10/2025 8:00:12 AM PDT by milagro (There is no peace in appeasement! ThereonMaube)
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