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Leftism is the ideology of revenge.

That may sound hyperbolic—but it's true.

The Left believes that the West has to be punished for its historic sins. That's the animating principle behind their policy agenda.

Don't believe us? We'll show you. 🧵 (1/15)

In 1927, the economist Ludwig Von Mises coined the term the "Fourier complex": A "pathological mental attitude" in which "one so hates somebody for his more favorable circumstances that one is prepared to bear heavy losses if only the hated one might also come to harm." (2/15)

This is the impulse lurking beneath the surface of the entire left-wing program today. All the nice-sounding buzzwords—"justice," "human rights," "equality," etc—are just rhetorical window dressing.

The Left's fundamental conviction is that the West deserves to suffer. (3/15)

One of the most obvious recent examples of this is the rise of "land acknowledgments."

On college campuses and in other left-wing spaces across the country, it's now fashionable to begin events by acknowledging that "we're standing on stolen land." (4/15)

The ritual is a symbolic form of delegitimization, aimed at undermining the idea that the United States has a right to exist.

That premise—that we are committing a moral crime simply by existing—underpins the way the Left thinks.

The clearest example is immigration. (5/15)

The conviction that America has no moral right to enforce its borders is evident in the Left's bumper-sticker slogans:

"No one is illegal on stolen land"
"We didn’t cross the border, the border crossed us"
"European settlers were the first illegal immigrants"

And so on. (6/15)

But it's not just activist sloganeering—it's a ubiquitous feature of left-wing discourse. They see immigration as an act of cosmic justice—against America, on behalf of the Third World.

They're open about it. This is from a 2017 essay on immigration in Foreign Affairs: (7/15)

Or here: When the left-wing activist-intellectual Harsha Walia—who founded the "migrant justice" group No One Is Illegal—told the Guardian that "migration is a form of reparations."

It's not that it's good for America; it's that it's a payment we owe to the Global South. (8/15)

Reparations itself is one of the most brazen expressions of this phenomenon. Sure, they want the money. But really, it's about punishing America. That's what "justice" means, to them.

Ta Nehisi-Coates said as much in his famous 2014 essay, "The Case for Reparations." (9/15)

The same is true of the war on American heritage: The 1619 Project seeks to replace 1776. "Indigenous People’s Day" seeks to replace Columbus Day. Juneteenth seeks to replace July 4.

It's the "vengeance of the oppressed"—replacing our symbols and traditions with theirs. (10/15)

Again, you don't have to look very far to hear them say this.

"The statue represents patriarchy, oppression and divisiveness," the mayor of Columbus, Ohio said when his city took down their Columbus statue in 2020. "We will no longer live in the shadow of our ugly past." (11/15)

Even the war on the police is rooted in the desire for retribution.

In 2020, Rep. James Clyburn claimed that "policing itself started out as slave patrols."

Of course, that wasn't true. But it didn't matter. Police are a relic of our past—a past that must be eradicated. (12/15)

In fact, the entire discussion of crime is connected to this attitude.

In 2020, San Francisco passed the CAREN Act, which made it a hate crime to make a "racially motivated" 911 call against a black person "without reasonable suspicion of a crime."

"Karen." Get it? (13/15)

The way the Left talks about crime, policing, and prisons is underpinned by the idea that concerns about crime are a function of "whiteness"—and thus illegitimate.

Of course, that's absurd. But defunding the police and emptying the prisons are another form of revenge. (14/15)

So much of the Left's agenda is essentially a settling of the civilizational score—a way of exacting revenge against the West, on behalf of the groups it has ostensibly "oppressed."

That's what it boils down to. Everything ends up being a form of reparations. (15/15)

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