I've always had a morbid fascination with the cruelty of leftism because it always comes with what its adherents see as a moral justification. The left can denounce everything someone does as a heinous social sin of the worst kind, worthy of social isolation and exclusion, and then, in the same breath, do or say the exact same thing. 

As I've said for years, the unofficial motto of the left is, and always will be, "it's okay when we do it." 

To highlight what I mean, we can look to the recent article at The Federalist by Molly Hemingway, who wrote on the hatred of the left displayed for anyone who doesn't think like them by using Donald Trump's VP pick, JD Vance, as an example. Vance moved his family to Alexandria, Virginia, into the Del Ray neighborhood in 2022 after he was elected. It's a charming place, as Hemingway puts it, but when you peel back the veil even a little bit, you'll notice that it's filled with leftists who display their intolerance and lack of compassion or respect openly. 

They make it clear on social media pages on Facebook that they actually like harassing the Vance family by putting things like signs made of yarn that promote various leftist causes. They look to do for Vance what they did for Chad Wolf, the acting homeland security secretary during the Trump administration, which they said was a “big and disruptive” protest in front of his home. They justify this by claiming that the neighborhood is their neighborhood, a leftist territory. 

Then, of course, there was the protest in the park after it was closed by the Secret Service. In response, the leftists in the neighborhood organized a protest where the Vance home was displayed on social media: 

Neighbor Becky Hammer, a left-wing environmental attorney and local official, organized and publicized a political protest at the park last Saturday on the eve of its closure. The political nature of the protest was explicit. She announced that there would be “Kamala friendship bracelets” and “cat lady costumes” along with other anti-Trump and anti-Vance features.

She then posted a picture of the gathering on Bluesky, her social media network of choice, and identified the Vance home. She didn’t do this on X, which she claims is “owned by a white supremacist who is actively spreading disinformation.”

These intimidation tactics are disgusting, considering this isn't just affecting Vance but his wife and three children of two, four, and six years of age. To be sure, if this was happening in the opposite direction and these were Republicans doing this outside the personal home of a Democrat politician with young children, you'd never heard the end of it from activists, the media, and social media denizens. 

The interesting part is when Hemingway notes that the leftists don't recognize their own actions as wrong. She quotes Luke Conway, a Grove City College psychology professor who studies authoritarian tendencies in populations. While he discovered both the left and the right have these tendencies, the left is largely blind to their own: 

To score high on Conway’s authoritarianism scale, respondents tend to agree that the country needs a strong leader, that “the leader should destroy opponents,” “that people should trust the judgment of proper authorities,” that people should “avoid listening” to dissidents, that “tough leaders” who can “silence troublemakers” should be put in power, and that “society should strongly punish those they disagree with.” They also tend to deny that their opponents have a “right to be wherever he or she wants to be” and “support the statement that the country would be better off if certain groups would just shut up and accept their … proper place in society.”

“When conservatives agree with those items, they subsequently admit (accurately) that they are authoritarian,” Conway wrote. “When liberals agree with those items, they actually are more likely to say they are not authoritarian.” The more authoritarian they are, the less they believe they are authoritarian, he notes.

This is a fascinating discovery, as it shows you that the left doesn't view their overt authoritarian behavior as authoritarian at all. Rather, they see it as something else that likely mimics freedom fighters doing what they have to in order to create a better country. This means embracing awful behaviors they would condemn in others, but morally justify for themselves. 

When you really stop to think about this, you start to see a very real danger. The "yarn bombing" might be a harmless protest, but it's really a mask for some of the more egregious things the left does. Case in point, how often do you see leftists on social media, or in the media, or activist groups, completely and totally memory hole the real suffering and brutality put upon others that don't align with their way of thinking? 

Those killed by illegal migrants. Trump's assassination attempt. The beating of Rand Paul by his neighbor. Antifa's attacks and assaults. The destruction and death connected to the Black Lives Matter riots. The utilization of government departments to attack citizens who reject leftist agendas. 

All of these things are wholly pushed into the shadows or, when brought up, justified through some flimsy means or subjected to ridiculous and often untrue "whataboutism." 

This can only be done if they truly see their opponents as not deserving of human treatment because they see them, you, as less than human. 

If that's not a powerful motivator to keep these people as far away from power as possible... I don't know what is.