Whose Fantasy of the Past?
5th March 2018
Joy Reid, a leftist writing at the Daily Beast, has a column titled “The Right Can’t Fight the Future.” It is an odd mingling of triumphalism and paranoia, a combination we see often on the left. It is the sort of thing we have seen a thousand times–the inevitable victory of leftism, never mind the USSR, East Germany, North Korea, Venezuela, and so on.
But some found Reid’s column impressive, including Larry Tribe, who was a smart guy when I knew him decades ago. I am not sure what has happened in the interim.
He succumbed to Leftist Brain Rot. It happens every time. This is why Obama didn’t dare nominate him to the Supreme Court, even though he was famous for being the Crust’s candidate for Best Constitutional Law Professor Ever.
I think Joy Reid has inadvertently made an important point. The crazed hatred of Donald Trump that we see on the left is based on a fantasy–a fantasy that liberals attribute to Trump and his supporters, but that in fact exists only on the left. In the minds of liberals.
And that’s all Trump Derangement Syndrome ever is. Anti-Trumpers make up some fantasy, ascribe it to Trump or his followers, and then proceed to go all Chicken Little on the basis of something that they themselves invented.