The left’s Pavlovian hatreds are blinding them to their politically suicidal choices

The left’s Pavlovian hatreds are blinding them to their politically suicidal choices

By Victor Davis Hanson


The Washington Monument is seen as people participate in the "Remove the Regime" protest outside the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC on Saturday, November 22, 2025.
Inflexible cults like climate-change orthodoxy, DEI and Trump Derangement Syndrome make their adherents look utterly ridiculous.
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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion is a euphemism for a rigid racialist theology.

It deductively postulates that a large percentage of the population is oppressed by racism and sexism, mostly by white males.

DEI makes no allowance for the class or wealth of the alleged victims or their supposed victimizers.

Michelle Obama's gripes are:
So once that rigid party line is set, it cannot account for tens of millions of affluent and privileged non-white Americans or like numbers of poor and non-privileged whites.

Absurdities and ridicule must then follow.

One example is the spectacle of former First Lady Michelle Obama on her current book tour.


Mrs. Obama cannot finish an interview without whining about the racism she allegedly encountered as the once most influential and powerful woman in the United States.

According to Michelle, she was not given the exemptions that white first ladies received.

She did not get enough free stuff for the First Family.

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