the "left" isn't coming to kill you.

everyone calm down.

Imagine being a 75 year old Boomer in 2023. You post about using your assortment of guns to “take out Biden,” because NewsMax said he is a Bolshevik plotting a communist takeover. When the right-wing calls Democrats “communists,” they are inciting violence against them. “Better dead than red,” you say.

The FBI sees this and shows up to your house.

You then brandish a firearm.

What is the duty of the FBI at that point? Run away? Cower in fear? Hope this insane man does not shoot?

No, you kill him. That is the standard practice of law enforcement.

For some reason, the right-wing understands this when it comes to black people. When black people fight cops or threaten them, they “fucked around and found out.” But when a deranged Boomer does the same thing, it’s “the left will kill you for no reason.”

Right-wing victimology is competing with BLM to become the biggest cry-bully.

Back in 1776, or 1848, or 1917, leftism wasn’t about protecting black people from cops. That particular fetish didn’t animate the 1994 Clinton Crime Bill. The leftist tendency to claim that violent blacks “dindu nuffin” is a relatively recent problem in the grand scheme of history.

While most people trace the origin of wokeness to 2014, or even 2012, I think it began around 2006, during Bush’s second term. No one seemed to object to Bush Sr’s deployment of the National Guard to stop the Rodney King riots. Rooftop Koreans were praised, not villainized.

Yes, there was always a hard left, like the Black Panthers, which called for a war on the police. But it never entered the mainstream Democratic Party.

We have the data on this.

It wasn’t until 2004 that Democrats became more liberal on abortion:

It wasn’t until after 1990 that homosexuality became a salient political issue. Bill Clinton signed “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.”

Historically, the Democrats were the party of mass deportations, segregation, Southern identity, welfare, and unions. After 1945, the first two platforms were scrubbed, but Southerners continued voting Democrat until 1992. The stuff about gay sex and abolishing the police really didn’t become prominent until the last twenty years.¹ This phenomenon is a blip in the long history of American politics. It is not some iron law of political science that the Democrat Party needs to support infinite crime.

If you want to play the Moldbug game, it’s possible that the “hands-up-don’t-shoot” mythology can be traced back much further to some Quaker encyclical from the 1700s… Maybe there was some Anabaptist in the 17th century arguing against the death penalty for murderers, and that’s where it all began…

I distinguish between the leftist tendency to blame all crime on socio-economic factors (rather than genetics or fatherlessness or “bad culture”) and the leftist tendency to excuse and permit crime itself. I agree with the left that the causes for crime are sociological rather than genetic, and the best way to reduce crime is to assimilate and integrate populations together, rather than segregating them in the inner cities. I do not believe that black people have “ghost DNA” which forces them to be violent.

I am also a radical prison abolitionist, and I do believe that mass short-term incarceration (catch-and-release) could increase long-term crime, through peer effects. But the way in which violent criminals have been fetishized by the left simply for the color of their skin is so obviously an example of codependent-narcissism, or Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy.

The codependent-narcissist projects their sense of ego onto a proxy, a victim, and then “advocates” for their chosen victim to an absurd degree. In the family setting, this looks like a mother who has her child diagnosed with all sorts of fake diseases so that she can feel like a martyr. In the political world, this looks like endless droning on about “socio-economic factors” to waive away the gang rape of children.

The subtitle of that article is “Dirty Harry leftism.” I advocate for a leftist Bukele, someone who will parade criminals in chains down the street, a neo-liberal Stalin. I don’t want any infringement on liberty, but a defense of the liberty of victims, whose lives are being terrorized. When Hillary Clinton used the term “superpredators” she was making a reference to the 3% of the black male population who make life impossible for their neighbors.

A combination of sexual liberalism, feminism, LGBTQ tolerance, fused together with law and order, is already something which has proven itself to be a powerful political idea: it is one which Donald Trump directly appealed to in 2016.

Unfortunately, the right-wing is drifting further from that winning formula, embracing the politics of resentment and paranoia. After Trump’s victory, the emerging “dissident right” was led by Nick Fuentes, Andrew Tate, Tucker Carlson, Matt Walsh, and Chaya Raichik (Libs of TikTok).

What these influencers all have in common is that they are theocratic, anti-feminist, conspiracy theorists. They believe that there is a war on God, on the family, on gender norms, and this constitutes a pedophile conspiracy by elites to corrupt the sexuality of the youth.

This is something quite different from Trump 2016, which could be accurately described as secular liberalism with a set of sharpened teeth.

The question is whether or not the theocratic conspiracists on the right can be “reformed” so that the spirit of 2016 can be resurrected, or whether it is more likely for a secular law-and-order platform to re-emerge on the left, as it appeared in 1992. My position is clear: the right will only further devolve into conspiracy and victimology, and so, the only option is for us to do the hard work of reforming the left.

Hence the term “deep left” means to go down into that subterranean world, beyond the superficial memes and violence of antifa, and to deal with the metapolitical. This is what the alt-right was doing from 2010-2014: it discovered the “third rail” of American politics, and did the thankless task of theorizing about how that might be brought to power. The Deep Left is to the Democratic Party in 2025 what the alt-right was to the Republican Party in 2010.

If the Democrats cannot be reformed, they will lose. No one likes shoplifting, murder, chaos, and disorder. Non-white men hate it the most, and they are leaving the Democratic Party in droves.

BLUE: Hispanic men registering GOP. RED: Hispanic women registering GOP. source

The problem goes beyond the “surface level” of explicit crime. It extends into the full spectrum of the aesthetics of disorder: the homeless encampments, filth and pollution, the dirtiness of the streets, the schizos screaming, smoking a cigarette on the subway, not using headphones, the menacing and hostile looks. These aesthetics are made worse by the tendency of Democrats to deliberately place antifa-freaks front-and-center, as mascots of the party.

They must be repudiated, segregated, and made to sit on the back of the bus or sleep under the bridge. Democrats must become beautiful again. We need more Gavin Newsom, more Taylor Swift, more Pete Buttigieg.

If the Democrats fail, then the future belongs to the right-wing mongrel.

“See you in Valhalla”

You think this is a funny joke, but go watch the Maori do a haka chant in memory of Charlie Kirk, and tell me that 56% Nationalism is not the future of the conservative movement:

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I am hopeful that Democrats will overcome the unfortunate missteps of the Obama era. If they do not, Epstein hysteria is only a preview of what is to come.

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Dinesh D’Souza is getting 23,000 likes for claiming that “Dixie Technical College” is turning out radical leftist killers. It’s a trade school.

Dinesh D’Souza, along with a legion of other braindead conservatives, believes that this is a Maoist training camp for Islamo-Fascist assassins.

This is a goofy worldview, but it has terrible consequences.

I talk with conservatives all the time, and they really do believe that defunding our colleges would be a good thing. First, they want to ban Indian and Chinese students from attending, removing a significant source of funding (tuition payments from overseas). The government subsidizes most tuition, but not foreign tuition, so this is very financially damaging.

Next, they want to demand the expulsion of any student who exercises the right to protest against the genocide in Gaza, on the grounds that it is “disrupting student learning.” Never mind the fact that students are using ChatGPT, or getting wasted on the weekends… No, the real obstacle to learning is “antisemitism.”

As I wrote in my article on education, learning doesn’t matter. College is not for learning. College is for networking, identity, status, sex, and innovation. While I think we could do with a bit less status-signaling, I’m especially concerned with funding colleges as a means of funding innovation.

When students pay $100k in tuition, they are keeping these institutions afloat. They are contributing to the budget. Eventually, in a roundabout way, that money ends up helping to fund critical research in STEM. Could we make this system more efficient? Of course.

We could, for example, create a 5% innovation payroll tax, which would replace Social Security and Medicare, to help fund advances in science. But since that’s a pipe dream, we are stuck with the system that we have. Rather than impotently protest about how our means of funding research “could be more efficient,” I’d rather just fund the damn thing.

But conservatives aren’t interested. First, they want to kick out the 5% of students who are “radical leftists,” according to their definition of “opposing genocide.” Then, when that’s not good enough, they want to go after the tax-exempt status of universities, which will cost them billions of dollars.

If you want to discover what the end goal of this is, just look at what Chris Rufo did to New College of Florida. He took it from being one of the top public liberal arts colleges in America and turned it into some kind of little league team. It’s very depressing.

Conservatives won’t stop until every college is as dumb as Liberty University. They have the exact same mentality as the theocrats of Iran. Any college student caught blaspheming against Israel and Saint Kirk will be deported under MAGA communism.

Antifa isn’t real.

Conservatives keep claiming that this guy is “antifa.” Antifa doesn’t exist. Antifa was a LARP, an emulation of European street gangs, which began during the WTO protests in the 90s, and ended sometime around 2019. It was born with, and died with, the alt-right. It was its mirror image.

There are some very sick and delusional left-wing people who believe that there are enough American communists to successfully pull off a violent revolution. Then, on the other hand, you have sick and delusional conservatives who think these people are serious. They are not — you cannot take over the country with assassinations of podcasts.

It’s very appropriate to compare what happened to Kirk and the 1933 Reichstag fire. In 1933 in Germany, there was a large contingent of millions of German communists (14% of the country) who opposed the Nazis. If given the chance, they absolutely would have violently overthrown the government. Unfortunately for the communists, the alliance of conservatives and Nazis together was able to swiftly crush them. The state apparatus was too strong.

In 2025, the left is nowhere near as violent. There’s a vast logistical difference between a gay theater teacher posting (in poor taste) about how Charlie Kirk got his karma for supporting gun rights, and German communists marching down the street in uniforms and armbands.

Let me spell out what exactly is missing in the modern leftist coalition: white guys. Not black guys, not Hispanic guys, not gay guys, not school teachers, not catladies: heterosexual, masculine young white guys. If you don’t have enough of those fellows, you cannot stage a revolution.

But conservatives need to keep the specter of antifa alive, so that they have something to fear and rail against. Tim Pool is at it again, claiming that America is on “the brink of Civil War.”

My friends, America is not on the brink of Civil War. This is not 1859. To have a Civil War, you need two camps of opposed elites. We don’t have that. We have a fairly politically moderate military and an extremely moderate banking and financial class.

The CEO of Palantir is a half black, half Jewish self-described socialist-progressive. Elon Musk voted for Biden in 2020. There are no radical right-wing elites; there are no radical communist elites. At the top, there is no great division with which to produce a Civil War.

So yes, there may be more political violence, more assassinations, but war is a game of elites, not of the mob.

Horror

I am horrified by mob violence. This subject deserves its own article, but passive aggressive people scare me, probably because they remind me of myself…

There are genuinely kind people, warm and loving, but then there are people who are clearly wearing a mask. And that mask is frightening.

Think of the lion, a creature of immense violence. If a lion was chasing me, I would be afraid. But from a distance, the lion is beautiful and admirable. We know what he is capable from, but a lion does not inspire existential horror.

Compare this to a transvestite, a clown, a man wearing the face of a woman.

There is something terrifying about passive-aggression.

Most animals wear their hostility on their sleeve. If you annoy a cat, it hisses at you. If a dog feels threatened, it barks. Good people, when they feel anger, they communicate that anger honestly. They yell, or swear, or warn you. Only when backed into a corner, fight-or-flight, do they become violent.

But the passive-aggressive hides behind a veneer of kindness. They put on a performance of tolerance. Then, all of a sudden, when no one is around, they strike, unleashing a built-up torrent of viciousness and cruelty.

This is why masculine men are attractive, while weak men are creepy. The masculine man has no need for subterfuge, while the weak man pretends to be innocent, moral, harmless… Until he has the power to attain his revenge.

They will put on the friendly face, and then when the opportunity arises, they will remind you of every mistake you have ever made. It’s very sinister.

I understand why conservatives associate this passive-aggressive fakeness with the HR lady, trans people, and the left generally. As frightening as this phenomena is, however, it does not translate into a capacity for real violence.

The “left” isn’t coming to kill you. In the worst case, it is coming to tax you, limit freedom of association or expression, and regulate the economy, but there’s no Maoist genocide on its way.

Conservatives can’t understand — they don’t want to understand. They want to believe that their enemies are violent, because that’s how conservative understand conflict, as something physical and violent. But the capacity for violence simply isn’t there.

There is no wave of violence.

If you wanted to make the case that America was headed toward civil war, the best time to have made that would have been in 2017, when the clashes between the alt-right and antifa were at their height. But political violence has actually decreased since that point, and become much less violent.

Imagine if Reagan was successfully assassinated in 1981. Would that have sparked a civil war? Obviously not. In 2025, political violence is too dispersed, too schizo, too online to result in civil war. War involves organized, opposing forces. Lone wolves do not make a war.

What is actually happening is that both the left and the right need the idea of violence to excite their base and turn them out to the polls. Leftists claim they are fighting fascism, while the right-wing pretends that antifa is real. It’s a cynical game, and if you repeat the lies long enough, you begin to believe them.

That doesn’t mean that I think a country ruled by Charlie Kirk would be a nice place to live. I wouldn’t want to hear the president talk about how “Jewish communities have been pushing hatred against whites,” or to see abortion banned and colleges defunded. But equating Alex Karp with Hitler is deeply deceptive, and equating Kamala Harris with Mao Zedong is beyond conspiratorial — it is retarded.

In closing:

1. I originally wrote “the last two years” and hit publish and oh boy that was a typo.