A progressive Democratic U.S. Senate candidate in Maine adorned with a Nazi tattoo. That poorly chosen bodily aesthetic was not only revealing about this particular character but also a profound metaphor for the ethical and moral contradictions evident in contemporary liberalism.
An immutable law of political physics is that ideologically drifting too far left forces one to emerge on the far right of the political spectrum. The side where foreign tyrants perpetrate atrocities in their pursuit of communist utopia or fascist ideology.
Liberals who brushed off this offensive totem on their highly touted candidate did not really reckon with what it revealed about the paradoxical state of left-wing philosophy.
A recitation of recent leftist posturing in the United States more vividly illustrates the very real domestic threat: a Colorado congressional candidate who believed 911 was “inevitable” and could not label Jews being set on fire in Denver as a crime of antiSemitism; a Westchester, New York congressional candidate who condoned the Hamas attack on Israel, and called for the seizing of private property, the defunding of police and the removal of our national borders, and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s equivocation on the meaning of “globalize the intifada.”
Thus, we must now confront a new domestic “Nazi liberalism” where antisemitism, political pandering, historical ignorance, mandatory social conformance, and mob mentality thrive.
The antisemitism of the far left even aligns with white supremacists, both viewing Jews with equal loathing. There is also seeming congruence on the far left and far right that America should not defend basic principles of the western world against Middle East Islamic fascism and that to do so is catering to Jewish interests
Conjoining the word Nazi with liberalism may be jarring or an oxymoron for some, but Nazism in 1930s Germany was the name for the National Socialist German Workers Party. Semantics aside, their nefarious agenda was obscured under a banner of worker empowerment and the draconian remedying of economic inequality through centralized state control.
According to the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA): “We want to collectively own the key economic drivers that dominate our lives, such as energy production and transportation.”
Moreover, the leftist array of ideological zealots, promoted by Mamdani and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), scapegoat Jews and condemn support of the Jewish state, rationalize and excuse criminal violence, both domestic and internationally, and seek social remedies that are glaringly naïve, if not pernicious, all based on the fallacious certitude of their own moral superiority.
Can one envision these candidates condemning looting? Of course not, for them it would be justified by economic inequity and historical injustices.
The belief that Hamas’s depraved violence committed against men, women, and children is justifiable resistance, in reality, shows the utter amorality of the far left. Such twisted social justice logic could be capable of excusing any crime, however petty or heinous, when, of course, it is committed by those they deem truly victimized.
Similarly, in 1930s Germany, Nazi party ideology was propagandized as virtuous righting of historical wrongs. This same rationalization is now animating Nazi liberal ideology in the United States. Nazi liberals sympathize with Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iran. Given enough time, we will inevitably hear more of them overtly express empathy for the Al Qaeda justification for the 9/11 attack on our nation.
It should be axiomatic that these foreign terrorist entities are embodiments of evil who avow an aspiration for Jewish genocide and the overthrow of Western civilization. These are not forces of liberation, but fanatical forces of religious, political, and social oppression seeking regional and even worldwide hegemony antithetical to all true democracies.
Those on the Left who sympathize with foreign terrorists and then march in “No Kings” protests would seem to be obvious political hypocrites. But such glaring, inherent contradictions are elided over by a sympathetic press and obfuscated for purposes of political expediency to promote opposition to the administration.
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When Mamdani touted in his July 3 speech that “America is exceptional because here nothing is fixed into place,” he is slyly suggesting that we, as a nation, have no fixed, foundational philosophy of equality and universal justice. He is wrong. It may be aspirational at times, but our national moral value system relentlessly strives for basic human freedom, dignity, and tolerance.
By contrast, Nazi liberalism is, at its core, utterly amoral and prioritizes the pursuit of power over principle. The irony is liberal martinets avow their own self-righteous, moral indignation against political opponents. This deplorable ideology, now manifest on the far left of the Democratic Party, needs to be disavowed, condemned, and ostracized from our conventional political system.
Barry Ziman is a novelist and government relations professional in Northern Virginia.