{"id":12762,"date":"2020-12-21T06:00:13","date_gmt":"2020-12-21T14:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=12762"},"modified":"2020-12-19T23:48:01","modified_gmt":"2020-12-20T07:48:01","slug":"where-did-the-new-mad-left-come-from","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/where-did-the-new-mad-left-come-from\/","title":{"rendered":"Where Did the New Mad Left Come From?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson\/\/ National Review<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bouts&nbsp;of extreme leftism are frequent in history. Plato\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Apology<\/em>, Edmund Burke\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Reflections on the Revolution in France<\/em>, and Vladimir Lenin\u2019s&nbsp;<em>What Is to Be Done<\/em>? \u2014 all offer us insight into the mind and methods of the hard Left.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>America has experienced surges of mainstream anarchism, socialism, and communism, most profoundly during the late 19th century, amid the Great Depression, during the Soviet-American alliance of World War II and afterward, and in the 1960s. But rarely have these radical movements openly and without apologies made such inroads into and inside government and the establishment as during the past decade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We had earlier seen massive rioting, looting, and iconoclasm, similar to the chaos of summer 2020. But seldom did they continue with the de facto approval of mayors who restrained the police and turned their downtowns over to virtual occupiers setting up \u201cautonomous\u201d zones. Nor had we see seen city councils defund police operations. New York\u2019s mayor Bill de Blasio and Seattle\u2019s mayor Jenny Durkan were not so much hard-Left Democrats or socialists as they were anarchists who ceded control of parts of American cities to other anarchists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We cannot recall any district attorney in memory who simply declared that an entire array of crimes no longer existed, and that those convicted of them would be let loose on the public. Yet Los Angeles County district attorney George Gasc\u00f3n recently announced that his office will not be charging anyone arrested for making criminal threats, possessing drugs and drug paraphernalia possession, being publicly intoxicated or under the influence of a controlled substance, loitering to commit prostitution, resisting arrest, or a host of other crimes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2020\/12\/where-did-the-new-mad-left-come-from\/\">Read the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson\/\/ National Review Bouts&nbsp;of extreme leftism are frequent in history. Plato\u2019s&nbsp;Apology, Edmund Burke\u2019s&nbsp;Reflections on the Revolution in France, and Vladimir Lenin\u2019s&nbsp;What Is to Be Done? \u2014 all offer us insight into the mind and methods of the hard Left. America has experienced surges of mainstream anarchism, socialism, and communism, most profoundly during the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-3jQ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12905,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-illustrious-stanford-left-turns-against-three-of-its-own-not-on-the-left-vdhanson\/","url_meta":{"origin":12762,"position":0},"title":"The illustrious Stanford Left turns against three of its own not on the Left. @VDHanson","author":"victorhanson","date":"March 2, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":12854,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-progressive-left-doesnt-think-its-censorship\/","url_meta":{"origin":12762,"position":1},"title":"The Progressive Left Doesn&#8217;t Think It&#8217;s Censorship","author":"victorhanson","date":"February 9, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11571,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-rise-of-the-new-old-left\/","url_meta":{"origin":12762,"position":2},"title":"The Rise Of The New Old Left","author":"victorhanson","date":"December 10, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ Hoover Institution In the 1960s, campus radicals were branded the New Left. 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