Why the Left is So Hard to Defeat
Hot Air,
by
Mark Judge
Original Article
Posted By: Hazymac,
9/14/2025 7:25:24 AM
In the wake of Charlie Kirk’s death, conservatives are angry. We don’t want violence, but we do want justice. We want Kirk’s killer brought to justice and the left crushed.
Finding Kirk’s assassin might prove easier than defeating the left. It’s difficult to rout an enemy who is suffering from a psychological problem.
That problem is narcissism. Narcissism is not self-love, but the opposite. The narcissist is not full of ego. He has no sense of self. Lacking a stable sense of identity, the narcissist hunts for meaning in therapy, self-help, sex, or radical politics. This is the mental illness and the driving politics
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Strike3 9/14/2025 7:39:00 AM (No. 2003694)
The laws of God and this civilized country prevent us from doing what really needs to be done.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Newtsche 9/14/2025 8:14:57 AM (No. 2003710)
Generations of indoctrination convincing them their political opponents are monsters who oppress them.
Who needs leftist ideology when you're at war? Kill!
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BarryNo 9/14/2025 8:40:51 AM (No. 2003724)
The Left is hard to defeat for much the same reason that people on PCP and other drugs, or the insane are hard to defeat: They are disassociated from reality, and do not wish to acknowledge it, and are willing to kill you to remove any attempt to return them to reality and make them act responsibly.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
AltaD 9/14/2025 9:11:58 AM (No. 2003738)
The Left's behavior is not a result of mental illness. The Left is evil.
Evil is real and evil has been on blast this past week, from the shooter to the thousands who celebrate the cold-blooded murder of an innocent young man. I had classmates who cheered when Ronald Reagan was shot, no doubt these same people cheered when Rush Limbaugh passed away. I thought they were in the minority, I fear I'm wrong as I see thousands celebrating the assassination of Charlie. We have ignored this evil for far too long. Confront evil head-on and root it out of society, starting with educators.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
mean Gene 9/14/2025 9:39:15 AM (No. 2003748)
The Left is "all-in," on their beliefs.
You don't convince yourself to get an abortion or to trans your own child unless you swallow whole that weird set of death-cult beliefs.
As #3 states the deluded and the addicted are hard to defeat.
Those self-deluded and drug dependent are worse.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
franq 9/14/2025 10:36:43 AM (No. 2003777)
Simple. Evil will not be completely defeated this side of Christ's return.
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jeffkinnh 9/14/2025 11:07:26 AM (No. 2003783)
"Narcissistic patients ... “are afraid of not belonging to the company of the great, rich, and powerful, and of belonging instead to the ‘mediocre,’ by which they mean worthless and despicable rather than ‘average’ in the ordinary sense of the term.” They worship heroes only to turn against them when their heroes disappoint them."
WOW! What a perfect description of the Left. It explains why they seek jobs in such as acting, politics, academics, the "expert" class, ... The people who succeed in these areas are in the public eye and receive adulation. The rest of us are "deplorables".
And when the heroes of the Left fail, they don't question or condemn what they did. They delete the person because they became ordinary by failing. This explains how Leftist ideology persists through continuous failure. In the Left's expert beliefs, what they want is the way it should be. The only failure is the failure of the people who try to carry it out. Plug in a new person and do it again.
Their narcissism allows them to justify ANY means to achieve their goals. They may try to moderate their actions if they think that will help them achieve their goals. However, when moderation fails, they are quite willing to ramp up what they are willing to do. Lies, corruption, criminal activity, riots, and assassinations are justifiable.
The worst threat to them is the complete rejection of their agenda and with it their identity and perceived value. We see a choice to reject failed liberalism as a rational step. They see it, even if delusional, as a personal existential threat. That makes them VERY dangerous.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
synchronicity 9/14/2025 11:53:23 AM (No. 2003801)
I'm 73 and just recently discovered that all of the weirdness I experienced in my family growing up was due to 4 of the 7 family members having different types / levels of narcissism including my mother. What the article doesn't pay particular attention to but contains "THE" thing about narcissism that makes it both untreatable and EVIL by its very nature is that those exhibiting it are by defininition incapable of empathy / compassion. The only way to deal with narcissists is to completely cut off all contact / interaction with them forever - there is no cure or change of heart (they don't have an emotional heart that can change). In a recent column by Naomi Wolf dealing with the Charlie Kirk assassination she references the story in the Bible of Jesus expelling demons from a man, their name was "Legion" meaning a vast number. What I'm trying to say is ~50% of our country is possessed by evil with no desire to change. How could this be? Recent books by Iain McGilchrist provide the only answer that makes any sense, at least to me - Dems / liberals / the Woke and those who mimic them are only allowing information from their left brain hemisphere to be processed. The right brain hemispere is the part of us that has access to promptings from our intuition / the unseen / the Divine. We were made to use both hemispheres but materialism / atheism / selfishness has driven ~50% of our population away from any deeper understandings of life and reality in general. Until this / these attitudes change there is no hope for a positive resolution to the situation we currently find ourselves in - the LEFT refuses to tread where God's goodness, truth and beauty abides and are therefore rejecting enlightenment, common human decency and a world that welcomes children with love and not death. Buckle up, it is going to worse before it can get better.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Kate318 9/14/2025 11:57:26 AM (No. 2003805)
The left is hard to beat because too many on the right still don’t understand what we are up against. Only once the scope and gravity of the situation is fully grasped, and thus fully acted upon, can we hope to make some headway.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
danu 9/14/2025 4:38:07 PM (No. 2003904)
eisenhower did not really say this... cos the gop is lazy MIC -greedy weak and stupid.
the patriots will be working double triple over time for liberty and justice for all.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
rochow 9/14/2025 5:15:15 PM (No. 2003924)
I thought she was writing about the POS community punk who diddled around in the WH. Well, after he had his vegetable stuffed back in, he was ready to radicalize the US.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Toodles3956 9/14/2025 6:06:08 PM (No. 2003944)
They are so hard to defeat because they shoot & we don't.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
billa57 9/15/2025 7:29:17 AM (No. 2004088)
They have the complete, undying support of the MSM, the most successful propaganda machine ever imagined. They never except criticism or admit to being wrong. EVER!
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
The Remnants 9/15/2025 7:49:17 AM (No. 2004098)
They will do anything to win. Right or wrong is never part of the equation for them.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 9/15/2025 9:06:26 AM (No. 2004128)
It’s difficult to defeat an enemy whose religion is politics. Not only that, but the snake oil they’re selling 24x7 on their practically “state funded” broadcast/media operations is the age old mantra of, “If it feels good, do it!,” hedonism. Any Republican message of, God, Bible, and Law, is going to sound much less appealing in comparison to a mixed up, brainwashed yoot. The best way to defeat the left is to show the world the difference between “Red” run cities, and “Blue.” Lord knows we have more than ample supply of the latter, so finding a single large city with true majority representation of Republicans is the issue. The Democrats and LBJ’s, “Great Society,” converted otherwise hard working people into Welfare Goblins and they won’t easily return to their great grandparents’ ways, since they never habituated in that environment. Unfortunately, there’s nothing here that a lot of blood and mayhem won’t eventually resolve. I suspect we might end up with significantly reduced population in this country before it’s alol said and done.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 9/15/2025 10:14:39 AM (No. 2004162)
The left are experts at influencing and manipulation. I think I first heard the term 'social media influencer' around 20 years ago. Now, I hear it is the number one job high school and college graduates want. Didn't understand that at first, but now I do. It's all part of leftist grooming the youth of our country. They aren't just grooming children to be gay.
I can't help but think sooner or later we lose our representative government, turn into a dictatorship, and lose many of our rights. All done in the name of 'protecting our democracy'. It will cause a civil war which is exactly what the people doing this want. They want to destroy our nation, and they are doing it from within.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
paral04 9/15/2025 12:01:45 PM (No. 2004206)
We can't beat the left anymore than we can beat evil because they are the same thing
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
NotaBene 9/15/2025 1:21:02 PM (No. 2004239)
Marxists are hard to defeat because they dedicate their entire lives to the cause of destroying Christian civilization.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
HisHandmaiden 9/15/2025 2:09:00 PM (No. 2004253)
Read the Bible through each year Dear LDotters until you don’t despair. God’s Word is still Truth. And then try to help those you meet anew to ‘Be kind,’ as I am working with my two Grand-blessings, 8 and 6.
God is still Sovereign.
TBIYTC
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The left is NOT hard to beat. All you have to do is clean up the voter rolls, end ballot harvesting, and restrict absentee voting to the folks who really need it - shut-ins and people who are actually traveling. The later group should have an early in person voting opportunity. Institute those reforms and the Dems win nothing but urban cores.
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