The savage assassination of Charlie Kirk at a Turning Point rally at Utah Valley University yesterday prompts me to wonder, as I have often wondered, what is the leading characteristic of the Left? There are several candidates. Intolerance is one. A rancid and anchorless do-goodism—think of Dickens’s Mrs. Jelleby and her “telescopic philanthropy”—is another.
But on balance I think that the late Australian philosopher David Stove was right: the leading characteristic of the Left it is bloodthirstiness. Behind all the emollient rhetoric about brotherhood and equality, bloodthirstiness is the left’s most reliable calling card. . . .
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