Civilization Versus the New Nihilists

Americans must choose between civilization—or its destroyers

  By Victor Davis Hanson  December 14, 2023

Nihilism is the religion of the Left. Anarchy is now at the core of the new Democratic Party.  If the Left wished radically to alter the demography of the U.S., it could have expanded legal immigration through legislation or the courts.  Instead, it simply erased the border and dynamited federal immigration law.  By fiat, nihilists ended the wall, and stopped detaining and deporting illegal aliens altogether.

Or was it worse than that when candidate Joe Biden in September 2019 urged would-be illegal aliens to “surge” the border? As a result, through laxity and entitlement incentives, eight-million illegal entrants have swarmed the southern border under the Biden administration. They are swamping border towns, bankrupting big-city budgets, and infuriating even Democratic constituencies..........All economists advised not to increase the deficit, spike further consumer demand, and expand entitlements. Instead the Left did just the opposite.............

 The nihilist, ghoulish beheading, torture, mutilation, mass rape, dismemberment, and necrophilia of unarmed, civilian Israeli elderly, women, children, and infants.  In sum, we are witnessing an epidemic of leftist nihilism similar to the 16^th-century European mad wave of iconoclastic destruction of religious art.  Or is the better parallel the suicidal insanity that Mao Zedong unleashed during his cultural revolution of the 1960s?

The old politics of right versus left, and Republican opposed to Democrat have now given way to a new existential struggle: Americans must choose between civilization—or its destroyers..............To Read More...