The Twisted Psychology Fueling The Left’s Alliance With Terrorists

The inmates are taking over the asylum, and the psychiatrists think it’s just wonderful.

Jim Davis | April 7, 2026

This, followed by this, may be one of the sharpest takedowns of the lunatic left-wing fringe mindset you’ll ever encounter. Melanie Phillips doesn’t dance around the issue — she goes straight for the jugular vein of the self-delusion that defines the modern left.

Phillips teaches a masterclass in Left-Wing Victimology. It all begins with a neat little circle of vanity. Blue-haired leftists in Minneapolis, or Brooklyn, or San Francisco, or London, or Brussels tell themselves, “I’m liberal because I’m a good person; I’m a good person because I’m liberal.”

From that smug tautology, they build their entire house of cards — their frantic virtue-signaling on behalf of the “oppressed” (whether they’re in Haiti, Latin America, or any one of 50 Muslim territories), their knee-jerk habit of blaming every load-bearing pillar of Western civilization (e.g. men, fossil fuels, Christianity, capitalism) as “oppressive,” and their allergic reaction to any facts that refuse to fit the preferred narrative.

Then came October 7, 2023.

Their cherished “oppressed victims” in Gaza, whom the left had been championing for about 75 years, revealed themselves as something far darker: the most bloodthirsty savages imaginable. Not mere killers, but perpetrators of sadistic, barbaric, depraved slaughter — raping, beheading, torturing, and burning alive babies, children, women, and elderly men.

And livestreaming every gruesome moment on GoPro cameras and iPhones. And then dancing in celebration, in the streets of Gaza. The video........

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