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[Order David Horowitz’s new book, The Radical Mind: The Destructive Plans of the Woke Left: HERE.]
“The belief that the world is marching towards justice, and that to be a progressive means one is ‘on the right side of history,’” writes David Horowitz in his important new book, The Radical Mind: The Destructive Plans of the Woke Left, “is a delusion that will justify any and every atrocity, and already has.”
Nobody knows this better than Horowitz. Born into a Communist family, he was at the very center of the action during the Vietnam War and Black Power movement. After his epochal autobiography, Radical Son (1996), which rivetingly recounted his career in, and ultimate departure from, the left, he published a number of books – with titles like Uncivil Wars: The Controversy Over Reparations for Slavery and Unholy Alliance: Radical Islam and the American Left – that anatomized the left’s ongoing assault on American norms and values. And in the wake of his monumental, eight-volume compilation The Black Book of the American Left, he’s written a series of brief, eminently cogent bestsellers that are the Trump era’s version of Thomas Paine’s indispensable Revolutionary-era pamphlets Common Sense and The American Crisis.
To wit: Dark Agenda (2019) explored the left’s war against America’s Christian roots; Blitz (2020) cataloged Trump’s magnificent presidential record and the left’s brazen attempt to misrepresent it; The Enemy Within provided an overview of “woke” America, with a special focus on cancel culture, the war on whiteness, and the rise of Critical Race Theory; and I Can’t Breathe took on Black Lives Matter – its poisonous ideology, its deep-seated hypocrisy, and, not least, its roster of ersatz martyrs, from Trayvon Martin to George Floyd, whose purported victimization has been used to undergirl a fraudulent narrative of systematic racism and police brutality.
Admittedly, some of us didn’t need to be told that BLM was a crock, that CRT is hogwash, or that Trump had been a terrific president. And happily, more and more Americans are recognizing the left-wing narrative – from the climate-change hoax to the “insurrection” lie, from the Biden crime family cover-up to the trans fantasy – for the Big Lie that it is. But tens of millions still believe the legacy media’s tall tales. And while they continue to believe, the left continues to consolidate its hold on the Democratic Party, the legacy media, the elite universities, major corporations, and the higher levels of the military and intelligence agencies. Which is why The Radical Mind – in which Horowitz once again takes on the left with clarity, urgency, and undiminished vigor – matters so much.
In order to make one of his key points, Horowitz takes us back to the Vietnam War. As that conflict dragged on and the protest marches grew in size and number, the ability of the U.S. to prosecute the war was weakened, leading eventually to a messy, mortifying withdrawal. And what happened then? The Communists moved in and slaughtered millions. And what, asks Horowitz, did the leaders of the American peace movement do in response to this monstrous genocide, in which the victims vastly outnumbered U.S. war casualties? Nothing. They’d passionately protested the war, but never commented on the postwar butchery. Why? Because, as Horowitz underscores, they were never really opposed to war or in love with peace – they were opposed to America and in love with Communism.
That’s the crucial insight: they weren’t antiwar; they were pro-Communist. And the insight, as Horowitz adroitly points out, still applies today, mutatis mutandis: establishment Democrats – who’ve left liberalism far behind and embraced Marx – “are not soft on crime. They are pro-crime.” Because crime is social justice in action. Looting is reparation; theft is wealth redistribution.
Understand this and you’ll understand everything. Why illegal aliens were flown for free from the Texas border to cities around the country while U.S. citizens were billed for being airlifted out of Israel after October 7. Why colleges that a year ago were firing faculty for holding mainstream views now defend professors who cheer genocide. Why, as antisemitism has skyrocketed, the Biden administration chose to introduce an initiative against Islamophobia. And why the same Justice Department officials and Soros-funded DAs who gave a pass to Antifa rioters and BLM arsonists are inventing bogus reasons to bring down Donald Trump.
But of course the left has no choice: it has to crush Trump. It’s nothing less than an existential threat to government of the people, by the people, and for the people. And who or what, above all else, represents an existential threat to them? Trump, naturally. Of all the politicians who ran for president in 2016, he was the only one who truly challenged the leftist takeover – and the establishment Republicans who were content to be the controlled opposition.
And so they came up with the Russia-collusion hoax – and more. Even some of his purported allies tried to foil his determination to “make America great again.” And still, as Horowitz reminds us, Trump achieved a great deal for ordinary Americans during his four years in the White House. He took the economy to new heights. He engineered historic peace agreements in the Middle East. These and other achievements strengthened America, served its people – and stymied the pernicious designs of the left, whose media minions dropped these triumphs down the memory hole. Democrats have long posed as champions of the “black community,” but in reality, ever since LBJ’s Great Society, they’ve promoted policies that ensured the persistence of black poverty, crime, and joblessness. And they’ve done this because for progressives – as Horowitz writes, making yet another crucial point – “the issue is never the issue.”
Exactly. The issue is never the issue. Since the Hamas invasion of Israel, we’ve seen left-wing student activists – including many who identify as gay and transgender – marching in support of the terrorists. Observers have asked: don’t these kids realize that if they went to Gaza, they’d be dispatched instantly? Maybe so, maybe not. But what they do know – and it’s the only thing that matters to them – is that Hamas, like them, wants to smash the West. Only the revolution matters. Never mind that the revolution, ever since Robespierre, has always ended up devouring its own: such details never stop a true believer. So it is that Greta Thunberg, formerly obsessed with climate change, has now become a champion of Hamas.
So it goes. When Obama “put kids in cages,” nobody on the left cared – but when the practice continued under Trump, they began screaming about it. Under Trump, the number of unaccompanied children crossing the border was tiny compared to what it’s been under Biden; but the left-wing compassion for those kids disappeared the moment the doddering Democrat from Delaware shuffled into the Oval Office. As Horowitz states, child trafficking at the border is “a humanitarian crisis without precedent” – yet it’s “sparked no revolt or opposition within the Democratic Party,” because those children’s well-being matters far less to the left than the goal of “changing the demographics and voting patterns of the American electorate” by permitting millions of prospective Democratic voters to cross the Rio Grande.
Since the radical mind now touches virtually every corner of American life, this book covers a lot of territory. The Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion departments that, under Obama, were installed at colleges and businesses and in every federal agency? As Horowitz shows, they’re nothing more than Maoist “re-education camps.” He discusses the left’s conquest of even the FBI, CIA, and armed forces, with people like Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin promising, absurdly, to fight “racists” in the military and Attorney General Merrick Garland and Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas claiming that our “greatest domestic threat” is white supremacism.
What else? Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her “squad” get the full Horowitz treatment. So does the grotesquely overrated Sam Harris, who’s supposed to be some kind of philosopher, ethicist, and hero of rationalism but who suffers from one of the world’s severest cases of Trump Derangement Syndrome. Hunter Biden, said Harris on a podcast last year, “literally could have the corpses of children in his basement” and “I would not have cared….It doesn’t even stack up against Trump University, right?” A chilling assertion, but look at it this way: the cynicism with which the southern border has been left open to all comers, including child traffickers, certainly reaffirms – as did the indifference of Mao, Pol Pot, and others to the loss of innocent lives – that in the minds of many a dedicated leftist, Sam Harris apparently included, keeping the “right” people in power and keeping the “wrong” people out is worth the corpses of any number of children.
“Destroy the old, establish the new.” It’s a motto of the Chinese Cultural Revolution, and Horowitz uses it as the epilogue to one of his chapters. Destruction; iconoclasm; pulling down statues of Jefferson and putting up statues of George Floyd: that’s the whole game in a nutshell. Recall Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign promise to “fundamentally transform America.” As Horowitz points out, it all goes back to the Italian Communist Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937), who counseled that the revolution should be advanced not with guns and bullets but rather “by taking over the means of cultural production.” The Sixties radicals whose antiwar marches failed to rock the system heeded this sage advice: after putting away their placards and posters, they went on to influential careers in the cultural field – and (especially) as professors, one of whom, the former Weatherman terrorist Bill Ayers, became a mentor to none other than Obama himself.
And it was Obama who, proving indeed to be transformational, took the radicalization of America to a new level, expertly prodding the country into greater and greater division. It’s Obama, too, who, during this Twilight Zone sequel to the unfairly aborted Trump presidency, still seems to be in charge. As we approach yet another election in which the left will, once again, surely do all it can to foil the will of the deplorables, David Horowitz has given us an illuminating invaluable account of these people’s determination to quash everything that’s good about America – a determination that those of us who are true patriots must, in these times when Marxists hold almost all of the reins of power, resolve to resist with all our might. In so doing we’re fortunate to have as a role model this man who had the strength of character to confess that he’d been wrong, and who has, ever since, with incomparable backbone, devoted his life to standing up for the freedom that he once sought to destroy.
The worst damage to own country has come from none other than Barack Obama who is a white-hating POS. When BLM went crazy busting up the country, Obama and Michelle went silent. I ” trolled” them on Twitter demanding to know why they weren’t condemning the violence in June 2020. I got kicked off of Twitter for it. That’s when I knew they were in on it. And his financier, Soros, picked up the tab to make it all happen.
Obama and Holder LOVE that blacks have been on a major crime spree since the death of George Floyd, Why, whitey deserves to have his car carjacked. Let’s face it, Barack Obama is the most vile human being on the face of the earth. God, how I wish somebody would take him out.
All,
It would be nice to see the same kind of energy and support on display by Frontpage Magazine for Israel displayed for the United States, especially regarding the invasions of our borders.
Hamas is teaching the cartels how to construct better tunnels right now.
Are you new here? FPM has always been front and center vis a vis immigration, legal and illegal. Since 10/7, FPM has, understandably, put Israel front and center, but those of us who’ve been here for years know that this is a departure from FPM’s typical 10-12 to 1 non-Israel to Israel ratio of articles.
Go watch, “The Big Lebowski” and get a little wisdom: Dont just walk into the middle of a long discussion and think you know what’s going on.
All,
Who are the two idiots that disagree with what I said? Speak up.
Holder spent millions of our tax dollars to deport the Romeike family that entered legally from Germany (asking for legitimate asylum).
While jug-eared Barry was importing 1000’s of jihadists (as seen in San Bernadino) from Syria, the little prick was laboring to remove a single family.
What did the little bitch find so wrong with the Romeike family??
Their faults were as follows . . .
They were in-tact
They were well educated
They were protestant Christian
They were home-schoolers (not allowed in Germany)
They spoke English
They were employed & not taking public assistance.
They loved America, and worse . . .
They were white.
They even had two of the famed “anchor babies”, but B. Hussein found them repulsive, so they had to go. (His doddering fool, now in the White House, rejected the final appeal . . . all while making sure 10s of 1000s of jihadists, MS-13, and 3rd world beggars walk right on in.)
I saw that story about the Romieke family on TV. Just when I thought I couldn’t hate Bareback Hasbeen Obama any more, I do. Alzheimer Joe No Border Biden, too.
The Romeikes are too mature & honest to pull such a stunt, but it’d be hilarious (and illuminating) if they’d return by crossing the Rio Grande.
Hey. Maybe they’d get free cellphones & a free plane trip back to Tennessee.
It could happen, if they wear Che T-shirts & get processed by an incompetent burocrat.
(Burocrats abound in ignorance. One signed off on a check for $99,000 to “Donald Duck” in the early 80’s)
Muslims suffer because depraved psychopathic murderous Islam deliberately makes them suffer.
Muslims pray to Allah by prostrating themselves on their knees,
banging their forehead on the ground over and over and over again,
and elevating their stinkin flamin arse holes up in the air toward Allah and Moo-Ham-Mud.
No wonder Muslims suffer.
And Sleazy Joe wants to let as many muslims crawl in here as possible (providing that they don’t try to live in Martha’s Vineyard).
Productive, law abiding Christians like the Romeikes, however, need not apply.
FJB and the mail-in ballots he rode in on.
We won WWII because Hitler attacked Russia and all the American commies suddenly became patriots and helped forge a united front. But their real cause was to save communism, not America.
Ron,
And, England got bombed by Germany after they bombed Germany first. Also, Ancestral Germans were made to wear the equivalent of the Star of David (Vatican-300 years ago in the Jerusalem Quarter) in countries outside Germany…
Ron, ancestral Germans who had nothing to do with the war,; some whom lived in other countries for centuries.
Islam itself, and at best, is a Sadism – Masochism Manufacturing Company.
And Muslims are its depraved psychopathic murderous employees and its dedicated customers as well.
The rest of humanity are Islam’s victims.
This is exactly my point of view. How I see ‘it’ all, so to speak.
Brilliant!
These four Leftist female morons represent the downfall of the West as no nation can survive their stupidity and treachery . They are precisely why women were historically, kept well away from politics
When truth is told, women were only allowed to vote out of misplaced idealism and a little pity
You post reminds me of a funny anecdote.
Rush became irate with a female caller who said she was going to vote for AL Gore, solely because he “loved his wife”.
He incredulously asked her what Gore’s economic policy was; what his foreign policy was.
She didn’t know or care. She was enthralled that Gore loved Tipper and that was enough. (Turns out he loved his masseuse also.)
After a female jurist insisted that the Menendez brothers were innocent because “you could see it in their eyes”, Rush joked about revoking the 19th Amendment. (He was only half joking.)
I’d love to see them go to Gaza and show the strength of their fake convictions.
They lack courage & lack the knowledge to even find Gaza on a map.
Indeed the Squad came to a free country where they enjoyed every freedom and right available to human beings. Now they side with the creators of chaos and tyranny to change what used to work. We called it the American Dream that was available to anyone who wanted to work, prosper, and live in a civil society that was governed by laws and people who held to a higher calling than themselves. Secular, anti-God socieites end up in self destruction and loss of everything desireable.
Idiocy, ignorance and leftist brain rot do not affect women exclusively…
True. The thing that occurred to me on reading the comment above regarding women voting, was that nations (in my case the UK) were not better governed when only men could vote.
Thank God for Margaret “Iron Lady” Thatcher.
Women like her & Golda Meir were indispensable stalwarts.
True. Single women, esp if single mothers, tend to vote Democrat. (Effeminate men that cry like women, vote straight democratic.)
Married women tend to vote conservative.
Stalwarts like Molly Hemingway, Julie Kelly, and Kimberley Strassel come to mind.
David Horowitz, more than any other man, led me to understanding the pernicious ways of the left and I will always be grateful to him. If every American read this article and understood the truth therein the country would turn 70% conservative overnight. I say 70% because 30% are hardcore morons and would remain leftist if Karl Marx himself pushed them down and Lenin, Ho Chi, Che and Obama took turns kicking them in the ribs.
“RENT ‘A MOB at Mobs ‘R Us a Soros & Obama Inc..”
If American Jihadist sleeper cells heard the alarm and woke up to destroy our country, would The Squad, and millions of others, fight against them, and Honor their Oath, or aid and abet them?
Democrats seem to come up with a Crisis they can’t Waste to recruit voters and new voters. Obama, and the CPUSA and Code Pink took advantage of The Day of Rage, September 17, 2011 which then turned into Occupy Wall Street, a year long protest with their mobs taking over parks to put their encampments. LED BY COMMUNISTS!
“The Democrats/MSM didn’t promote Americans to LIKE BIDEN, they only focused on getting Americans TO HATE TRUMP!” DIDN’T WORK.
BLACK LIVES MATTER… destroyed countless cities and ambushed and killed Police and were allowed to do it with NOT ONE PROMINENT DEMOCRAT CONDEMNING IT! LED BY COMMUNISTS!
Now HAMAS and the destruction of Israel. LED BY THE ENEMY WITHIN…. COMMUNISTS HIDING AS DEMOCRATS. There are signs by the organizers proving the Communist ties… ANSWER, The Party for Socialism and Liberation, The Revolutionary Communist Party, and the CPUSA. Their signs prove it.
NEXT….. The Anti-Columbus crusade, millions of followers, holiday named to Indigenous People’s Day, WILL NOW COME AFTER THANKSGIVING… THE WHITE INVADERS! They started a few years ago, like the anti-Columbus, but it hasn’t progressed BUT NOW IT WILL since they are equating the GENOCIDE AND ETHNIC CLEANSING TO ISRAEL while they support Hamas and Palestinians as equal to their struggle. THE FIRST PROTEST TO GET NATIONAL ATTENTION WITH THE HELP OF THE MEDIA. WHO IS THE GROUP? This group started here in Albuquerque, now national, and a COMMUNIST GROUP BY THEIR OWN MISSION STATEMENT!
THEREDNATION.ORG
AMERICAN’S FOLLOW COMMUNISTS AND KNOW IT!
Steve,
Ferdinand and Isabella commissioned Columbus with one top priority, to gather support to break the Islamic stranglehold on the Mediterranean. Everything else was secondary.
This is why Columbus is so hated by the left.
Good informative article. Looking at the woke mind, one wonders if indeed they are even human by their hatred of humanity.
The fact that Rape by Hamas is systematic against women, especially at the Oct 7 attack at Re’im music festival massacre shows hostility and hatred. Hamas committs atrocities against Gaza civilians, as they walk the streets as well as using human shields.
Al-Shifa Hospital has been the command center of Hamas with the undergroud infrastructure and a 55 meter long terror tunnels 10 meters deep underneath Shifa Hospital complex.
Iran is allowed to enrich uranium
Blocking aid to Israel
Promoting and replacing Hamas terror regime with the Palstinian authority regime
Stopping Israel’s right to assure that Gaza is no longer a terror base , this is what the Biden administration is supporting.
ROMANS 1:29. “They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed, and depravity. They are full of envy murder, strife, deceit, and malice. The Woke are fulfilling the scriptures exactly as God said they would.
So who does ceasefire benefit? We all know the answer to this question.
Yes, sir. And that’s why leftists vilify religion, rule of law, and traditional youth programs that convey proper. civil behaviors. They can’t offer a rational defense for all their misdeeds. They own the message that is transmitted to gullible Americans who comprise (in my opinion about 65% of voters. They own nearly every form of communications media- from news to social media and even entertainment and sports media. They own print and TV media as well as education and they get vicious when parents and consumers intervene to break up their evil doings to protect their children, their families, their religion and their country. At the top levels, leftists are aware of the damage they are doing and profiting from. At lower levels they have been purposefully misinformed and are by nature lazy, gullible, or fearful of social and physical consequences.
FWIW, our Secretary of Transportation, Pete Buttigieg’s, late father, Joseph, was a professor at Notre Dame. He was a big fan of Gramsci, (a Communist who counted Lenin among his friends), translated his works into English, and started a Gramsci society to promote him and his philosophy. Although you’ve probably read a lot about Buttigieg’s private plane travel and taking (fake) bike rides to cabinet meetings, you’ve likely never seen that reported.
The fascists are there. A scourge to fight. And if you don’t do it for yourself, do it for future generations. These people want to enslave people, destroy their capital, their freedom. We must fight them mercilessly.
WHERE ON PLANET EARTH ARE THE MUSLIMS NOT CAUSING HAVOC?
Pro-Palestinian antisemitism was carefully inculcated in the American psyche
By Andrea Widburg
Before I get into Wexler’s essay, let me just say that it’s a very peculiar genocide (a) that sees the population of Arabs in Gaza and the West Bank increase from 1.1 million in 1967 to 14 million in 2023 and (b) leaves slightly more than seven million Jews surrounded by approximately 250 million Muslims and/or Arabs. Having said that, how in the world did we get to the point at which seemingly rational people claim that there was no attack against Israel and, instead, that what we’ve heard about October 7 is all part of a nefarious scheme to kill all the Muslims in the West Bank and Gaza.
Taxpayers helped fund Hamas-affiliated organizations
By Andrea Widburg
Yesterday, we wrote about the Marxist American millionaires who are residents of China and donated over $20 million to an organization that’s mobilized many of the biggest pro-Hamas marches across America. Today, we’ll take that report a bit further to discuss the Hamas-aligned non-profit organizations that have received hundreds of millions of dollars from corporate foundations, employee giving, and even taxpayers themselves.
I skipped reading the article as I just started reading the book on Kindle; didn’t want to encounter any spoilers. I’m on page 30–it’s only 166 pages long–and already, its an eye opener, as David’s books always are.
Biden has no mind
The Liberal Collage Administrators the Leftists News Media Hollywood the DNC and those rewriting American History to suit their own agendas but the United Nations is one of the worst enemies on American Soil
Those women pictured in the article hate America and hate freedom. I suspect they turned out that way because they feel guilty for having had the material and social benefits from the good fortune of living in America. They see other peoples like the Palestinians who live miserable lives under Hamas governance and they envy this suffering and take it on as a bleeding heart cause to assuage their guilt. The German word that describes this virtual signalling based on self loathing is Leidensneid which is defined as an envy of suffering.
jimmy carter is a peanut , and sometimes he farmed them .
The best job carter has was remolding/restoring old homes for the Homeless
Everyone wants to know, who votes for this kind of mess…the woke….and the ill informed? Its plain that the groups that have been allowed to permeate the United States will not assymilate to our culture. From here on out there will be all kinds of plots to national security and to citizens.