Remember COVID? It’s now like it never happened. Then it was Ukraine. What’s Ukraine? Then ICE — just weeks ago. Now ICE is forgotten — unless they’re assisting you at airport security shut down by the very people screaming about ICE just weeks ago. Now the call to arms is No Kings. In weeks, or days, it will be forgotten.

Leftism is so shallow. Everything it shrieks about, or stomps its feet over, goes away so quickly. Their causes evaporate overnight. This shallowness makes leftism such a dishonorable–and disappointing– adversary. These people have not adopted a wrong ideology. It flatters them even to call them Communists or fascists. They are not ideologues; they have no ideas, because they exert no cognition. Fighting leftism is like fighting cotton candy.

Just think: If Donald Trump had not decided, a decade ago, to invest his multiple millions and decades of media presence not just to rescue America, but Western civilization itself, then the proponents of moral and intellectual cotton candy would have crushed us by now. What’s wrong with this picture? The least worthy have gained ground they never should have won. They never should have qualified for the battlefield. Jefferson, Madison, Franklin and all the others, wise and sharp as they were, would be confused and horrified by the caliber of the buffoons and freaks flooding the land of the free and home of the brave, drip by pitiful drip.

Crushing this insanity should be the easiest thing in the world. Maybe once we truly grasp the absurdity of it all, that’s how we will finally win.

Michael J. Hurd