The Incoming Democrats: Are Hatred and Revenge a Strategy?

There’s an old Star Trek episode with a most memorable closing line; it comes to mind here. Titled “Let That Be Your Last Battlefield” (1969), it features two aliens from opposing, antagonistic groups. After spending some time aboard the starship Enterprise — a period during which the crew had to keep them separated and under control — they finally manage a return to their home planet.

They find it lifeless, with their civilization reduced to burning rubble; their two groups had completely destroyed each other. Despite this, and with their rage burning hotter than ever, they resume chasing each other across their dead world.

Plaintively observing this scene from aboard the Enterprise, the crew’s final exchange is this:

Mr. Spock: “All that matters to them is their hate.”
Lieutenant Uhura: “Do you suppose that’s all they ever had, sir?”

To this Captain Kirk responded: “No — but that’s all they have left.”

This is brought to mind by the post-midterm behavior of many Democrats. Fresh off a historically large victory, you might think they’d be jubilant, uncontainably happy.

You’d have to think again.

Because instead, some are hissing about what they want to do to their political enemies (i.e., Republicans).

Writing about this today, commentator J.R. Dunn cites three Democratic “influencers”: podcaster Jennifer Welch, “intellectual” Scott Galloway, and increasingly unhinged political strategist James Carville. They all seem to be plotting “revenge” (though for what remains a mystery).

At issue, though, isn’t just politics, but something far more fundamental: spirituality.

They Really Care — “About What?” Is the Question

Opening with Carville, the “Ragin’ Cajun,” Dunn notes that he was sometimes making sense over the summer. Now, however, here’s what the Democrat has to say, in his usual backwoods style:

You right. I gots Trump Derangement Syndrome. I hate the m*****f*****. And ya know what? I don’t want to get rid of it. I don’t wanna get better. I wanna get worse. I wanna hate him more. I pray to God in heaven. God, rain the righteous rain of Trump Derangement Syndrome on me. Pray for me, Lord, I’m your vessel on this Earth… We want more. We wanna hate the son of a b**** so much, that we can’t see straight.

Yes, because not being able to see straight always yields great policy.

Moving on, Dunn then writes of the next TDS sufferer:

The robotic-looking Jennifer Welch has already been burned badly for telling the world how she’d like to dig up Charlie Kirk so she could “shoot him again.” That’s far from all, as this dialogue with her even more androidish mini-me Angie Sullivan reveals:

“I have so much more hate to give towards him [DJT]. I barely even tapped into it. …out of my potential for hating him 100%, I’m only 10-15% there… You have seen nothing yet. If you think our measly 10-15% of hate for this guy… you’ve never seen anything like it. Sit down and get some effin popcorn, fat[***], ‘cause we are just getting started.”

*I can’t even begin to tell Sean Hannity how much hatred I have for Donald Trump and the MAGA movement at large… This show is gonna be full-blown, nonstop haterade. Haterade for the country…”

“If you voted for Trump, I hate you…”

Then there’s the intellectual hatred. Dunn again:

Scott Galloway is one of those wannabe public intellectuals who languidly sit back and discuss the follies and failings of capitalism while keeping a close eye on their investments. (Galloway is worth at least $150 million.) Here he is talking about a brother capitalist:

“We have begun believing, through this ridiculous idolatry of innovators, that they get to live by an entirely different standard. Elon Musk is a traitor to the West. We lined up the Rosenbergs against a wall. [Actually, as many have pointed out, they were electrocuted]. This is a traitor to the West, and he should be held to the same standards as all the other traitors to the West.”

By the way, many leftists sure love that wall. One liberal I knew told me during Covid that everyone refusing “vaccination” should be put against a wall and shot. (Note: This would mean murdering approximately 63 million Americans.) A Bernie Sanders field organizer, Kyle Jurek, had “wall” fantasies, too.

Dark and Disproportionate Passion

Dunn, though, is incredulous at the anti-Musk hatred. Musk is the “electric-car guy,” once ballyhooed by the Left as a planet-saver. He also is trying to open up other planets — the whole solar system (and eventually beyond) — to humanity. What about this is execution-worthy?

Dunn also wonders about the anti-Trump animus. “They all hate Trump,” he writes. “Why? Because he won a couple elections? They all want revenge. Why? Because they lost a couple elections? It’s way over the top …”

“It’s also clear that [as with the Star Trek aliens] hatred is all they’ve got,” Dunn later adds. “This is one of the major flaws of the left.…”

For sure. With rare exception (“Medicare for all”), the Democrats have been running on hatred — TDS to be precise — for a decade. It’s not about what they want to do for you. It’s about what they want to do to you (if you’re an opponent). It once was dependence and “We’ll deliver your piece of the pie.” Too often now it’s vengeance and “We’ll deliver your pound of flesh.”

Democrats currrently even have a lawfare hit list of individuals and companies that cooperated with Trump. It’s all quite Stalinesque.

Of course, this is nothing new. Former CNN host Reza Aslan tweeted in 2019 that MAGA supporters must be “eradicated from society.” Then there was University of Graz, Austria, humanities Professor Richard Parncutt. He wrote in 2012 that global-warming denial could possibly warrant “the death penalty.”

Oh, the pope might deserve capital punishment, too (for opposing artificial contraception).

But providing Hatred 101 chapter and verse isn’t necessary. I already did that in “Violence, Inc.: A Leftist Enterprise” (and elsewhere). More interesting is a deeper issue.

Beliefs Matter

What really explains the Left’s irrational anger?

Answer: Distance from God.

There’s a reason why Jesus Christ himself, when telling us how to pray, prescribed forgiveness in the short, 66-word Lord’s prayer. To wit: “and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us….”

That is, man’s status quo had always been vindictiveness — and sheer brutality. Why, ancient pagan cultures might even portray the exacting of robust vengeance as epitomizing manliness.

And as Western civilization strays from God, it regresses back to this dark default. In fact, a leftist in 2023 even condemned forgiveness as negative, as a “religious construct.”

Whatever you call it, however, it’s sorely needed. Because its lack is precisely why the Left hates so intensely — and irrationally. For anger is like darkness: The more there is, the less you can see.

As I pointed out in the 2005 piece “Forgiveness,” angry, vengeful people inevitably view the object of their hatred through colored glasses. They then may attribute bad motives to everything the person does.

But upon forgiving, I wrote,

the darkness of that toxic emotion is lifted and supplanted by the light of a more ethereal perception. Then, sometimes, what had been unthinkable becomes apparent. We may see that the one we bore a grudge against for so long did us no wrong, or that he had only good or neutral intentions, or that the injury we fancied to be so severe is just so much spilled milk. Sometimes even, dare I say, we may find out that the fault lies with us.

“Of course, on occasion our harsh assessment may be vindicated,” I continued. But for certain is this: It’s unlikely we’ll judge someone we’re intensely angry at rightly.

When all you see is red — you may not appreciate the red, white, and blue and may glom onto the Red Menace — you won’t see reality.

As for too many Democrats, hate is surely not all they ever had. Some observers may wonder, though: Is it all they have left?