Back in 2018 I started writing that the left was best understood as a reaction against the modern Double Revolution in science and the modern economy. I coined the idea that the left was a Great Reaction back to the past. At the time I thought I was being a bit naughty, telling our educated progressive friends that they weren’t progressive at all, but the real reactionaries of the modern world. I made up a maxim: Socialism is a return to slavery; the welfare state is a return to feudalism; identity politics is neo-tribalism; reparations is neo-vengeance; activism a return to revolution... helpless victims are a return to sacrifice; totalitarianism is a return to the scapegoat; social justice is good old loot and plunder. I had no idea that in 2020 the helpless transgender victim Vicky -- formerly Willie -- would be unctiously interviewed on NPR advocating In Defense of Looting. And what is the three months of mostly peaceful protest in Portland, Oregon, but a...(Read Full Article)