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There can be no doubt that anti-Americanism has become a kind of litmus test for progressive thinking and identity in Europe and the world (including the United States itself). Just as any self-respecting progressive and leftist in Europe or America, regardless of which political shade, simply had to be on the side of the Spanish Republic in the 1930s, antiAmericanism and anti-Zionism have become the requisite proof of possessing a progressive conviction today.

2013 was a year of myths falling apart. The myth of President Obama - a myth in which Obama was a messianic figure descending to bequeath health care, equality, and brotherhood on mankind - imploded. The myth of an America embracing the leftist social agenda collapsed.

At the movies — in the arts — conservative reality almost always comes disguised as fantasy whereas leftist fantasy comes disguised as reality!

A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy.

We say it all the time: the leftist media is inciting violence and hate by calling everybody a racist and a white supremacist.

Leftist law breaking, rule breaking, violence, and disruption have already marred the public Kavanaugh confirmation hearings.

Era de izquierdas, pero ahora no lo soy tanto porque tengo ojos y oídos

This mentality is by no means exclusive to the Right. There is a long leftist tradition of seeing continental slavishness as a threat to English liberty, and of imagining England as the only green and pleasant land in which the new Jerusalem could be built.

If you hope for any sort of dialogue and unity with all factions on the vaguely leftist or radical side of politics, you must cease from silly verbal abuse. If you don't want it, then we go on as we are, fractious and impotent.

Kundera says that what makes a leftist (of any kind—socialists, communists, Trotskyites, left-liberals, and so on) a leftist is a shared belief that humanity is on a "Grand March" toward Progress: "The Grand March is the splendid march on the road to brotherhood, equality, justice, happiness; it goes on and on, obstacles notwithstanding, for obstacles there must be if the march is to be the Grand March.

El líder populista, después de malgastar su herencia priista, regresa a su origen político para disfrutar del festín electoral de bienvenida. Como el hijo pródigo, retorna al seno familiar del nacionalismo revolucionario después de haber pasado unos años pecaminosos arrejuntado con la izquierda. Se regenera su fidelidad originaria y atrae los votos de priistas.

desde que López Obrador fuera candidato a la presidencia en 2006 y 2012, se reveló claramente como un político conservador. Pero su aureola populista confundió a muchos, que lo siguieron tomando como un líder de izquierda, incluso radical, amenazador para la derecha y esperanzador para los progresistas.

el proyecto de López Obrador no pecaba por su radicalismo de izquierda, sino por su ineficacia: además, tenía un carácter confusamente reaccionario, más inquietante por sus incongruencias y embrollos que por su extremismo.

La oposición de izquierda... creyó necesario reconstruir la anatomía nacional, volver al nacionalismo revolucionario original (cardenista e incluso zapatista) y desarrolló una actitud populista de desconfianza ante la democracia electoral.

Otro sector de la izquierda ha quedado aplastado por el abrumador conservadurismo de López Obrador. Desde hace años he explicado que este líder populista es un conservador que no tiene nada de izquierda. Y hoy se ha vuelto francamente reaccionario. En su partido ya casi no se perciben los signos vitales de la izquierda. Predomina allí un espíritu restaurador que sueña con volver al priismo de los años sesenta y setenta.

The new pornography industry is held, by leftist males, to be inherently radical. Sex is claimed by the Left as a leftist phenomenon; the trade in women is most of sex. The politics of liberation are claimed as indigenous to the Left by the Left; central to the politics of liberation is the mass-marketing of material that depicts women being used as whores.

Whenever there's smoke and the leftist media aren't calling 911, that means there's a huge fire raging out of control somewhere. But

Ya se sabía cómo funcionaban las operaciones de desestabilización en América latina. Aunque ahora, en los tiempos de un nuevo consenso de Washington, el cerco financiero a AMLO se complementaba con advertencias de que en realidad aquel presidente de izquierdas no representaba los intereses ni siquiera de los más necesitados.

Political correctness is a thing of leftist radicals.

I must warn you right here and now that I am a 'wet leftie,' a 'leftist' and also a member of the 'bleeding heart liberal left.' I had no say in it whatsoever. I woke up one morning, and these things were tattooed across my forehead.

Those indoctrinated by leftist thinking become largely incapable of making accurate moral judgments.

Once the economy appeared to be recovering, a powerful public relations campaign was mounted. The New Deal was depicted as the creature of leftist forces bent on transforming the country's economy.

Paul believed American greatness and the ghosts of that greatness surrounded him. But who could publicly express such a belief and not be ridiculed as a patriotic fool? Paul believed in his fellow Americans, in their extraordinary decency, in their awesome ability to transcend religion, race, and class, but what leftist could state such things and ever hope to get laid by any other lefty?

Leftist reactions are always histrionic.