The ‘Disease’ That Drives The Democrats
I & I Editorial Board
April 15, 2026
Argentina President Javier Milei recently had some sharp words for the political left. But his observation is backed by more than his experience. Research makes it clear that the various strains of leftism, from today’s American Democratic Party to Democratic Socialists to green radicals to the tens of millions of voters who are attracted to progressive candidates and policies, are fueled by an emotional crisis. We beg our brothers and sisters on the left to consider why they do what they do.
Milei, a defender of laissez-faire economic policy, said he once “thought being on the left was a mental problem.” But what he eventually “discovered is that being on the left is a disease of the soul.”
It is “built on envy, hatred, resentment, unequal treatment before the law,” he said during a television appearance. Leftists and “are very violent,” and because “they have no way or arguments to answer, they go for physical violence.”
Contemporary examples of this are Antifa’s thuggery, the organized aggression toward and abuse of ICE agents and other federal officers enforcing immigration law, and the useful idiots who rioted over George Floyd’s death.
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