The Progressive Pantheon of Pathetic Heroes
The left’s “heroes” are too often liars, criminals, or violent radicals—canonized not for virtue, but for their usefulness to the progressive cause.
By Victor Davis Hanson
September 1, 2025
American left-wing heroes are proving to be a creepy bunch.
So what do some of the most renowned “resistance” left-wing heroes have in common other than shared hatred of conservative America?
They are either criminals, pathological liars, or self-described performance-art victims.
Take Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the current face of progressive resistance to the enforcement of federal immigration law.
No one questions that Garcia had previously received deportation orders before he was re-arrested by ICE.
No one argues that his current wife, Vasquez Sura, had in the past successfully petitioned for at least two protective restraining orders against Abrego Garcia—to stop his violent beatings and his manic destruction of household items.
In the old Democratic Party, the worst allegation possible was to be cast as a beater of women.
No one contests that in 2022, Garcia was pulled over in Tennessee for speeding and recklessly veering out of his lane.
He was then found to have an invalid driver’s license. He was accompanied by eight illegal aliens without IDs. And his vehicle was registered to an imprisoned and likely human trafficker. Garcia had been variously recognized in deportation hearings as a member of the violent and lethal MS-13 gang.
Yet when ICE began to deport him, the left went ballistic and constructed him as some sort of civil rights saint.
Senators tossed drinks with the illegal alien.
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