Reveling in cruelty?
The vicious cruelty of Leftists has been well-documented, and David French is dishonest to pretend only MAGA is cruel.
One of the themes that President Trump's critics (especially David French) has been pounding for the last decade is the "cruelty" of President Trump's supporters and of MAGA. And yes, this is a problem, and I can cite many examples of that. It is often exceedingly sinful and it needs to stop. What I cannot help but notice, however, is the hypocrisy of this criticism. To hear people like French, MAGA revels in needless cruelty while Leftists are compassionate. The Left might be wrong on policy, but they are not cruel. This is, quite frankly, bovine feces.
Before I start: No, this is not whataboutism. I just finished acknowledging that cruelty by President Trump and MAGA is sinful. Whataboutism seeks to defend or distract from bad behavior. I am clearly not doing that, and I have been harshly critical of this behavior on many occasions. Now, onto Leftist cruelty:
President Biden sent heavily-armed federal agents to Mark Houck's house to arrest him in a move that was completely unnecessary. That was done purely to humiliate him, frighten his children, and intimidate other abortion opponents. Vice President Kamala Harris abused her power as California's Attorney General to persecute anti-abortion activists who exposed Planned Parenthood selling aborted baby parts, trying to throw the investigators into prison. Senator Elizabeth Warren openly threatened to abuse federal power to shut down crisis pregnancy centers that provide diapers and care to women in need.
Of course, we should not forget about the vicious murder of Charlie Kirk by a homosexual furry, and how Leftists all over the country celebrated the murder of a man who committed the "crime" of talking to people who disagreed with him. We should not forget how Leftists celebrated the death of Rush Limbaugh from cancer and are too this day still taunting his brother David Limbaugh about his death. We should not forget how Leftists cheered with sadistic glee when skeptics of lockdowns, mask mandates or vaccination mandates died from COVID-19. Of course, we should not forget the glee of Leftists when someone has his life and career ruined by "cancel culture" because he said something stupid on social media. I could name many, many more examples.
Obviously, the eagerness of some in MAGA to engage in cruelty for its own sake is wrong and often sinfully so. But let's not pretend, as David French does, that one side "revels in cruelty" while the other side embraces compassion and the humanity of their opponents. That is simply not true and has never been true. We can condemn the needless cruelty from MAGA without pretending that Leftists and Democrats are totally innocent and pure.