OPINION:
Given that personality disorders influence the behavior and actions of many radical Democrats, it’s not surprising that those on the left have an affinity for violence. It’s usually their first course of action when something displeases them: riot, burn, pillage, tear down and destroy.
In early 2025, the Washington Examiner editorialized about this common action of the left, noting that more than half of Americans who “identify as left-of-center” think the assassination of President Trump is justifiable. A Rutgers University survey found much the same thing: Some 55% of self-identified liberals said they believed assassinating Mr. Trump was a justifiable way to pursue political goals.
As the leftists’ approval ratings have gone down, instead of working with those on the right to solve problems and improve people’s lives, they’ve only intensified their actions and violence.
A clinical example of this occurred in early 2025. Elon Musk was helping the Trump administration reduce fraud and corruption through the Department Of Government Efficiency (DOGE). The radical left did a 180 degree turn and concentrated their new hatred and violence on Musk and Tesla vehicles. Why? DOGE was getting uncomfortably close to exposing how the left had corrupted and financed many of its pet projects by fraudulently using taxpayer money.
Their minions scratched and burned Tesla vehicles in parking lots, on streets and in dealerships — because Musk was now their new enemy. It did not matter that he had considered himself a Democrat for years and developed a fully electric vehicle to save the environment, something that was the left’s total focus for decades.
All these events and behaviors leave little doubt of the overwhelming personality disorders driving the far left.
Cooperation and negotiation have been the only way humans have been able to build successful civilization. Will the left ever figure this out?
GARY HUKRIEDE
White Bear Lake, Minnesota
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