It's VDH, read it all!-----What the Left Has Left for America - By Victor Davis Hanson

What the Left Has Left for America - By Victor Davis Hanson

"The present-day Left bears little resemblance to the old civil-libertarian, integrationist Democratic Party that existed from the 1960s through 2000...

On almost every issue, Democrats have repudiated their prior reverence for the Supreme Court.

• They distrust individual liberty and free expression.
• They now worship the money and clout of corporate America.
• Racial ecumenicalism and integration are seen as passé.
• There is little need for borders to protect vulnerable American workers, given the advantages of inviting in millions of poor illegal immigrants without audits.
• Democrats have transmogrified into a Soviet-style socialist binary of rich and poor, run by an elite nomenklatura that dictates its orders to its foot soldiers of the underclass. 
• An entire new left-wing vocabulary—clingers, deplorables, irredeemables, dregs, chumps, ultra-MAGA, semi-fascists—has come to express their hatred of the middle class...