The Progressive Pantheon of Pathetic Heroes

Victor Davis Hanson, American Greatness

Why does the left make martyrs out of monsters? One, in postmodern America, there are

too many victims for too few victimizers. So to distinguish the one from the many requires all the more psychodramas and grammar-school dramatics. Violence and claims of racism add to the hero’s mystique. Two, the heroes are mere pawns in a larger game of “social justice” in which both useful idiots and ruthless criminals alike can advance the cause. Three, the worshipers are, for the most part, affluent and safe; the worshiped are not so tame.