The dark underbelly of leftism is envy — the revenge of the mediocre on the exceptional. Orwell observed the left hates the rich more than it loves the poor, a hatred now extended to nations. The West’s achievements stand as a rebuke to communist terror states. Dalrymple warned that sentimentality is the midwife of brutality, and leftism drips with it. What poses as justice is bitterness clothed in emotion, collapsing under logic, fact and reality.
