Why the Left Loves Criminals

During the past couple of decades, formerly fringe radical ideologies have displaced moderate “leftist” beliefs in our politics and mainstream culture. Previously, such ideologies had been largely reserved for ivory-tower intellectuals who considered anti-Americanism fashionable and morally superior. The decreasing support for the Democrat Party should come as no surprise, given its radical positions on subjects such as crime and transgenderism. American leftists often side with the most depraved criminals and blame instead society and the victims. The reasons for this absurd position run deeper than Trump-derangement syndrome. They are related to Marxist, progressive, and socialist ideology, which views history...