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Wake-up Lefties, this is the time to pay attention. The Democratic Party is being outlawed by the actual outlaws. Aint that a blip?

To the modern MAGA mind, the Left isn’t just a political ideology - it’s the enemy of White people. That’s the translation, no “JohnnyQuest” decoder ring required. “Leftist,” in the small minded descendants of Archie Bunker, means anyone who isn’t a participant in the illusion of white innocence - the Black, the Brown, the queer, “jezebels,” (feisty, spicy ball-busting women) the immigrants, the indigenous, the woke, the uppity, the unafraid.

The Left is, in the American lexicon, a stand-in for everyone descended from the people once conquered, colonized, enslaved, or erased by European and American imperialism. And that’s what terrifies the Right - that history might finally have a memory. That the descendants of those who bled for the Empire’s riches might stop forgiving, stop apologizing, and start demanding payment in full.

MAGA fears “The Big Paypack.”

White America isn’t terrified because it’s being oppressed - it’s terrified because everyone else has finally read the receipts. The paranoia isn’t new; it’s inherited - passed down like heirloom silver and family Bibles, from the plantation to the penthouse. Deep down, they know the scoreboard’s rigged. They know the wealth, the land, the legacy - all built on someone else’s bones: the African enslaved, the Native dispossessed, the Mexican displaced, the Asian interned, the Islander annexed, the Puerto Rican overruled. They know every skyscraper sits atop a stolen acre, every institution stands on a silenced scream.

That’s why they clutch guns and Bibles - not out of faith, but out of fear that justice might one day knock back. Trumpism, MAGA, the whole red-hat crusade - it’s not about patriotism. It’s about preemption. It’s the supermarket tantrum of an immature, spoiled bratish dominant class that senses its borrowed power expiring. Because when the victims of history start recognizing the architecture of their oppression - when the exploited, excluded, and erased start seeing how neatly the system was wired to keep them beneath it - that’s when the empire panics.

Trump’s America, their contempt and hostility isn’t born from persecution, but from guilt - from the long, bloody awareness that every advantage they’ve ever had came from someone else’s suffering.

Let’s call it what it is: the Left, Liberals, Democrats, Progressives, Socialists and Revolutionaries - those so-called enemies of whiteness - have become cosmically naïve about the firestorm barreling toward them. Politically, socially, economically, and culturally, we have mistaken the fire alarm for a patio wind chime, sipping lattes while the GOP and its zealots draft the American version of Mein Kampf in policy form: Project 2025.

The Left still believes in “norms.” Still worships parchment like it’s fireproof. Still thinks a debate, a tweet, and a few yard signs can outmaneuver a theocratic army armed with billionaires, Bibles, and bullets. MAGA isn’t playing politics - it’s waging divine war, rewriting America not as a democracy but as a white Christian kingdom wrapped in a flag and baptized in grievance. And right in the center of that delusion stands the smiling brigade of enablers: white women clutching crosses and Panera cups, voting for their abusers because power feels safer than equality. They cry feminism until Election Day, then pull the lever for patriarchy like it’s Pilates. Their loyalty is not to liberation but to hierarchy - the idea that even under oppression, they’ll still be closer to the throne than the field.

And that hierarchy has a headmaster: the white man who treats his country the way he treats his home - as something he owns, disciplines, and keeps fearful. It’s the same script: bully, gaslight, control the money, then call the bruises “family business.” Trump even said it out loud recently, brushing off rising assaults as “domestic stuff - guys roughing up women, no biggie.” That wasn’t a slip; it was a sermon. Because that’s the culture he embodies and sells - a world where men rule through intimidation and women stay silent from dependence. The same instinct that makes a husband grab his wife’s wrist too hard fuels the way white power grips this nation’s throat. When white men keep their women afraid, the whole pyramid below - people of color, immigrants, queer folks - learns the lesson: step out of line and you’ll get the same treatment. The household is the rehearsal for the state.

Band! One more time: The same instinct that makes a husband grab his wife’s wrist too hard fuels the way white power grips this nation’s throat

Meanwhile, the Left tweets “democracy is on the ballot” as if that phrase alone could stop fascism’s march. They act as though hashtags are helmets. They host panels while the Right hosts militias. They still think empathy is kryptonite to cruelty. It’s not. They’re debating vocabulary while the other side debates which freedoms to outlaw first. And as they fumble for civility, the Right is already rewriting textbooks, banning books, gerrymandering maps, and packing courts. The Left’s strategy is “vote blue no matter who.” The Right’s strategy is “own the machinery of the state and bend it into a weapon.” Guess which one wins wars?

And let’s not forget the professional traitors - the Uncle Toms, the corporate mascots, and the career opportunists of color who think proximity to whiteness is protection. The ones who appear on Fox News to validate white rage in exchange for a seat at the table, even as that table is on fire. Then there are the Mexicans who thought they were white - until they learned that “build the wall” wasn’t a metaphor. They cheered the cruelty until the cruelty called their name. America has a long tradition of recruiting its own victims to help carry the whip. And this, too, the Left refuses to confront head-on, terrified of appearing “divisive.”

Economically, the con is centuries old. MAGA’s puppet-masters - the Heritage Foundation, ALEC, the Federalist Society - feed followers fairy tales about small government while stealing everything that isn’t nailed down. Project 2025 isn’t policy; it’s plunder with a moral clause. Education? Voucherized. Health care? Monetized. The womb? Nationalized. The Left stands at a lectern explaining marginal tax rates while the Right is busy baptizing oligarchy as “freedom.” And still, white women line up to vote for the same men who strip their autonomy, because racial hierarchy tastes sweeter than justice.

Culturally, the Left keeps quoting Martin Luther King Jr. while the Right is quoting Moses with an AR slung over his shoulder. America was never a rational democracy - it’s a mythology factory, and the Right writes the scripts: “Family values.” “Faith.” “Freedom.” The Left responds with think pieces, PowerPoints, and Netflix documentaries. MAGA weaponized nostalgia - the fantasy of 1950s white male dominance, sanctified by Jesus and enforced by AR-15s - and the Left countered with nuance.

Yo man. Say baby, you don’t fight holy war with a hashtag.

We’ve been here before. It’s 1877 again, only with better graphics. The Union won the Civil War but surrendered the moral victory to the Confederacy’s ghost. The “Compromise” that ended Reconstruction let the South rebrand treason as tradition and transformed defeat into the “Lost Cause.” America chose reconciliation over justice, silence over truth. And now, 150 years later, the Left is making the same fatal deal - whispering about “healing the divide” while the other side reloads.

Project 2025 is the new Compromise of 1877 - a handshake with fascism in exchange for temporary calm. And who’s holding the door this time? White women in yoga pants, Uncle Toms in tailored suits, and honorary whites who still think assimilation is salvation. The same collaborators, just with iPhones and ring lights.

If this all feels combustible - it should. Because it’s 1968 again too, that cursed year of assassinations and uprisings, when America’s saints were shot in public and her streets answered back in fire. Picture it like a reel of history flickering in black and white: King’s blood on a Memphis balcony, Bobby Kennedy’s echo in a hotel kitchen, cities from Chicago to D.C. engulfed in smoke and rage. The country convulsed - not just with grief, but with realization.

The dream wasn’t dead, but it had been murdered. And now, here we are, half a century later, replaying the reel in full color. The assassinations aren’t bullets … yet; they’re policies. Voting rights, reproductive rights, truth itself, all executed in broad daylight. The riots are quieter but no less furious: a million micro-explosions of despair, misinformation, and outrage. The same flame of injustice burns, only this time the match is lit from inside the White House.

The Left fears for the lives of The Obamas, the Harris Family, The Bidens, The Clintons.

Picture it - a fictional news summary from our near future: “Nation in crisis as President-for-Life signs new emergency order dissolving voting oversight and reassigning the Department of Justice to Homeland Security command. Protests erupt outside the White House. Drones patrol over Washington. Several cities declare curfews. Officials call for calm.” The chyron at the bottom reads: “Markets stable.” Because that’s the trade-off - democracy for Dow Jones. The same cynical exchange that’s haunted this country since the first cotton stock hit Wall Street.

And through it all, the Left sits in think tanks and Zoom calls, comforted by the illusion that decency will eventually triumph. They still think Trump was an accident, not a prophecy. They thought January 6 was the climax, not the pilot. They underestimate how many Americans want an autocrat - not despite his cruelty, but because of it. They keep polishing civility like a shield, unaware it’s made of glass.

The real tragedy isn’t just the Left’s naïveté - it’s their arrogance. They believed America had matured past fascism, that education and empathy were vaccines against hate, that a few indictments could save democracy.

They believe the system will self-correct, as if the system itself isn’t being rewritten line by line by theocrats, billionaires, and grinning sociopaths. The truth is ugly: the GOP doesn’t want to govern - it wants to rule. And until the Left understands that they’re not debating policy but fighting a holy, racial, and economic crusade - aided by white female complicity, minority betrayal, and elite liberal softness - they will keep losing. Losing with dignity. Losing with civility. Losing with their hands politely folded while the lights go out, the Constitution burns, and the choir sings one last chorus of “This is not who we are.”

But this is who we are - and who we’ve always been. The difference is that now, the devil doesn’t hide in the shadows. He signs executive orders in broad daylight, waving the Bible like a weapon, smiling through the flames as America burns slow and pretty - to the rhythm of its own denial.

Wake-up Lefties!!!





BlackCommentator.com Columnist, DesiCortez: Born in Alabama’s contradictions, forged in South-Central L.A., rooted in Denver at fifteen—Desi Cortez cuts with a blunt edge: columnist (BlackCommentator, BlackAthlete, NegusWhoRead), KOA firebrand, Rocky Mountain News board voice, 24-year public-school realist. He writes like he lives—through the noise with razor truths on race, politics, and sport. Contact Mr. Cortez and BC.