The hard left––not liberals, to be clear––is fundamentally childlike insofar as it fuels itself and its fury on a vision of some future state of purity that can by necessity never be achieved.

The very foundation of adulthood is the acceptance of compromise and imperfection.

In turn, it's true that the far right fuels itself on a childlike nostalgia for the past perfect states that can never be achieved and in fact never existed either.

Liberals are the genuine adults, yet liberalism is being devoured from the left and right flanks at the moment.

Anyway, interacting this evening with the social media account of the far-left journal @curaffairs was a lot like interacting with one of my children. Just pure detachment from real-world constraints and circumstances.

That's why when you read their thread critiquing Obama, it reads so much like a petulant child raging about their father. Obama is the adult moving through the real world as it exists.

There is no US president that could qualify for a simple statue by their standards. There is only a future ideal president who would have had to “dismantle empire” to be so honored. https://twitter.com/curaffairs/status/1322608583348027396