It’s not just self-delusion, which is frighteningly common among our political class (and at which she also excels), but a thoroughly complete delusion about the entire universe around her.
I’m not sure I can name an equivalent from the left. The sort of folks who might be so completely wrong about everything are consigned to the minor socialist and communist parties, never making it close to the mainstream — though perhaps some echoes of an equivalent delusion are present among the new crop of independent MPs.
I’m actually growing fond of seeing it. Not her, of course, but of her place in our political discourse. Her conduct on election night was hilarious, and her flirtations with American politics in particular since have been wild. I’d rather she go away entirely, but in a perverse way I’m glad she’s providing such entertainment.
The left has people like this: tankies. Shallow loyalists who don’t really grasp that reality exists beyond who-says. It’s just - people in that mindset are endemic to the right, because a hierarchy-driven worldview maps neatly onto consolidating power and mumble mumble it’ll work out for the best, whereas you have to go pretty far around the bend to make it fit egalitarian self-direction.
Leftists and progressives have their crazies. The right puts them in charge.
Her level of delusion is remarkable.
It’s not just self-delusion, which is frighteningly common among our political class (and at which she also excels), but a thoroughly complete delusion about the entire universe around her.
I’m not sure I can name an equivalent from the left. The sort of folks who might be so completely wrong about everything are consigned to the minor socialist and communist parties, never making it close to the mainstream — though perhaps some echoes of an equivalent delusion are present among the new crop of independent MPs.
I’m actually growing fond of seeing it. Not her, of course, but of her place in our political discourse. Her conduct on election night was hilarious, and her flirtations with American politics in particular since have been wild. I’d rather she go away entirely, but in a perverse way I’m glad she’s providing such entertainment.
The left has people like this: tankies. Shallow loyalists who don’t really grasp that reality exists beyond who-says. It’s just - people in that mindset are endemic to the right, because a hierarchy-driven worldview maps neatly onto consolidating power and mumble mumble it’ll work out for the best, whereas you have to go pretty far around the bend to make it fit egalitarian self-direction.
Leftists and progressives have their crazies. The right puts them in charge.