The left chooses some nifty heroes, doesn’t it?:

In a sane world, the Left’s fanatical support for Kilmar Abrego Garcia—an alleged illegal immigrant, domestic abuser, and likely MS-13 gang member—would be shocking. But given their equally obsessive solidarity with degenerates like Hamas sympathizer Mahmoud Khalil; Jordan Neely, a deranged, drug-addicted man who boarded a New York City subway and issued death threats to passengers; and Luigi Mangione, the prime suspect in the December murder of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO—it’s exactly what we’ve come to expect.

The Left’s admiration for these individuals and their eagerness to elevate them as heroes reveals not only their ideological extremism but also the glaring hypocrisy between the values they claim to uphold and the radical positions they continually embrace.

Depends on the values, though. Among the left’s values are the following: that criminals are that way because they’re oppressed, and that illegal aliens are merely “undocumented” and are – yes, you guessed it – oppressed. The left’s entire value system has to do with power and who is the oppressed and who the oppressor, and championing these people conforms with that.

Same for the leftists who love Hamas.

Nor is this new – although it has gotten worse in recent years. But remember Che Guevara. There was also Jack Henry Abbott – whom you may have forgotten. You can read about him here if your memory needs refreshing.

Then there are all those women who fall in love with imprisoned murderers, even psychopaths who have murdered women. That’s less of a political thing, but I’d wager that most of those women are not on the right.

I wrote a piece on this phenomenon – linking it to Romanticism – back in February of 2007 for PJ Media. Wonder of wonders, it still exists, although in somewhat mangled form: Please see this. An excerpt:

The lengthier excerpt includes Berlin’s assertion that the Romantics glorified those perceived as downtrodden: the failures and the minorities. Romantics didn’t just express empathy or sympathy for them, but actually elevated them to a place more worthy and more noble than the successes and the majorities.

So, who are the Romantics of today? From the foregoing discussion, it should be clear: Romanticism has found a cozy home on the Left. Romanticism (and Leftism) dictates not just sympathy for the Third World, but near-veneration of those there who combine a sense of victimhood (real or imagined) with what the poet Yeats called “passionate intensity,” which is the essence of Romanticism.

Anger is part of that passionate intensity, and it’s often a dominant part.