by Pedro Gonzalez Michael Anton recently joined Tucker Carlson on Fox News to discuss an American Greatness column, “The Gillibrand Standard.” Anton argues that the Left poses a grave threat to our institutions, our country, and to decency and truth itself. Toward the end of the segment, Carlson asked, what does it say about those who claim that impartiality does not matter? “That power is everything,” Anton replied. Carlson concluded by remarking that the leftist drive for power for the sake of power is the product of a “secular worldview.” But I do not believe that one can understand the Left as simply secular. Indeed, one might say that the Left’s outlook is profoundly religious. Zealously so, in fact. Modern leftists could be said to be the illegitimate but filiated children of the Taborites, a faction of Radical Hussites, who destroyed churches under the military leadership of Jan Žižka in the early 1400s. They were also were also communistic, puritanical, and bent toward radical democracy and utopianism. But there is a far more sinister theology at play here. The first words uttered by Satan in book IV, line 110, of Paradise Lost are nonsensical on their face: “Evil be…
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