The Twisted Psychology Fueling The Left’s Alliance With Terrorists

 The inmates are taking over the asylum, and the psychiatrists think it’s just wonderful.

This, followed by this, may be one of the sharpest takedowns of the lunatic left-wing fringe mindset you’ll ever encounter. Melanie Phillips doesn’t dance around the issue — she goes straight for the jugular vein of the self-delusion that defines the modern left.

Phillips teaches a masterclass in Left-Wing Victimology. It all begins with a neat little circle of vanity. Blue-haired leftists in Minneapolis, or Brooklyn, or San Francisco, or London, or Brussels tell themselves, “I’m liberal because I’m a good person; I’m a good person because I’m liberal.”

From that smug tautology, they build their entire house of cards — their frantic virtue-signaling on behalf of the “oppressed” (whether they’re in Haiti, Latin America, or any one of 50+ Muslim territories), their knee-jerk habit of blaming every load-bearing pillar of Western civilization (e.g. men, fossil fuels, Christianity, capitalism) as “oppressive,” and their allergic reaction to any facts that refuse to fit the preferred narrative.

Then came October 7, 2023.

Their cherished “oppressed victims” in Gaza, whom the left had been championing for about 75 years, revealed themselves as something far darker: the most bloodthirsty savages imaginable. Not mere killers, but perpetrators of sadistic, barbaric, depraved slaughter — raping, beheading, torturing, and burning alive babies, children, women, and elderly men.

And livestreaming every gruesome moment on GoPro cameras and iPhones. And then dancing in celebration, in the streets of Gaza. The video footage and testimony arising from that terrible day left no room for any denial, or sanitized excuses.

Let’s ignore, for a moment, the typical 250-pound left-wing fringe dweller, with blue hair and a pierced septum, working on her double major in Queer Studies and Lesbian Interpretive Dance. She’s just a Useful Idiot. (Whether she’s more useful to the Marxists or the Jihadists is anyone’s guess.)

Let’s turn our attention to the few intelligent, logical, genuinely influential members of the left, in academia, government and the so-called “news media,” who are encountering the very same cognitive dissonance within their belief system.

This is the Deep State and its allies.

For the progressive mind, October 7 was catastrophic. Admitting that the side they had elevated as righteous was actually steeped in pure evil would collapse their entire moral universe — and, more importantly, destroy their own precious self-image as virtuous souls.

As Phillips cuts to the bone: if the cause they’ve championed as the very definition of goodness turns out to be evil, then what does that make the leftists themselves? It makes them complicit in evil. That realization is what truly terrifies them — not the atrocities themselves, but what their enthusiastic support for the perpetrators of those atrocities reveals about their own character.

So what do they do? They perform intellectual contortions that would impress a Cirque du Soleil acrobat. They insist black is white, justice is injustice, oppression is resistance, and self-defense (by Israel, or any other Western nation) is genocide. Reality be damned; the narrative must not just be rescued, but reinforced against any further breaches of its defenses.

The primary tool for this escape hatch is classic psychological projection. There is no more effective way to deflect blame than to accuse your victims of the very crimes being committed against them.

Hence the flood of accusations labeling Israelis as “genocidal” and “Nazis.” If the Jews defending themselves are the new Nazis, then the liberal West is off the hook. No guilt. No uncomfortable association with barbarism. Just sweet, cleansing moral absolution.

This is why the “genocide” smear against Israel isn’t merely wrong or offensive — it is psychologically essential for those hurling it. Without that lie, they would be forced to stare directly at the horrors unleashed by their favored “oppressed” peoples in Gaza, southern Lebanon, and any other hellhole the Western left has ideologically adopted.

And then the Western leftists would be forced to confront their own role in enabling such horrors.

The left cannot face what their pet classes of “victims” actually did on that terrible day in Israel — and on every other day when an illegal Latino immigrant rapes and murders an American girl, or a Muslim “migrant” rapes and murders a Swedish, or British, or German girl, or a pair of Muslim “migrants” guns down Australian Jews celebrating on a beach.

Instead, the Western left must frantically recast the real victims as Nazis (if they’re Jewish), or pretend they never even existed (if they’re other Western victims of the left’s preferred “victims”). This isn’t simple ignorance or stupidity. It’s a desperate act of psychological survival — a headlong flight from the crushing weight of cognitive dissonance.

The Western left has built its identity on a foundation of moral vanity and selective blindness. October 7, Bondi Beach, and all these other acts of brutal savagery ripped away the blindfold. 

Rather than adjust their vision to reality, the lunatics of the left-wing fringe — and the handful of logical lefties, in academia, government and the media, who carefully instruct them about what to think and believe — have doubled down on the delusion.

This is the political version of the psychiatric approach to gender dysphoria. As I’ve previously observed, rather than adjust these “transgender” patients’ deluded expectations to reality, Western psychiatrists have prescribed life-altering pharmaceutical and surgical efforts, to adjust the patients’ bodies to fit into their delusions.

So in these two areas, the inmates are taking over the asylum, and the psychiatrists think it’s just wonderful.

Phillips has laid it out with clinical precision: this isn’t just politics any more. It’s a pathology. As I wrote earlier, it’s a mass psychosis. And until the lefties are willing to confront the evil they’ve midwifed, and admit that they’re dead wrong, their madness will only deepen.

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2026/04/the_twisted_psychology_fueling_the_left_s_alliance_with_terrorists.html