The Patriot Post® · Tuesday Opinion

Best of Right Opinion

• Dennis Prager: Why the Left Won’t Call Anyone ‘Animals’
• Tony Perkins: Santa Fe, the Human Heart, and the Need for God
• James Shott: Equality of Results Is an Unachievable Goal, So Stop Already!
• E. Calvin Beisner: Now’s the Time to Restore Integrity to EPA Regulatory Science
• Jeff Jacoby: Want to Fire Your Congressman? There’s a Fund for That

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Opinion in Brief

Dennis Prager: “If you want to understand the moral sickness at the heart of leftism, read the first paragraph of the most recent column by Washington Post columnist E. J. Dionne: ‘It’s never right to call other human beings "animals.” It’s not something we should even have to debate. No matter how debased the behavior of a given individual or group, no matter how much legitimate anger that genuinely evil actions might inspire, dehumanizing others always leads us down a dangerous path.’ … Anyone who refuses to ‘dehumanize’ the Nazi physicians — who, with no anesthesia, froze naked people for hours and then dropped them in boiling water to rewarm them; put people in depressurized rooms where their eardrums burst, driving them out of their minds from pain; rubbed wood shavings and ground glass into infected wounds, etc. — is, to put it very gently, profoundly morally confused. … Leftism consists almost entirely of moral-sounding platitudes — statements meant to make the person making them feel morally sophisticated. But based on their relative reactions to the sadists of the MS-13 gangs, I trust Donald Trump’s moral compass more than E. J. Dionne’s. … I once asked Rabbi Leon Radzik, a Holocaust survivor who had been in Auschwitz, what word he would use to characterize the sadistic guards in the camp. I will never forget his response: ‘They were monsters with a human face.’ Incredibly, Dionne would not agree with him.“