A Republican critique of elite left-wing hypocrisy, showing how race-based school discipline, cover-ups of student violence, and the defense of socialist regimes expose a patronizing, dangerous worldview.
The American Left has developed a habit of moral preening that too often masks outright contempt for ordinary standards and ordinary people. In school districts from Colorado to Texas, policies and practices now excuse damaging behavior by painting it as culturally appropriate. That mindset protects misbehavior and leaves victims and teachers to pick up the pieces while administrators claim moral superiority.
In one district, disciplinary leniency for Black students has been formalized under the label of being “culturally responsive,” a policy that America First Legal called discriminatory. In another case a student named Aundre Matthews allegedly stabbed a classmate, and reports suggest the district concealed his lengthy disciplinary record. Those incidents fit a pattern: when outcomes are bad, the preferred explanation is race, not accountability.
Left-leaning administrators treat standards of behavior as negotiable when the alleged offender is a person of color, and they turn whistleblowers and concerned parents into villains. The result is not compassion but cynicism, because the policy protects the privileged narrative rather than the safety of students. Teachers who push back are accused of racism for insisting on basic order.
This same smugness shows up in the Left’s approach to immigration and labor. After President Trump prioritized stronger border enforcement, liberal elites warned Americans we would lose essential workers for menial jobs. That stance values cheap labor while ignoring the rule of law and national sovereignty, and it reveals a transactional compassion that betrays real working people.
These attitudes are reflected overseas where the Left defends totalitarian regimes when it suits a narrative. Venezuela offers a hard lesson in what happens when socialism takes hold: in 25 years, socialists took Venezuela from one of the wealthiest nations in the world to one of the poorest, where more than 70 percent of the population lives in poverty and resources — including medicine and food — are scarce. More than eight million Venezuelans were forced to flee or face persecution, starvation, or death.
Many affluent Western leftists, though, insist they know better than Venezuelans themselves about what freedom or democracy looks like. Chicago’s mayor dismissed Maduro’s ouster as merely a grab for oil, writing, “The illegal actions by the Trump administration have nothing to do with defending the Venezuelan people; they are solely about oil and power,” Johnson wrote. “As we have said for the past two years, the dehumanization of migrants from Venezuela, and of immigrants generally, by the Far Right has laid the groundwork for military action in Central and South America. I strongly condemn the Trump administration’s inhumane treatment of migrants in our country and this illegal regime change abroad. In Chicago, we will continue to uphold the values of peace, diplomacy, and mutual respect for all people.”
That statement is a study in projection, given the Left’s longstanding excuses for authoritarian allies when they advance ideological goals. When socialist regimes threaten the livelihood and safety of millions, the reflex is not solidarity with the suffering but condemnation of those who act to restore freedom. The Left’s selective outrage exposes a political calculus, not principle.
The domestic and international examples connect. The same people who champion victimhood narratives at home turn their backs on people crushed by socialism abroad. They insist they are listening to “lived experience” even as they dismiss the demonstrated suffering of Venezuelans, or deny the practical need for school discipline and community safety.
We should call out this strain of elitist racism for what it is: a belief that certain groups must be coddled because they are supposedly incapable of meeting common standards, and that wealthy virtue signalers know better than those who live under socialism abroad. That posture is not moral leadership; it is condescension wrapped in ideology.
Voters and parents deserve policies that protect safety, promote accountability, and respect sovereignty, not moral cover for failed experiments or bureaucratic excuses. The lesson from these stories is plain: ideology should not excuse harm, and a respect for human dignity demands that we hold leaders and systems accountable when they fail the people they claim to serve.
The Venezuelan people deserved to be freed of the shackles of “warm collectivism,” and decent people everywhere should stand with them instead of with the racist Left, who long to keep them oppressed. And voters in America, of all races, should look at what the Left is doing and make a point never to vote them into office again. As I said the other day, it’s very easy to vote them in and damned near impossible to remove them.
