AND NOW A WORD FROM THE LATE CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS: “In order to begin a speech or to ask a question from the floor, all that would be necessary by way of preface would be the words: ‘Speaking as a…’ Then could follow any self-loving description…There are many ways of dating the moment when the Left lost or—I would prefer to say—discarded its moral advantage, but this was the first time that I was to see the sellout conducted so cheaply.”
Christopher Hitchens identifies the creation of identity politics as the moment the left lost. I wonder if he imagined the damage it would still be causing nearly sixty years later. pic.twitter.com/IBsbuqH7n4
— Josh Howie (@joshxhowie) May 25, 2026