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The demon is a mob and the mob is demonic The Democratic Party activates mobs depends on mobs coddles mobs publicizes and celebrates mobsmdashit is the mob Sweeping in its scope and relentless in its argument Demonic explains the peculiarities of liberals as standard groupthink behavior To understand mobs is to understand liberals nbsp In her most provocative book to date Ann Coulter argues that liberals exhibit all the psychological characteristics of a mob for instance nbsp Liberal Groupthink ldquoThe same mob mentality that leads otherwise law-abiding people to hurl rocks at cops also leads otherwise intelligent people to refuse to believe anything they havenrsquot heard on NPRrdquo Liberal Schemes ldquoNo matter how mad the plan ismdashFraterniteacute the lsquoNew Soviet Manrsquo the Master Race the Great Leap Forward the Cultural Revolution Building a New Society ObamaCaremdasha mob will believe itrdquo Liberal Enemies ldquoInstead of lsquocounterrevolutionariesrsquo liberalsrsquo opponents are called lsquohatersrsquo lsquothose who seek to divide usrsquo lsquotea baggersrsquo and lsquoright-wing hate groupsrsquo Meanwhile conservatives call liberals lsquoliberalsrsquomdashand that makes them testyrdquo Liberal Justice ldquoIn the world of the liberal as in the world of Robespierre there are no crimes only criminalsrdquo Liberal Violence ldquoIf Charles Mansonrsquos followers hadnrsquot killed Roman Polanskirsquos wife Sharon Tate Clinton would have pardoned him too and hersquod probably be teaching at Northwestern Universityrdquo nbsp Citing the father of mob psychology Gustave Le Bon Coulter catalogs the Leftrsquos mob behaviors the creation of messiahs the fear of scientific innovation the mythmaking the preference for images over words the lack of morals and the casual embrace of contradictory ideas Coulter traces the history of the liberal mob to the French Revolution and Robespierrersquos revolutionaries delineating a clear distinction from Americarsquos founding fathers who simply proclaimed that they were exercising the ldquogeneral willrdquo before slaughtering their fellow citizens ldquofor the good of mankindrdquo Similarly as Coulter demonstrates liberal mobs from student radicals to white-trash racists to anti-war and pro-ObamaCare fanatics today have consistently used violence to implement their idea of the ldquogeneral willrdquo This is not the American tradition it is the tradition of Stalin of Hitler of the guillotinemdashand the tradition of the American Left As the heirs of the French Revolution Democrats have a history that consists of pandering to mobs time and again while Republicans heirs to the American Revolution have regularly stood for peaceable order Hoping to muddy this horrifying truth liberals slanderously accuse conservatives of their own crimesmdashassassination plots conspiracy theorizing political violence embrace of the Ku Klux Klan Coulter shows that the truth is the opposite Political violencemdashmob violencemdashis always a Democratic affair Surveying two centuries of mob movements Coulter demonstrates that the mob is always destructive And yet she argues beginning with the civil rights movement in the sixties Americans have lost their natural inherited aversion to mobs Indeed most Americans have no idea what they are even dealing with nbspnbspnbspnbspnbspnbspnbspnbspnbspnbspnbsp Only by recognizing the mobs and their demonic nature can America begin to defend itselfnbsp.
About the Author
ANN COULTER is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Godless, How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must), Treason, Slander, and High Crimes and Misdemeanors. She is the legal correspondent for Human Events and a syndicated columnist for Universal Press Syndicate. You can read her weekly column on her website, www.anncoulter.com.
