or Marx Begets TDS
JAN 29, 2026
This post is about the relationship between Karl Marx, Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS), and the kabuki ICE/immigration-indignation theater being performed across the country by a cast of brainwashed, pathologically misguided — and, in some cases, suicidal — lunatics. But I’m not going to start there.
I’m going to start with the warped ideology and the pernicious psychology behind it, which is the warped ideology and pernicious psychology of the Democrat Party since that’s what’s fomenting all this bullshit. More specifically, when you refuse to observe or enforce the law long enough, as Democrats do — and when you let every special interest group, every entitled crank, and every squeaky wheel claim anything and everything they want is a right, all in the interest of getting in office or staying there, as Democrats do — you end up right where we are.
As an indication of the prevailing ideology and psychology to which the nation is presently subject thanks to the Democrat Party, we need read no more and no farther than the piece James Carville published as a Guest Essay in The New York Times in November of last year. If you don’t have a subscription to The New York Times, you’re ahead of the game. And the following excerpt is all you really need to read from Carville’s unhinged rant anyway:
It is time for Democrats to embrace a sweeping, aggressive, unvarnished, unapologetic and altogether unmistakable platform of pure economic rage. This is our only way out of the abyss … raging against the rigged, screwed-up, morally bankrupt system that gave us the cost of living crisis must be the centerpiece of every Democratic campaign in America … We have to present ourselves as adamantly, even angrily, opposing the system that is preventing younger rural voters from buying homes, jacking up utility bills and keeping grocery prices at astronomical levels. It is vital that Democrats, with some big ol’ cojones, rail against the unjust economic system that has created these conditions.
A few comments, if I may, recognizing Carville lost what might have been left of his marble collection well before he joined the Clinton campaign in 1992. Now he just hangs around and makes noise because people let him.
First, the Democrat rage Carville calls for is exactly what’s brought us everything from the destructive riots of 2020 (which the Democrats positioned, of course, as peaceful protests) to the social, economic, and educational devastation of the COVID lockdowns, from the ongoing disaster of the Biden administration’s open borders to the lawless obstruction of ICE agents in Minnesota and beyond.
Second, I think it’s generous and candid (if not ironic and remarkably un-self-aware) for Carville to acknowledge that the cost of living crisis must be the centerpiece of every Democratic campaign in America. It is. In fact, economics and the cost-of-living crises have been the centerpiece of every Democratic campaign and administration since Woodrow Wilson, at least. And the Democrats have consistently left economic disaster in their wake after every administration.
Third, adamantly, even angrily, opposing the system is what Democrats do, always and everywhere. The Party of Outrage poses as the Party of Compassion — and gets away with it. It’s rich that Carville blames the inability of younger rural voters to buy homes (I don’t know why he singled them out), the existence of cost-prohibitive utility bills, the COVID-fallout unaffordability of grocery prices, and the unjust economic system that has created these conditions on anything other than the inflation created by Joe Biden and his anonymous handlers. Crackpot Carville would have needed some big ol’ cojones, indeed, had he been looking in a mirror when he wrote that tripe.
Keep this in mind: Carville’s comments constitute neither strategy nor tactics. Rather, they telegraph the nature of the Democrat Party — its dark heart, its soulless need for control, its rabid voraciousness for power, its virulent disdain for the rule of law, its grifter’s gift for mesmerizing the weak and the unwitting, its deliberate ignorance of the past, and its increasingly desperate, destructive, improvisational, and unconscionable promises of an impossible Utopia.
“Any questions?”
Two Sets of Rules
If you’re among those disregarding the law, perpetrating all manner of nefarious skullduggery, supporting or applauding those who do, or suffering in other ways from Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS), you likely don’t know and surely don’t care Barack “Don’t Call Me Barry” Obama deported millions more illegal aliens than President Trump has. Bill “Sgt. Schultz” Clinton did, too. Watch this short video. If you do suffer from TDS, it’ll jar your preserves.
What’s the difference between what Slick Willie and Barry did and what President Trump is doing? I’ll give you a hint: It’s starts with n and ends with othing. Period. But those two charlatans were popular with suckers and the mainstream media. President Trump is not. End of story.
You can find all kinds of evidence to verify what Barry did and said. I know because I looked it up. You could, too. But if you have TDS, you won’t. To keep you from being intellectually taxed, I’ve provided examples for you here, here, here, here, here, here, and … well, you get the idea. And since it’s quite probable you can find even more of that evidence if you’re inclined — and if you’re inclined to believe it when you find it — at risk of having your feelings hurt — you can look yourself.
I’ve developed a theory that posits people who say, “Love is blind,” haven’t studied ideology. If they did, they’d know ideology is even less rational and even more emotional than love. It comprises deeply held beliefs, utterly unexamined convictions, immutable core values, and an unsubstantiated but completely unshakeable sense of right and wrong the ideologue holds as objective truth. Those beliefs, convictions, values, and senses of right and wrong are immune to empirical evidence since the ideologue will not engage with data that challenges or belies them.
The term, ideology, was coined by the French philosopher Antoine-Louis-Claude, Comte Destutt de Tracy (his friends called him Steve) in 1796 to denote the science of ideas, the rational foundation for the political and moral thought — the system of beliefs, values, and principles — that shapes how individuals or groups understand, make decisions, and behave in the world. It was subsequently hijacked to become a decidedly non-systematic, non-scientific, and wholly arbitrary but dogmatic approach to justifying any word, deed, or cockamamie notion anybody has about anything — without reason, evidence, or proof of its validity. From communism to climate change, from counting the votes of dead people to men competing in women’s sports, et al., the Agenda-Driven Ideology Train rolls on.
This man was given the Presidential Rank Award for Distinguished Service by Barack Obama in 2015. More recently, he’s been voted Most Worthy of Being Shot and Pissed On by Democrats, their media lapdogs, and their devotees in anarchy.
On Your Marx, Get Set …
All of these Democrat/leftist shenanigans are derivations of and variations on garden-variety Marxism. I read Uncle Karl in college. But I don’t think about him often, and I never write about him. It’s at least arguable we wouldn’t be in the soup we’re in now and the world wouldn’t have seen and continue to see quite so much horror, oppression, mayhem, and death if he’d followed his father’s wishes and become a plumber (Klempner). And it certainly didn’t help that Hegel kept egging him on.
In any case, here’s the short list of perversions of his writings:
- His theory that history is driven by class conflict was distorted in practice to justify the elimination of political opposition. In socialist and communist states, dissenters were labeled, bourgeois, counter-revolutionaries, and ICE agents, fostering purges, repression, public displays of ignorance, traffic obstruction, loud profanity, and frequent, carefully aimed expectorations.
- Intended to be a transitional state to suppress capitalism, Marx’s Dictatorship of the Proletariat was twisted into a permanent one-party dictatorship, which Democrats, their brainless acolytes, and their sycophants in the media interpreted as their birthright, leading to Cancel Culture, Advanced Whining, rioting, opening the border, and attacking ICE Agents.
- Marx’s call to abolish private ownership of the means of production led to inefficiency, shortages, the suppression of individual initiative, chuckleheads saying things like, “You didn’t build that,” the serving of elite liberals’ interests, rather than those of the working class, and positioning ICE Agents as the enemy and attacking them.
- Marx’s critique of ideology has been weaponized to weaponize the weaponization of liberal propaganda and the legal system. It’s also been bent to promote censorship, the suppression of free speech, the persecution of religious groups, and the exploitation of morons to convince them to attack ICE Agents.
- Marx‘s writings about the ostensible alienating qualities of capitalism were abominated to justify liberalism’s role in reshaping consciousness, suppressing personal freedoms in favor of group identities, and creating a culture of fear in which hysteria was used to cause panic about things like climate change and COVID — and to incite attacks on ICE Agents.
- Marx’s writings about State Ownership as Public Property were bastardized to justify liberals’ seizing control of wealth and resources, relieving people of the burdens and responsibilities of private ownership, and giving them the leisure time and freedom to attack ICE Agents.
Since brevity is the soul of wit, I’m going to leave it to Sir Roger Scruton (1944 – 2020), an English philosopher, writer, and social critic to break this down more succinctly:
It is not the truth of Marxism that explains the willingness of intellectuals to believe it, but the power that it confers on intellectuals in their attempts to control the world. And since, as Swift says, it is futile to reason someone out of a thing that he was not reasoned into, we can conclude that Marxism owes its remarkable power to survive every criticism to the fact that it is not a truth-directed but a power-directed system of thought.
There it is. Those applying two sets of rules will never concede that’s what they’re doing. And they won’t be reasoned out of the TDS they weren’t reasoned into. Their efforts are, indeed, power-directed in an attempt to control the world — or at least the parts of it against which they can rebel mindlessly and lawlessly in the United States.
We’ll be clean when their work is done
We’ll be eternally free, yes. and eternally young
What a beautiful world this will be
What a glorious time to be free
What a beautiful world this will be
What a glorious time to be free
They’ll sing the United States to Hell if we let them.
We can’t let them.