Craaaazy Train

Steve Sailer on the Democrats' coalition of whackjobs:

As I’ve been pointing out for a decade, the Republicans do best among the married and content, while the Democrats prosper from the lonely and aggrieved...

The embarrassing events of recent weeks have reiterated another problem the Democrats face with trying to assemble peripheral people into a majority (beyond the obvious difficulties of reconciling the interests and values of, say, black church ladies and Wellesley College gender-queers). This fringe coalition is fragile in another sense as well: if the underlying engine of your politics is hate, you are going to attract and excite a lot of psychologically fragile fringe personalities. And they tend to repel the normal and healthy.

The “social justice” brand appeals to the unhappy and unsettled. More than a few aren’t quite right in the head: the criminal, the paranoid, the fantasists, and those obsessed with obscure ancestral vendettas. By working so hard to lure in individuals motivated by their anger at cisgendered straight white males, the progressives wind up encouraging and highlighting borderline personalities...

Put more simply, liberal Democrats are crazier than a bagful of wet cats. No great revelation, I know, but it's worth reiterating from time to time. You might occasionally be swayed into believing that the American Left is composed of rational adults who simply have differing viewpoints; such is not the case.