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Mobs of visibly unhealthy antifa activists attacked a Christian concert in Seattle, injuring several people and sending one police officer to the hospital. The attackers effectively received an endorsement from the mayor of Seattle. As you recall, a man from Massachusetts was arrested at the Capitol after admitting that he planned to set fire to the conservative Heritage foundation and murder Pete Heth, whom he called a Nazi. An assassin who complained about white people on the Internet murdered two diplomats in Washington shouting Free Palestine as he was dragged away by police. A pro abortion extremist blew up a car outside of a fertility clinic in California, causing the single biggest explosion that Southern California had ever seen in its history. Now every single one of these acts of terrorism was committed either by an avowed leftist or by somebody acting on behalf of of left wing causes. So it's a far cry from the greatest domestic terror threat that Merrick Garland and Joe Biden repeatedly warned us about, which was supposedly white supremacy. And this is just a sampling of what these people have been up to over the past six months. All of these incidents, keep in mind, happen after they tried to assassinate Donald Trump twice last summer. And by contrast, you won't find a single comparable example of right wing terrorism in the same time period. I mean, not a single one. There are no roving mobs of angry Christians throwing objects at self identified trans people who are attending a concert. There are no right wingers detonating car bombs at abortion facilities or walking into the Capitol and announcing their intention to murder prominent Democrats. For all intents and purposes, this is a tendency that is nearly entirely unique to the left. Now, it's not to say that no conservative has ever committed an act of violence, but if you look at the trends, especially in recent years, it's a very stark disparity. And everybody knows that's true. And yet, despite how obvious this trend is, nobody on the left has even attempted to provide an honest explanation about what exactly is going on. Instead, when they're not blaming Donald Trump for everything, prominent figures on the left are pumping out some of the most vapid and irrelevant content that you can imagine. Michelle Obama is doing podcasts with her brother where they debate whether a hot dog is really a sandwich. They've also argued about whether beets should come with a warning label when they appear on restaurant menus because, you know, a lot of people hate eating them. So, compelling stuff for their 40,000 viewers, most of whom aren't even watching the videos, they're just popping into the comments section to call Michelle Obama a man. Meanwhile, Gavin Newsom, the presumed frontrunner for the Democrats presidential nomination in 2024, is hosting his own podcast that is bombing terribly because predictably enough, it's an extremely insincere, phony production. Newsom will interview conservatives, but he won't actually engage with anything they're saying. And he certainly won't offer any kind of genuine explanation of the current state of the Democrat Party. In other words, Newsom's podcast is as phony as he is, and so it's basically a flop. But, you know, recently there was one notable attempt on the left to try to explain from a dispassionate perspective what exactly is wrong with their whole movement. Now, I'm talking about a recent substack post by Nate Silver. And in case you're not familiar with Nate Silver. He's the data guy who's famous for constructing an extremely elaborate computer model that crunches data from a wide variety of political polls, runs them through a highly proprietary and complicated algorithm, and then tells you that the election is basically a toss up. He ran the website538 back in the day, and even though it was either wrong or useless, most of the time, it was still pretty successful. Because in general, people love to hear about the odds that something will or will not happen. Doesn't matter if the odds are made up. People just love hearing the odds. For example, nervous liberals loved hearing from Nate Silver that Hillary Clinton had an 85% chance of winning shortly before the 2016 election. Whether or not that figure had any basis in reality, which of course it didn't. But in this particular case, Silver has written a breakdown of data that's actually worth looking at and talking about. And I'm referring to his article entitled why Young Men Don't Like Democrats. And in this article, Silver includes this chart which we'll put up on the screen right now. You can see it right there. This is data from the Cooperative Election Study at Harvard. And as you can see, the chart is entitled Higher Self Reported Mental Health Correlates with With Conservative Political Views. And as you'll see, that turns out to be actually kind of an understatement. Specifically, the data show that when you look at voters who report that they have poor mental health, liberals outnumber conservatives 45% to 19%. That's a 26 point swing. And then if you look at voters who report having excellent mental health, you'll find that conservatives make up 51% of those voters who, while liberals make up just 20%. That's a 31 point differential. And here's how Silver interprets these results. After saying that he was surprised by the numbers. Somehow he says, quote, the young men the Democrats have trouble with aren't necessarily the ones who have been captured by the conservative manosphere and who are looking for a helping hand. Rather, it's those who report relatively high mental health and see Democrats as being too neurotic and perhaps constraining their opportunity to compete and reap the rewards of their work. Close quote. Now, as far as I can tell, as mild as this observation might seem, it's the first serious effort on the left to understand why voters are rebelling against the Democrat Party. And the more blunt way to put this, of course, is that, you know, Democrats have gone insane. The violence that we're seeing all over the country, from Pennsylvania to California, isn't the result of one or two lone gun minutes, the natural byproduct of a political party that now caters almost exclusively to people with serious mental health conditions? And a lot of voters, particularly young men, are tired of associating with this nonsense, so they're voting Republican in greater numbers than ever before. But while that's obviously true, it's also an oversimplification. It's important to point out that among Democrats, it's fashionable to say that you're suffering from some kind of mental health problem. This is like a, this is a, this is a trend, you know, this is a. They wear it as a badge of honor. It's an easy way to gain some victimhood currency while also excusing your own antisocial behavior. So it's kind of like a. It's. They, they get a two for one special on that. They become victims, and they also get to have an excuse for when they behave in a deranged and narcissistic way. And therefore, many of these people who self report having poor mental health in reality aren't completely insane. They could probably become 10 times happier if they ditched their 200 square foot studio apartment in New York City and stopped obsessing over Donald Trump and, you know, decided to start a family and live a real human life. But that would require some introspection on the part of these disaffected liberals. It would also require breaking away from the mold and rejecting the comfort of conformity, which is the hardest thing for a liberal to do. It's a lot easier to say that you suffer from a mental health disorder and absolve yourself of all responsibility for your own life. And unquestionably, that's a big part of what these numbers reflect. Now, if you drill down a little deeper into the numbers, you'll see exactly what, which demographic is prone to this kind of thinking. And Nate Silver doesn't get into this, but many of these supposedly troubled Democrat voters are women. This is a survey from Pew from a few years back, and we'll put that up on the screen as well. Pew asked a series of different demographics whether a healthcare professional had ever told them that they had a mental health condition. And the results are even harder to believe than the figures that made Silver cited harder to believe. Anyway, if you're a bit naive, it turns out that more than half of white Liberal women age 18 to 29 answer in the affirmative, okay? That they've been told they have a mental health problem. More than half, specifically 56% of them said yes that they have been told by a mental health professional that they have some kind of mental disorder. Meanwhile, only around 28% of white moderate women and white conservative women in that same age group said yes to that question, which is still an extremely high number, but nowhere near what liberal women are reporting. And if you look at liberal men in the 18 to 29 age group, you'll see that the numbers aren't much better. 33% of white liberal men said that they'd been told they had a mental health condition, but only 16% of conservative white men said that they had been told the same thing. So that's yet another, like, very big disparity. And to be clear, this data says that liberal men are diagnosed with mental illness at a much higher rate than conservative and moderate women. And then liberal women are on another planet, essentially. Again, this data doesn't necessarily mean that most liberal women and men do in fact suffer from mental health conditions, although many of them clearly do. But it does mean that they're seeking out therapy to deal with their problems, which almost always results in a diagnosis, because that's how therapists make money. This is the doom loop that Democrat voters have found themselves in. They recognize that they have a problem, but because they're told to trust the science and listen to the experts, they don't try to find a solution on their own. Instead, they pay someone to find that solution for them, even though the therapist they're paying has a clear conflict, conflict of interest, and doesn't have any actual financial incentive to, you know, help them get over whatever their problem is. Because then they lose, you know, then the therapists lose money. They want to keep the people coming back. They want repeat customers. Now, a couple of more data points are worth talking about, especially if you're tempted to chalk all these differences up to biology. Here's a chart showing how many men report having good mental health. That's the blue number. And as compared to the number of women who report having good mental health, that's, you know, the red number there. The data goes all the way back to the 1920s. And as you can see, men have always reported having better mental health than women. But the disparity is far larger now than it's ever been. Quoting again from the article, the gap is much bigger for Gen Z than for earlier generations, responding with a widening gender gap among young voters in the United States and other countries. Indeed, in the United States, higher self reported mental health is strongly correlated with holding conservative political views. Now, this is a phenomenon that's happening all over the world, although it's especially pronounced in this country. Liberals are increasingly reporting that they're losing their minds at a higher rate than ever before. And liberal women are particularly affected. So what exactly is going on here? For Democrats, it's kind of a classic chicken or egg problem. People like Nate Silver are trying to figure it out. Is liberalism simply attracting crazy people or is liberalism making people crazy? And the answer, of course, is both. Now, on the one hand, liberalism is clearly the ideology of choice for misfits who already suffer from mental illness. They'll find affirmation on the left as well as encouragement to pursue whatever depraved course of action they're thinking of. Additionally, liberalism and the indoctrination and propaganda that millions of young people are forced to endure starting at a young age, is creating new mental patients, or at least people who think they're mentally disturbed, is turning otherwise healthy people into neurotic, unpleasant, and unhinged activists. This is the inevitable consequence of embracing an ideology that's completely divorced from reality. And that's exactly what Democrats have done. The effect is particularly pronounced among young women, who are now more bitter and unhappy than ever before relative to men, even though feminism promised the opposite result in the end. As it turns out, women aren't happy with know when they're encouraged to murder their children or pressured into working 80 hour weeks for a Fortune 500 corporation. They're not actually thrilled at the prospect that womanhood is a completely arbitrary and meaningless concept. But the leaders of the Democrat party don't care about any of this because when it counts, women have been reliable voters for Democrats. So whether they're miserable or not, Democrats don't care. Actually, they prefer for them to be miserable because that's, you know, that's the state that Democrats want voters to be in because it makes them more likely to vote Democrat. Like miserable, unhappy with yourself, self loathing. As we've seen, the more people are feeling that way, the more likely they are to vote Democrat. And this analysis by Nate Silver suggests that at some level, liberals are finally starting to recognize that this is an unsustainable approach. When you invent an alternate universe and then bombard everybody with obvious lies, then you've created a very fragile and unstable coalition. And with every act of terrorism that the left commits in broad daylight, that coalition is becoming smaller and smaller because moderates and sane people in general realize what's going on. The last election didn't simply reflect Kamala Harris's lack of political talent, although that was certainly a big factor, it also reflected the public's disdain for political terrorism and mental disorder. And in the seven months since that election, Democrats have only offered more of the same. More violence, more attacks, more intimidation. Two assassination attempts on Trump, though unprecedented, were just the opening salvo for these people. And now we're hearing about a new assassination every other week because for an increasing number of Democrats, that's their preferred way of expressing themselves. Yes, one Nate Silver article at a time. This sad reality is finally dawning on the supposedly intellectual wing of the Democrat Party. But Democrats still don't have any solutions, probably because they don't want any. And that means, inevitably, that left wing terrorists will continue to attack many more people on a regular cadence. They'll continue to become more violent and brazen as we approach the midterm elections. This is the party that Democrats have created. This is the constituency they've cultivated. It's far worse than highly credentialed experts like Nate Silver ever imagined it could possibly be. But it's what the leaders of the Democrat Party wanted. They sought out the least happy, most deranged people they could find. And precisely because their constituency is so unstable, no one, including these Democrat leaders, truly has any idea what's coming next. Now let's get to our five headlines. 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