Bernie Sanders’ office in Vermont and the Labour party headquarters in London were both been targeted in recent days amid rising tensions on the Left.
Youth Demand, a group that’s linked to Just Stop Oil, vandalised Labour HQ with red spray paint as part of a week of protests over the war in Gaza. Across the pond, a man set fire to Sanders’ offices on Friday while staff were inside, perhaps in an odious nod to the Senator’s 2016 slogan “feel the Bern” (no one was hurt). His motives have not been determined.
The progressive Left has something of an army of activists and protesters — usually focused on climate change, abortion and racial issues — but as the war in Gaza eclipses other causes as The Current Thing, the establishment Left has found itself in their crosshairs. Freud was certainly onto something when he described the narcissism of small differences…
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