But our question is this: Since when did the left start hating dictatorships?

It’s the left, after all, that has had a long and storied string of romances with actual dictators. …

Sure, there’ve been right-wing dictators. But as we’ve written in this space many, many times, it’s the Democrats who are uniquely drawn to dictatorships because they, far more than conservatives, yearn to control everyone’s behavior. They, not conservatives, want a bigger, more powerful, more centralized government. They are the ones who eagerly used COVID as an excuse to strip Americans of their right to free speech, free assembly, and due process. Those are all the hallmarks of dictatorships.

It’s the Tom Friedmans of the world, not the Thomas Sowells, who yearn for America to be more like the communist dictatorship in China.

[We don’t even need to go back through much history. One party seems obsessed with shutting down its critics and dissent, and it ain’t the GOP. The Left’s love affair with brutal authoritarians goes back at least to Stalin, and runs the gamut from Guevara to Maduro, and now apparently includes Haniyeh and Sinwar. There’s a pattern here, and it doesn’t accrue to Trump. — Ed]