After the massacres of October 7 — but well before Israel had even responded to the barbaric invasion — thousands of students swarmed their elite universities cheering on the violence.

And what so exhilarated them?

The nihilist, ghoulish beheading, torture, mutilation, mass rape, dismemberment, and necrophilia of unarmed, civilian Israeli elderly, women, children, and infants.

In sum, we are witnessing an epidemic of leftist nihilism similar to the 16th-century European mad wave of iconoclastic destruction of religious art.

Or is the better parallel the suicidal insanity that Mao Zedong unleashed during his cultural revolution of the 1960s?

[All of it. The Left, and especially its Woke Inc industrial core in Academia, hate Western civilization and will ally with anyone and anything to see it destroyed. They seem to fantasize that they will remain to take charge of the ashes, but that’s not how civilizational collapse works — which they’d know if they were educated rather than indoctrinated. — Ed]