Demonic

ALSO BY ANN COULTER

GUILTY

IF DEMOCRATS HAD ANY BRAINS,
THEY’D BE REPUBLICANS

GODLESS

HOW TO TALK TO A LIBERAL
(IF YOU MUST)

TREASON

SLANDER

HIGH CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS

Copyright © 2011 by Ann Coulter

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v3.1

For Peter Thiel

CONTENTS

Cover

Other Books by This Author

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

PART I:
THE PSYCHOLOGY OF THE LIBERAL

ONE.
THE LIBERAL MOB

TWO.
AMERICAN IDOLS:
THE MOB’S COMPULSION TO CREATE MESSIAHS

THREE.
CONTRADICTIONS:
YOU CAN LEAD A MOB TO WATER, BUT YOU CAN’T MAKE IT THINK

FOUR.
CRACKPOT CONSPIRACY THEORIES—
OR, AS LIBERALS CALL THEM, “THEORIES”

FIVE.
I’LL SEE YOUR BIRTH CERTIFICATE CONSPIRACY THEORY AND RAISE YOU ONE OCTOBER SURPRISE

PART II:
THE HISTORICAL CONTEXT OF THE LIBERAL

SIX.
THE FRENCH REVOLUTION:
WHEN LIBERALS ATTACK

SEVEN.
THE FRENCH REVOLUTION PART DEUX:
COME FOR THE BEHEADINGS, STAY FOR THE RAPES!

EIGHT.
THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION:
HOW TO THROW A REVOLUTION WITHOUT LOSING YOUR HEAD

PART III:
THE VIOLENT TENDENCIES OF THE LIBERAL

NINE.
THE SIXTIES:
THE MOB GOES TO COLLEGE

TEN.
CIVIL RIGHTS AND THE MOB:
GEORGE WALLACE, BULL CONNOR, ORVAL FAUBUS, AND OTHER DEMOCRATS

ELEVEN.
TIMOTHY M
cV
EIGH IS NOW A TEA PARTIER

TWELVE.
IMAGINARY VIOLENCE FROM THE RIGHT VS. ACTUAL VIOLENCE FROM THE LEFT

THIRTEEN.
RAPED TWICE:
LIBERALS AND THE CENTRAL PARK RAPE

PART IV:
WHY WOULD ANYONE BE A LIBERAL?

FOURTEEN.
STATUS ANXIETY:
PLEASE LIKE ME!

FIFTEEN.
INHERITORS OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION:
LIBERALS ♥ MOBS

SIXTEEN.
THE TOTALITARIAN INSTINCT AND SEXUAL PERVERSITY OF LIBERALS

SEVENTEEN.
LUCIFER:
THE ULTIMATE MOB BOSS

APPENDIX

NOTES

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

About the Author

PART I:
THE
PSYCHOLOGY
OF THE
LIBERAL

ONE
THE LIBERAL MOB

2 When Jesus got out of the boat, a man with an impure spirit came from the tombs to meet him.

3 This man lived in the tombs, and no one could bind him anymore, not even with a chain.

4 For he had often been chained hand and foot, but he tore the chains apart and broke the irons on his feet. No one was strong enough to subdue him.

5 Night and day among the tombs and in the hills he would cry out and cut himself with stones.

6 When he saw Jesus from a distance, he ran and fell on his knees in front of him.

7 He shouted at the top of his voice, “What do you want with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? In God’s name don’t torture me!”

8 For Jesus had said to him, “Come out of this man, you impure spirit!”

9 Then Jesus asked him, “What is your name?” “My name is Legion,” he replied, “for we are many.”

—MARK 5:2–9

T
he demon is a mob, and the mob is demonic. It is the nihilistic mob of the French Revolution; it is the revolutionaries who seized control of Russia at the beginning of the twentieth century; it is the Maoist gangs looting villages and impaling babies in China; it is the Ku Klux Klan terrorizing Republicans and blacks in the South; it is the 1992 Los Angeles riot that left fifty dead and did $1 billion of damage after the first Rodney King verdict; it is the bloody riots at the 1968 Democratic National Convention; it is the masked hoodlums smashing up Seattle when bankers came to town; it is the 500,000 illegal aliens marching under a foreign flag in Los Angeles; it is throngs of Islamic fanatics attending the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini’s funeral, tearing his body out of its coffin; it is left-wing protesters destroying property and attacking delegates at the Republican National Conventions.

Everything else changes, but mobs are always the same. A mob is an irrational, childlike, often violent organism that derives its energy from the group. Intoxicated by messianic goals, the promise of instant gratification, and adrenaline-pumping exhortations, mobs create mayhem, chaos, and destruction, leaving a smoldering heap of wreckage for their leaders to climb to power.

The Democratic Party is the party of the mob, irrespective of what the mob represents. Democrats activate mobs, depend on mobs, coddle mobs, publicize and celebrate mobs—they
are
the mob. Indeed, the very idea of a “community organizer” is to stir up a mob for some political purpose. “As so frequently happens when a crowd goes wild,” historian Erik Durschmied says, “there is always one who shouts louder and thereby appoints himself as their leader.”
¹
Those are the people we call “elected Democrats.”

The Democrats’ playbook doesn’t involve heads on pikes—as yet—but uses a more insidious means to incite the mob. The twisting of truth, stirring of passions, demonizing of opponents, and relying on propagandistic images in lieu of ideas—these are the earmarks of a mob leader.

Over and over again, one finds the Democrats manipulating the mob to gain power. It is official Democratic policy to appeal to the least-informed, weakest minded members of the public. Their base consists of soccer moms, actresses, felons, MSNBC viewers, aging Red-diaper babies, welfare recipients, heads-up-their-asses billionaires, and
government workers—who can never be laid off. The entire party gave up on attracting the votes of white men decades ago. It’s easier to round up votes by frightening women about “assault weapons” and promising excellent free health care to non–English speakers. Yes, a free health care system that is
so
superior that Democrats exempt themselves and their friends from being in it.

Liberals frighten people about their health care in order to stampede through ObamaCare. They claim the Earth is overheating in order to seize taxpayer money for solar panels and compact fluorescent light-bulbs. They call out union thugs to force politicians to accede to insane benefits packages. They stage campaigns of calumny to get their way on gay marriage. Faddish ideas that would never have occurred to anyone fifty years ago—or even twenty years ago—are suddenly foisted on the rest of us by the liberal mobs.

Although the left in America is widely recognized as hysterical, unreasonable, and clueless, the “root cause” of these traits has generally been neglected. More than a century ago, Gustave Le Bon perfectly captured the liberal psychological profile in his 1896 book,
The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind
. Le Bon—a French physician, scientist, and social psychologist—was the first to identify the phenomenon of mass psychology. His groundbreaking book
The Crowd
paints a disturbing picture of the behavior of mobs. Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini used his book to learn how to incite a mob. Our liberals could have been Le Bon’s study subjects.

Even the left-wing
Guardian
has admitted that Le Bon’s study of crowd behavior was “possibly the most influential work of psychology ever written.” Presumably recognizing themselves in his psychological profile, liberals have recently tried to undermine Le Bon.

They have complained that he merely “articulated the propertied classes’ fear of the mob.” Who likes mobs? Renters? Window manufacturers? Rope salesmen? Liberals also objected that Le Bon did not hold the police accountable for a mob’s behavior—which is like demanding that we take into account the length of a rape victim’s skirt.
²
It is revealing that liberals so fear Le Bon that they try to sully him as “controversial” and “reactionary.” (Those particular complaints, incidentally, were lodged by liberal activist George Monbiot, who has called for “citizen’s
arrests” of former government officials from George W. Bush’s UN ambassador John Bolton to former British prime minister Tony Blair. No wonder he doesn’t like psychological studies of mob behavior.)
³

It was all the usual claptrap, but the piercing truth of Le Bon’s study speaks for itself. Liberals wouldn’t go after him if, even a century later, his theories didn’t still ring true. All the characteristics of mob behavior set forth by Le Bon in 1895 are evident in modern liberalism—simplistic, extreme black-and-white thinking, fear of novelty, inability to follow logical arguments, acceptance of contradictory ideas, being transfixed by images, a religious worship of their leaders, and a blind hatred of their opponents.

Many of liberals’ peculiarities are understandable only when one realizes that they are a mob. For example, a crowd’s ability to grasp only the simplest ideas is reflected in the interminable slogans. Liberals have boatloads of them: Bush Lied, Kids Died! Our Bodies, Our Selves! No Blood for Oil! No Justice, No Peace! Save the Whales; Love Your Mother (Earth); Ban the Bomb; Make Love, Not War; Friends Don’t Let Friends Vote Republican; Diversity Is Our Strength! Save the Planet! Pro-Choice, Pro-Child! Support Our Troops, Bring Them Home! Co-Exist! Hey, Hey, LBJ, How Many Kids Did You Kill Today? Dissent Is Patriotic! War Is Not the Answer! Go Green! Health Care Is a Right, Not a Privilege! Imagine Peace; Celebrate Diversity! Beat the Bushes for Peace! No Nukes! Give Peace a Chance; Think Globally/Act Locally; No Tax Cuts for the Rich; Save the Planet! Venceremos! One, Two, Three, Four, We Don’t Want Your F—King War! Bush = Hitler; Hell No, We Won’t Go! Off the Pig! Eat the Rich! Die Yuppie Scum! Peace Now! We Are the Ones We’ve Been Waiting For! Solidarity Forever! Bring America Home! You Can’t Hug a Child with Nuclear Arms; Meat Is Murder! Books Not Bombs! Fight the Power! Yes We Can!

And those are just the ones on my neighbor’s car.

What is the Tea Party’s slogan? There is none. Republicans almost never have slogans, certainly none that anyone can remember—except when our presidential candidates are forced to come up with some short-lived catchphrase for their campaigns.

There are only three memorable Republican slogans in the past half century—unless you count what Dick Cheney said to Pat Leahy on the
Senate floor in 2004, in which case there have been four. There was “27 Million Americans Can’t Be Wrong,” after Goldwater lost in a historic landslide in 1964. There were the YAF buttons made in tribute to William F. Buckley’s mayoral campaign platform in 1965: “Don’t Let Them Immanentize the Eschaton!” And when there were few other reasons to vote for the reelection of the first President Bush in 1992, there was “Annoy the Media, Vote Bush!” Republicans display crosses and fish, college and sports decals, and a few parodies of liberal slogans (“Imagine an Unborn Child”), but there are no bossy demands on our bumper stickers.