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Let me see if I understand this charge of “far-left.” Far-left means outside the constitution-juridical order, rejection of republican values of free speech, freedom of religion, freedom of assembly; rejection of the Constitution.

I don’t see any of this in the short, descriptive biographies of the new people hired at Justice. Liberal organizations and liberal activism do not qualify as “far-left.” Liberals are not leftists to begin with, except in the febrile imaginations of “witch-hunters.”

Defining Liberal activism and Liberal politics as “far-left” is a symptom of perilous political and social polarization griping the nation. It implies a breakdown of our consensus-based two-party system.

In the world of real politics, the dollar amounts contributed by the appointees is considered “chump-change.” The commitments and memberships of the appointees are standard fare, “rosewater do-good-ism.” I don’t see totalitarians on the march to the personnel office of the Justice Department. I don’t see memberships in the Revolutionary Communist Party, Revolutionary Youth Movements I & II, SDS Weathermen, Black Panthers (old or new), anarchist direct action advocates, etc.

I think the article is based on false assumptions of who is a loyal American. If there ever was a warn out approach to understanding our national politics, this article is an example.

This is not an era of the ascendancy of the “far-left.” There is Liberalism and styles of Leftism but no awakening of “far-leftism.”