The radical Left’s indifference to human life in the wake of the Texas floods is shocking. It exposes not just a troubling lack of civil discourse among the next generation of its leaders—but progressives’ long-romanticized destruction of their political foes.
Unhinged reactions to the victims of the Guadalupe River tragedy—with some even expressing satisfaction that potential MAGA supporters died—do not simply reveal the twisted views of a few leftist outliers: they expose the core principle that animates the entire movement. The radical Left increasingly sees political violence as a legitimate option in light of the Democrats’ inability to stop President Trump’s agenda.
Instead of sympathizing with the loved ones reeling from the devastation of the floods, with some victims as young as eight years old, Dr. Christina Propst, a Houston pediatrician formerly with Blue Fish Pediatrics, took to social media in a now-deleted post: “May all visitors, children, non-MAGA voters and pets be safe and dry.… Kerr County MAGA voted to gut FEMA. They deny climate change. May they get what they voted for. Bless their hearts.”
Thankfully, justice was swift. Blue Fish Pediatrics promptly fired Propst and “strongly condemn[ed]” her comments. Yet she wasn’t alone.
Sade Perkins, a former Houston mayoral appointee, spewed a racist tirade. She called Camp Mystic, a non-denominational Christian camp, an “all-white, white-only conservative” camp, adding, “If this were a group of Hispanic girls out there, this would not be getting this type of coverage.”
This is far from the first time that leftists have wished ill will or harm toward their perceived MAGA enemies.
After Hurricane Helene wreaked havoc in Florida and North Carolina in the fall of 2024, a FEMA employee was fired after directing subordinates to deny disaster relief aid to homes endorsing Trump. Indeed, some claim this was not an isolated incident.
After President Trump was nearly assassinated last summer, several Democratic officials and fundraisers lamented that the sniper’s bullet missed him. Moreover, since descending the golden escalator ten years ago, prominent celebrities have called for violence against Trump. Kathy Griffin infamously held a grotesque, graphically bloodied head made in his likeness.
Those with ties to President Trump like Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh and Elon Musk have also endured assassination attempts and vandalism. And in 2017, a left-wing Bernie Sanders supporter opened fire at Republican legislators during a practice for the Congressional Baseball Game, nearly costing Representative Steve Scalise’s life. As historian Victor Davis Hanson summarizes, “For the radical Left, ideology exempts its political violence.”
But rather than being honest, progressives have instead attempted to portray the Right as dangerously violent, especially after January 6. They claimed that President Trump instigated an “insurrection” to overturn the 2020 election, which is dubious considering the lack of security measures on that day and Trump himself telling supporters to “go home” (although it was not a “beautiful day,” as Trump later described it).
Even Senator Chris Murphy has stated that MAGA is “bathed in political violence” after the assassination of Minnesota Democrat Melissa Hortman by Vance Boelter, who voted in the 2024 Republican presidential primary.
Yet unlike some prominent leftists who justified the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, no prominent conservative has defended or rationalized Boelter’s murderous mission as meritorious. The man who shot Thompson, Luigi Mangione, meanwhile has received more than 28,000 donations, amassing $1 million, for his defense fund.
The Left’s moral righteousness—and invocation of death if they don’t get their way—even extends to the legislative process. They bashed the Big Beautiful Bill, suggesting that “tens of thousands of Americans will die” due to Medicaid reforms.
However, the radical Left’s selective outrage is glaring when confronted with the destruction and death their ideological peers caused during the 2020 George Floyd riots. They were far more destructive than January 6, causing $2 billion in damage and at least 19 deaths. Yet Democrats and the legacy media downplayed them as “peaceful protests.”
Likewise, this past June, Governor Gavin Newsom refused to deploy the National Guard to quell the anti-ICE riots in downtown Los Angeles, permitting protestors to vandalize city buildings. Democratic lawmakers like California Vice Mayor Cynthia Gonzalez have even encouraged violence toward ICE agents, and are interfering with the enforcement of federal immigration law through the ICEBlock app.
Meanwhile, progressives continue to support the violent atrocities Hamas inflicted on Israelis on October 7. Thousands were murdered, and women and children were raped. But this matters little for radical leftist demonstrators on college campuses who continue to demand a global intifada, chanting “From the river to the sea.” This is not merely a warped slogan criticizing Israel and its wartime actions against a terrorist threat, but a call for genocide. One could—and should—decry the death of Gazan children, but the tears fall short when progressives align themselves with nations hellbent on destroying an entire people.
The Rev. Ben Johnson, the former executive editor of the Acton Institute, warned that “for all their talk about solidarity with suffering humanity young socialists disregard the fundamental human dignity of their opponents.”
All of this matters even more in light of the rise of Zohran Mamdani, the 33-year-old proud socialist who is the Democratic frontrunner for the New York City mayoral race. In late June, he told NBC that billionaires should not exist due to income inequality, a message that clearly resonated with his base of young adult voters.
Mamdani’s rise is a bellwether, signaling a disconcerting phenomenon among the next generation of America’s leaders. According to a Cato Institute/YouGov poll, 62% of Americans between 18-29 hold a “favorable view” of socialism; 34% hold similar opinions of Communism.
Perhaps Mamdani’s base is ignorant of the estimated 100 million deaths due to Communism and socialism. Or that a foundational pillar of these ideologies is that, in the words of Marx and Engels, the “forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions”—that is, the destruction of anyone who doesn’t get in line.
Still, this knowledge gap, or failure to grapple with history, reaps devastating consequences, with up-and-coming leaders vying to give these violent 20th-century ideologies another try.
Granted, those wishing for MAGA carnage with the recent Texas floods may have been merely searching for the dopamine rush from clicks, likes, and upvotes instead of actually endorsing political violence. Yet their ghoulish lust for the deaths of children due to their perceived political sympathies demonstrates that civil discourse will likely get worse before it gets better.
The tragedy in Texas should have united the nation in grief. Instead, it revealed a sickness on the Left. If we don’t confront their dehumanizing rhetoric, America risks a future where destruction is not just tolerated but celebrated. Human dignity demands better.