No, not the E.T. kind. These are uncomfortably closer to home.

Jeffrey Folks | October 30, 2026

Stephen Hawking once speculated that aliens, when we encounter them, might not be at all friendly — nothing like the E.T. alien in Spielberg’s film of that name.  I happen to agree with Hawking, who advised caution in responding to any alien signals we may receive.  But there is another sort of alien already among us: the radically alienated and antagonistic left-wing radical belonging to the Democratic Socialists of America.

The DSA member is truly alienated and antagonistic by nature — not alienated from anything in particular, but alienated at his core.  He enjoys — actually needs — being set apart from others, getting the attention, creating disruption and perhaps violence.  His very nature is antagonistic, with all that that implies.  He is against not just President Trump, but every document and institution in this nation’s founding (including the Supreme Court as we have known it and the presidency), against every sort of authority, against every tradition, against every form of order and goodness.  That is the nature of antagonism.

The antagonist, as Roger Scruton pointed out years ago before his untimely death in 2020, is common on the left because the left believes that it must deconstruct our civilization before it imposes a radically new order based on the fiction of equity — “fiction,” because in every socialist or communist society ever attempted, all power and wealth goes to a small number of rulers (e.g., the “Central Committee” of the Communist........

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