Speech Condemns Radical Leftism, Communism and Political Violence

This is a distinctive and unique evil.

It has always been

driven by a hatred, above all else, a hatred for

civilization itself.

It is a revolt of

the worst against

the best, a revolt of the weak

and the cowardly against the

strong and the good.

It is perpetrated

by those who cannot

build, who cannot create,

who cannot achieve great things, and

take their revenge upon the world for

their

own inadequacy by

seeking to destroy those who can.

This is what radical leftism is. It

may wear various different slogans

and ideologies across place and time.

They can call themselves anti-capitalist

or anti-imperialist or

communist or anarchist or Marxist, but the

fundamental character is

always the same. It's always the same.

It is a poisonous resentment

cloaked in the language of

equality and justice, liberation, an overwhelming need to

tear down what greater men have built,

to wreck what is

beautiful and what is right

on behalf of people who

are only filled with

ugliness and have

nothing else to offer the world.

Through violence and through terror, they

once again seek to impose

their ugliness on all of us.

The old dogma was

wrong. The old dogma was wrong.

None of this is driven by idealism.

It is not utopian. In fact,

it is the opposite.

One of the criticisms you

sometimes hear of communism, for

example, is that it sounds

good in theory, but it never works in practice.

That's actually not true.

Communism does not sound good in theory.

The world it envisions

for all of us is

small, flat,

gray, leveled of all exception,

drained of all that is good and

noble in the human soul. The world it envisions

is a world without courage,

a world without creativity or ambition, a

world without

heroes or glory or great

causes to strive towards, without-- a

world without miracles, without myths, without men who rise

above the rest to do

incredible and extraordinary things.

And the world communism

envisions is a world without God.

For these architects of

revolutionary violence, the

towering achievement of our

civilization, for them,

it's an unbearable humi-humiliation,

a reminder of what they cannot do

and a reminder of what they cannot be.

So they choose instead to destroy. They attack pipelines.

They attack railroads.

They attack power grids and laboratories,

the physical embodied

symbols of power and invention

and achievement.

This is the nature of

the terrorism we face today.

They despise the West because the West is

great.