The most self-destructive pillars of lefty lunacy finally begin to fall

The grotesque sexual misconduct involving Democratic politicians — from New York Gov.Andrew Cuomo to California Rep.

Eric Swalwell — has finally put #MeToo to rest.We were reminded of its demise when it was revealed that Maine senatorial candidate and socialist heartthrob Graham Platner had been discovered to possess a long social media history of crude and pornographic put-downs of women.The demise of Black Lives Matter offers another example of a recurring left-wing phenomenon: movements that begin as moral crusades and end as self-parodies.Almost every BLM cause célèbre has proved fraudulent, following a long tradition that stretches from Al Sharpton’s Tawana Brawley myth to the Duke lacrosse scandal.The aftermath of the death of George Floyd did lasting damage to the country that still reverberates.The current leftist habit of urban intersection takeovers, statue-toppling, name-changing, and violent demonstrations is a legacy of that summer of lawlessness.Thousands of police officers nationwide were laid off in “defund the police” madness.Faddish “critical race” and “critical legal” theories led to no-cash bail and the near-immediate release of hundreds of thousands of arrested violent criminals.Our supposedly best universities, in Pavlovian fashion, dropped the SAT admission requirement and upped race-based admissions.Administrators and bureaucrats soon created thousands of DEI positions across universities and corporations.And the result was certainly not better race relations.The episodes of existential psychodramas that come and go — after doing enormous damage to the nation — are nearly endless.A number of US and international agencies and “experts” have now, mostly quietly, sighed that global warming was never really the existential danger that the Left swore would put “Earth in the balance” in a mere decade.Nonetheless, once again, the toll has been enormous.The left-wing, postmodern, globalist notion of a borderless utopi...