9/11 Memorial Vandalism as Evidence of the Left's Hatred of America
Source: https://www.facebook.com/americanspectator/. "New 9/11 Memorial Vandal Underscores Left’s Deep-Rooted Hatred of America | The American Spectator | USA News and Politics." October 30, 2026. spectator.org
The Gist
The author says a man who spray-painted an anti-gun website over 9/11 memorial names shows that the political left hates America, just as the 2020 statue-toppling did. He claims the left rejects American history, people, and constitutional values, while the right is pro-America, so voters should see the choice as civilization versus barbarism.
Conclusion
The American Left, now largely indistinguishable from the Democratic mainstream, is dominated by an anti-American movement that hates the nation's history, people, and constitutional order, while the Right is basically pro-America and should therefore prevail in the coming elections.
Premises
- Jonathan Tijerina spray-painted an anti-gun website over the names of 9/11 victims at the memorial, and the author reads his choice of the Windows on the World panels as showing contempt for working and middle-class Americans.
- The 2020 BLM-era riots included defacing and toppling statues of figures such as Columbus, Washington, Jefferson, Grant, and Lincoln, and this belongs on a direct line with Tijerina's act.
- A nation needs shared memory, shared cultural touchstones, and a shared sense of the sacred and the profane (Lincoln's 'mystic chords of memory'), and attacks on national memorials erode these.
- The Left rejects America's particular heritage in favor of Marxist universalism, replaces biblical inheritance with 'woke' and Islamist ideology, and rejects the constitutional order in favor of a 'mobocratic spirit'.
- The Left's fringe is increasingly indistinguishable from the Democratic Party mainstream, so these acts reflect the broader Left rather than isolated individuals.
- The Right, though imperfect, is basically pro-America and pro-Western, making the current political divide one of civilization versus barbarism.
Assumptions
- Acts by individual vandals and rioters are representative of the Left and the Democratic Party as a whole
- Vandalism of monuments reflects hatred of the nation itself rather than protest of specific policies or figures
- Tijerina's motive was contempt for America or for working-class victims, not a misguided attempt at gun-violence advocacy
- Criticism of historical figures or national narratives is equivalent to hatred of the country
- The Left and Right are coherent, unified blocs with uniform attitudes toward America
- Progressive, Marxist, and Islamist ideas can be treated as a single anti-American movement
- Support for the Right is equivalent to patriotism and will be the deciding factor in elections