I don't know how often you get to witness leftists arguing things in the wild, but you can get a pretty good sense of it on X or BlueSky.
One of their most utilized battle strategies, at least when it comes to debating people to the right of them — which is most of the American population at this point — is to throw out nuance in order to maintain the narrative that their opponents are driven by an ignorant yet arrogant brand of evil.
I'm going to give you a perfect example here.
As many of you are probably well aware at this moment because it's literally on every front page of every news site and social media platform right now, Olympic figure skater Alysia Liu won the gold medal for the U.S.A., prompting a massive storm of celebration. Deservedly so!
But what's being paired with it, and what makes her win so sweet, is that Liu's father immigrated here from China, having fled communism. He participated in the Tiananmen Square protest against the communist regime, came to America, and had a daughter with what appears to be generational talent at figure skating. She's so good, in fact, that China tried to get her to skate for them during the Olympics, to which she refused, and she had to have round-the-clock protection to keep her safe from Chinese intimidation efforts.
When she won the gold, she honored old glory as her father, with the U.S. flag in hand, applauded her from the stands. A beautiful moment, and America can't stop singing the praises of the Liu family.
But, because we can't have anything nice, the left is turning this into a political "gotcha" moment.
The long and short of it is "Oh, so you like immigrants after all?"
You can see this argument in pretty much every political conversation about Liu, but I'll post the one that got the most attention.
so you agree immigration is good https://t.co/uaRVKWFoI2 pic.twitter.com/hevbhn8MJe
— lukezim (@lukezim) February 20, 2026
I don't want to reiterate that we, especially us on the right, don't hate immigrants for the 1,050th time, because you already know it, and it wouldn't matter to them if you said it.
In fact, the point that I want to make here is that we've been saying immigrants aren't a bad thing for ages now. Legal immigration is good, and while we can discuss particulars about specific groups that are and aren't compatible with Western culture, the one thing we've never advocated for is to become radical isolationists.
They, on the left, know that. They've heard us say this repeatedly.
They don't care.
They have to continue to frame everyone who isn't in their line of thinking as morally deficient, or else they have to concede that their positions aren't as morally and logically sound as they thought. They continue to push the idea that we on the right are just xenophobic racists, because it justifies the prejudice and the benefit of not having to take anything we say seriously.
But this isn't really a good strategy, especially in the long-term.
At some point, you have to move the ball forward, or your argument not only starts to look bad, but it also starts to make you look bad. You're not coming forward with a good-faith argument, and at some point, people are just going to stop arguing with you, following the old rule established by (maybe) Mark Twain, which is "Never argue with stupid people. They will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience."
You will ultimately be ignored, and whatever moral highground you held onto would be diminished.
It's already starting to happen, and as far as I'm concerned, shoving off from these radical leftists as a society is something that can't happen fast enough.
