COLUMN: “The Wrong Side of History” Is Just the Left’s Fancy Way of Saying ‘Shut Up’

Ah yes, the moral mic drop of the modern Left

COLUMN: “The Wrong Side of History” Is Just the Left’s Fancy Way of Saying ‘Shut Up’
By Larry O’Connor

There’s a particular smug little phrase that keeps popping up like a bad rash during every debate, protest, or townhall-turned-shouting-match:

“You don’t want to be on the wrong side of history.”

Ah yes, the moral mic drop of the modern Left. The argument to end all arguments. The intellectual equivalent of throwing a glitter bomb and running away.

It’s a neat trick, really. Instead of having to explain why a 13-year-old should be allowed to amputate healthy body parts, or why we should print money until the dollar becomes a collector’s item, or why giving Iran pallets of cash is totally cool now, they just declare:

“You’ll be on the wrong side of history!”

That’s it. That’s the argument. No debate, no data, no boring policy details. Just a ghostly appeal to an imaginary future in which they’re always the heroes and you’re always the goose-stepping villain.

It’s a rhetorical weapon, disguised as a time machine.

📚 A Marxist Hallmark

Now, this isn’t just lazy. It’s Marxist. Literally.