An ambitious acquaintance of mine once said he’d roll his tanks on to his boss’s lawn within six months. It’s an effective though uncomfortable metaphor conjuring a moment of total victory over the existing order, and a brutal contempt for it, too. Those steel tank tracks churning up the manicured grass are not just destructive, but also barbarous and quintessentially insulting.

Kindred thoughts arose this week as we laid out David Harsanyi’s cover story under the headline “What’s Left,” accompanied by Tim Bower’s illustration of an anguished Statue of Liberty contemplating the Democrats’ demolition of America’s founding values. Their awful policies are so numerous, and would be so far-reaching if implemented, that we’ve also compiled a spreadsheet pulling them together so readers can readily grasp the breathtaking ruin they’d visit upon our nation. But destruction is not the only thing. There is about the policies an arrogance that knows little and cares nothing for the principles that undergird the status quo they’re intent on destroying. We live in a norm-destroying epoch, with both President Trump and his antagonists happily going to greater extremes of rhetoric (in his case) and policy (in theirs) than ever before. “What’s Left?” has two thrusts: what it means to be on the Left these days, and what would be left of America if all their policies were put in place.