Stop. Punching. Right.

The United States, Great Britain, France, and other Western allies aligned 
with the most prolific mass murderer in history, Joseph Stalin, to defeat 
Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany in World War II. There are valid points of 
disagreement with that choice, but most historians consider it a good one 
because, right or wrong, at the time they considered Nazism and the other 
Axis powers a greater existential threat to the world than communism and 
the Soviet Union.

Were they correct? Let’s revisit that later, but for now, you just need to 
understand that the Allies happily sided with one monster in order to 
defeat another one, and the world writ large was OK with it.

Fast forward to today, and we face a greater existential threat than any 
form of fascism ever was or ever will be: leftism. That’s a bold 
contention, I know, but I believe it’s an accurate one. Leftism, at its 
root, continually makes war on the God-ordained social order by employing 
various tactics like feminism, gender ideology, class warfare, 
egalitarianism, and many more to rip apart the traditional nuclear family, 
the building block of all cohesive, safe societies. In doing so, it 
destroys the social fabric that made Western civilization the greatest 
mankind has ever built.

It’s also easily transferable across cultures and societies. Once leftism 
gets its blue and pink dyed tentacles in, things begin to disintegrate 
fast. Economic progress stagnates, inflation soars, infrastructure 
crumbles, and people’s lives progressively get worse as the powers-that-be 
obsess over woke BS. Anarcho-tyranny rules the day as emboldened criminals 
prosper while law-abiding citizens are punished for attempting to protect 
themselves and their property. Freedoms once taken for granted, like 
speech and self-defense, are lost, never to return.

The end result of this path is, of course, full-on socialism and, 
eventually, the ideology responsible for the most human suffering in all 
of history - communism. And then the real killing starts, as we’ve seen 
countless times over the past century and beyond. So yeah, leftism is a 
threat greater than anything humans have ever faced, and it should 
absolutely be opposed at every turn by anyone who values preserving some 
form of free society for their children and grandchildren.

Thus, using the same logic the Allies used in World War II, any enemy of 
leftism should be, at least tangentially, an ‘ally’ of ours. And just like 
Great Britain wouldn’t have sent a sortie of planes past Germany to bomb 
the Soviet Union, as evil as they were at the time, we shouldn’t ‘bomb’ 
our allies. In other words, don’t punch right.

Unfortunately, this is a tough concept for many on our side to understand. 
James Lindsay, for example, has an entire gatekeeping grift going whereby 
he labels people he disagrees with, particularly on foreign policy, as 
“woke right.” This line of thinking has people like Tucker Carlson, for 
example, lumped right in there with actual neo-Nazis, and people like Matt 
Walsh are considered something akin to Nazi collaborators simply for 
refusing to condemn them. (If you missed this entire brouhaha on X over 
the past year or so, just know it’s been a whole thing.)

What I’m arguing for here is as big a tent as humanly possible. Sure, 
we’ll have plenty of differences on plenty of key things, but if your goal 
is to defeat the left, you generally will have a friend in me. And the 
people who seek to divide the right by calling people who take 
controversial positions they don’t like ‘woke’ are doing more harm than 
good. Sure, let’s debate these issues, but let’s do it with grace and 
humility and the recognition that, at the end of the day, we’re on the 
same side.

I know what you’re thinking. Are there people we shouldn’t ally with or 
even talk to? What about those actual neo-Nazis or KKK members (if they 
really exist and aren’t just cosplaying Feds)? Well, the first thing to 
realize here is that in many cases, these ARE plants meant to make the 
right look bad. But no, not all. Sometimes, genuine people who mean well 
get deceived. Sometimes the left calls so many good things ‘fascist’ that 
good people just assume they might as well BE an actual fascist.

Even in these cases, you can associate with or refuse to associate with 
whoever you like without actually punching right. You can express your 
disagreement with certain tactics or beliefs without condemning the people 
who hold them. If someone is an actual antisemite, for example, it is far 
better to patiently address their concerns, as Jesus would have done, 
instead of condemning and writing them off, as the Pharisees would have 
done. Maybe their heart is in the right place and they just need some 
guidance. If so, taking Jesus’s approach might just turn them into a far 
more effective soldier for our side than they ever would have been 
otherwise.

Circling back to that question about whether the Allies were right to 
align with the Soviet Union during World War II, I would argue they 
probably weren’t, that allowing the Nazis and the Communists to duke it 
out in the East would have severely weakened and neutered both to the 
degree that an Iron Curtain over Europe imposed by the fascists or the 
commies would have never been possible. But who really knows, right? The 
great irony is that the communists, once among our closest allies, were 
always the greatest existential threat.

Draw the line where you want, but I believe you should draw it as loosely 
as possible and be as charitable as possible to well-meaning people who 
have some bad ideas but just want to fight the left. Why? It’s not just 
the Christian thing to do, it’s also the best strategy. Because the battle 
against the left, now more than ever, is a battle of good vs evil, of 
sanity versus insanity, of order versus chaos, and we’re going to need all 
the help we can get to have any shot at winning it.

When that fight is finally won, the hand-wringers, the gatekeepers, and 
the ‘woke-right’ accusers can at least do their thing without causing 
actual harm to the cause they profess.

https://townhall.com/columnists/scottmorefield/2025/10/27/stop-punching-
right-n2665493