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It contrasts the Right’s movement away from conviction toward a center posture with the Left’s renewed momentum through democratic socialism and progressive activism. Using metaphors tied to Gaza and technology, it describes how justice narratives, wealth individualism, and moral exhaustion can drive demands for revolution, while questioning whether the established Left will resist or join it.","AFTER THE THEFT IN THE TEMPLE  \nRETURN AND RECKONING IN KASHMIR  \nAMERICA’S BIRTHDAY BLUES  \n[www. openthemagazine. com](www. openthemagazine. com)  \nPRGI REGN. NO. HARENG/2023/89741 VOLUME 5 ISSUE 27 WEEKLY  \n13 JULY 2026 / `100  \nTHE GREAT INDIAN MALE MAKEOVER  \nTHE CRAZE FOR  \nA PERFECT LOOK  \nIS RESHAPING  \n1%7'90-2-8=  \n\\#OpenDialogues  \nAmitabh Vedang Shubhanshu Ram  \nKant Raina Shukla Madhav  \nMEANINGFUL  \nCONVERSATIONS BEYOND  \nTHE NEWSCYCLE .  \nFrom headlines to untold stories, OPEN Dialogues hosts compelling conversations with  \ntoday’s changemakers.  \nCATCH ALL THE EPISODES  \nON YOUTUBE  \n[openthemagazine.com](openthemagazine.com)  \nL O C O M O T I F  \nBy S PRASANNARAJAN  \nUTOPIA IS HERE AGAIN  \nI  \nDEOLOGIES ARE EITHER unmade by the mercilessness of history or rearmed by generational impatience. The validation lies in the current trend of the endangered establishment: the Left isnot good enough tobe just Left any longer; the Right is very status quoist unless you add the adjective‘ultra’toit. The Left, in its most familiar self, is so  \nelastic that it could include liberals, anti-capitalists, socialistsandallof Marx’s orphans. Today may not bethe Left’s best of times politically but, in the marketplace of arguments, it still retains considerable inﬂuence. The search for justice is a viable rhetorical vocation. The Right is a natural claimant to power now, and it is fast shedding all the accumulated shame of the past. Both the Left and the Right are ﬁghting street-smart idealism.  \nThe Right is paying the price for power, which is certainly true of the West. Britain’s Conservatives have lost the argument ever since the curse of Brexit. When the deﬁciency of political conviction cannot cope with popular will, the Right abandonsits ideological responsibility, which is so central to the moral making of the conservatives, and moves to the centre—and becomes Left by other means. Conservatives as polite centrists look more Blairites than Thatcherites. They are now inan existential crisis. The subversives, promising reform and freedom, are harvesting the resentment on the Right.  \nAcross the Atlantic, the Right has ceased to bean ideological project and become a personality cult, borrowing from the totalitarian heritage of the Left. The‘greatness’motif of Trumpism, despite the invasion of MAGA capsin Middle America, is subordinatedtothe impulsesofa merchant king. The Grand Old Party of Lincoln and Reagan has given way to the Grand Old  \nMan’s Party of pettiness. It has minimal ideological content and plenty of imperial kitsch. The only consolation forthestiﬂed conservatives is that the pathological presidency of the patriarch isin its autumn.  \nWhat is unfolding among the American Leftisthe true story of ideological extremism. Utopia has returned with a vengeance. Democratic Socialism, with the New York City mayor ZohranMamdani as its mascot, has served notice that the Left establishment, for so longambling along the liberal middle path, has passed its use-by date. It is time for the revolution. The Democratic Socialists’success in the New York congressional primaries, where aMamdani nod meant sure victory, has a resonance far beyond the limited American upheaval. It carries within it the larger story of how demography, ideology and the moral identity of geography have come to seize the mind. To bea socialist is cool again if, say, aMamdani is cool. And therewards of capitalism breed revolution. The Newest Left is kinetic progressivism in which a sense of justice can coexist with hatred fora community and country, anda sense of equality can exclude aclass from social hierarchies. Once it was a Bernie Sanders arguing for the humanisation of the establishment Left. Today the radical  \nwants to bring down the house that once indulged FDR and Obama—and restricts admission to the utopia.  \nWhat really happened? If one is looking for metaphors, two will suffice: Gaza and Musk. 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