The Great Mind-Reading Game
By Jim Reynolds | www.reynolds.com
How the Left Projects, and What Happens When We Try It Back
The Mind-Reading Racket
The Left’s favorite tactic is mind-reading. It’s how they get to call the shots, assign motives, and put every conservative action in the worst possible light. They don’t debate policy — they declare intentions. “Trump wants to be Hitler.” “Republicans secretly hate women.” “The NRA hopes for more shootings.” They get to write the script, and we’re cast as villains before the first line is spoken.
Conservatives don’t play that game. We usually just point out bad policy. We say open borders don’t work, printing money leads to inflation, government dependency weakens families — and that’s usually good enough. But here’s the question: what if we decided to mind-read them the way they mind-read us?
That’s where it gets interesting. When the Left mind-reads us, it’s cartoonish and false — cheap insults in search of evidence. But when we mind-read them, based on how their policies align with their incentives, the picture that emerges actually rings true.
That’s the difference: their mind-reading is buffoonery. Ours is pattern recognition.
How the Left Mind-Reads Trump & Republicans
1. Trump is Hitler.
Every cycle, the Hitler alarm goes off. They don’t argue immigration, trade, or regulation — they just scream “fascist.” Never mind that Hitler seized power; Trump ran and won an election. Never mind Hitler disarmed citizens; Trump expanded gun rights. To the Left, feelings = facts.
Bob: “Apparently ‘build a wall’ is the new ‘invade Poland.’”
2. Republicans are white supremacists.
Doesn’t matter if you’re black, Hispanic, Asian, or Indian — if you’re conservative, the Left insists you secretly hate your own skin. It’s not analysis. It’s therapy masquerading as journalism. When you hear this clarion call, just turn off your TV. Nothing of importance will be missed.
3. Trump wants to be a dictator.
He literally left office when his term expired. Dictators don’t do that. But because he spoke loudly and fired bureaucrats, the Left insists he’s Mussolini reincarnated.
4. Conservatives want to bring back Jim Crow.
Every voter ID law becomes “segregation.” Asking someone to show the same ID they need to board a plane is suddenly Bull Connor with a fire hose. Never mind it was the southern Democrats that enacted the actual Jim Crow laws back in the 19th century. Why do they keep bringing up something that should be a complete embarrassment for their own party?
5. Republicans hate women.
Support traditional marriage? You’re anti-woman. Question abortion? You’re anti-woman. Meanwhile, the Left cheers policies that leave women less safe, less prosperous, and less free. Most conservatives love women — though we reserve the right to be less attracted to plump loud ones with green hair.
6. Evangelicals don’t believe in God — they just want power.
This is the laziest projection of all. People who actually organize their lives around church, family, and scripture are recast as schemers cynically pretending to have faith. Are there sinners amongst us? I believe the Bible covers that.
7. The NRA wants school shootings.
Yes, the Left actually says this. Gun owners who train, secure, and teach firearms safety supposedly want children to die. It’s grotesque — but it saves them from debating the Second Amendment on the merits.
What Happens When We Mind-Read Democrats
1. Democrats want an open border for new voters.
Too many of their old voters got successful and left the party. Importing new ones is easier than persuading the old to become losers again.
2. Democrats push no-vetting voting rules to blur fraud.
Ballot chaos is the point. Fewer safeguards, more manipulation. Democrats oppose every measure that promotes less voter fraud. You don’t need to be a mind reader to understand what is going on here.
3. Motor voter laws are padding the rolls.
Register everyone at the DMV, no questions asked. Oversight is nil, but the rolls bloat nicely.
4. They cry ‘suppression’ while practicing voter inflation.
Call every safeguard “racist,” then flood the system with unverifiable ballots. Here is the easy “tell”: every time the Left yells “racist” they are attempting to cover up some sort of fraud. You can count on that one. Every time.
Bob: “They’re not worried about suppression. They’re worried the printing press might jam.”
5. Climate panic is their cash cow.
Grants, credits, NGOs, subsidies. Not science — subsidy science. Follow the money and you will find bad science, paid off academia, and donors with outstretched palms.
6. Equity isn’t fairness — it’s dependency.
Lock people into permanent reliance, and you lock in permanent votes.
7. No school choice = no free minds.
Trapped kids, dumbed-down curricula, future Democrats baked in. Normalize trans activists and produce a sub population that becomes life-long patients of the medical industrial establishment. But the real reason behind no school choice? Preserve the teacher unions that are a dependable source of campaign cash.
Bob: “Give a kid a choice, and he might choose freedom. Can’t have that.”
8. Abortion as sacrament.
Not health — indulgence without consequence. It’s the one altar they’ll never tear down. And where, exactly, are all those body parts going?
9. DEI is exclusion disguised as inclusion.
Everyone looks different. Everyone thinks the same. Thankfully, under Trump, this idiotic practice is dying a quick death.
10. Billionaire hypocrisy.
They hate rich people — unless they write checks to Democrats. Hey Bernie, the “awligawky” are some of your best friends.
11. They hate Trump because he exposed their weakness.
He proved their cathedral of experts was just papier-mâché.
12. ‘Defending democracy’ means defending their monopoly.
If elections ever go clean, they lose.
13. Crime as a business model.
NGOs feast on crime grants. Politicians skim. Cities stay broken — by design. Troops coming in to clean house would embarrass them by showing how fast the mess could be solved if anyone actually wanted to solve it.
Bob: “Chaos is the goose. Money is the golden egg.”
Let’s Wrap It Up
The Left’s mind-reading is a parlor trick — cheap, predictable, and always wrong. Ours, when we bother to try it, feels less like guesswork and more like diagnosis. Their mind-reading is a cartoon. Ours is a mirror.
But the real question is why. Why cling so tightly to projection? Three reasons:
1. It works.
2. They love scary stories.
3. It locks in their followers.
The party of Hollywood doesn’t aim for truth; it aims for persuasion. Their mission is to convince their audience that conservatives are villains — evil, stupid, dangerous, and out to get you. Once the story is sold, they can’t walk it back. That would be heresy in the church of motive-assignment.
Conservatives don’t need that script. We can point to what we see: broken schools, open borders, collapsing cities. The failures are self-evident. Which brings us to crime. Why don’t Democratic leaders want Trump sending federal help into their cities? Their media allies say local officials “have it handled” (false). They claim “crime is going down” (the books are cooked). They argue the feds “have no jurisdiction” (they do). Anything to avoid admitting the truth: their cities are drowning in crime, and their policies have failed.
And here’s their nightmare: Trump has already tested his solution. In Washington, D.C., crime was rampant. Within a month of federal intervention, the city became virtually crime-free.
Less than a month.
Now ask yourself: what would happen if Trump did the same in Chicago, Philadelphia, or Oakland? The Left’s entire mind-reading racket would collapse overnight. The headlines would write themselves: Trump fixed in weeks what Democrats couldn’t fix in decades.
Their heads would explode.
That’s why Brandon Johnson and every other Democratic mayor will fight to the death to stop it. Not because it would fail — but because it would succeed. And success would expose their story as the fraud it has always been.
If Trump can bend the Middle East toward peace, what are the odds he couldn’t break the back of gang violence in Chicago?
Johnson doesn’t fear the failure of his own policies — he’s lived with that for years.
He fears the proof that Trump’s success would make him irrelevant.
In the end, the bad guys always hate the truth.
Grook: When They Hide the Truth
The lie is quick,
the truth is slow,
yet both arrive
and both will show.
The lie brings cheers,
the truth brings tears,
but only truth
outlives the years.