Every revolution begins the same way. Groups that despise each other in theory find common cause in practice. What unites them is not a shared utopia, for each faction’s dream society contradicts the other’s, but a shared hatred of the society they live in.

History is littered with these unholy alliances. The French Jacobins and Girondins joined hands until the guillotine decided which was more righteous. The Bolsheviks and Mensheviks tolerated each other just long enough for Lenin’s side to seize power and purge the rest. In Iran, Islamists and communists marched together to overthrow the Shah, only for the ayatollahs to crush their allies once the monarchy fell.

The pattern is unmistakable. First, coalitions form around the single goal of destruction. Second, once that goal is achieved, the strongest faction turns on yesterday’s comrades. Third, the purge is justified in the name of ‘true revolutionary ideals’.

We are witnessing the same pattern today in the West. Look at the alliance of LGBTQ activists, radical feminists, Islamists, and socialists. Each group’s vision of utopia flatly contradicts the others. No socialist state of the 20th Century allowed the sexual liberties celebrated by LGBTQ activists. Feminists who fought for women’s spaces now find themselves silenced when male-bodied athletes claim female titles. And in Islamic law, openly defended by some of today’s progressive politicians, homosexuality is not tolerated but punishable by death.

Why then do these groups march together? Because they share the same enemy: Western Civilisation itself. They will set aside their contradictions for as long as the common project of dismantling the West continues.

The tactic is as cynical as it is effective. They weaponise Western freedoms against the very society that protects them. Ilhan Omar demands ‘free speech’ protections while championing an ideology that would criminalise it. Politicians such as Zohran Mamdani cheer for LGBTQ rights while also defending Islamic law, under which those very people would be persecuted. Socialists extol tolerance while allying with those who historically slaughtered them.

They know that compassion can be turned into a weapon. Illegal border crossings become acts of ‘courage’. Laws designed to protect citizens become cudgels against them. The taxpayer foots the bill for shelter, food, and medical care for those who broke the law as their very first act on entering the country, while being told that to question this arrangement is cruel.

But there is no compassion without priority. A government that does not first serve its citizens ceases to be a government of its people. And there is no justice without harshness. Every society must draw lines, and every line excludes someone. Pretending otherwise is not mercy; it is moral sabotage.

The danger is not only in what these coalitions seek to destroy but in what comes after. History shows us the aftermath: the strongest and most ruthless faction will emerge, claim the mantle of ‘true revolutionary purity’, and dispose of its allies. The guillotine, the gulag, the firing squad, these are not accidents, but the natural fruits of revolutions built on destruction rather than truth.

That is the warning for us now. We must learn to see through the mask. When groups with irreconcilable beliefs link arms, it is not because they have discovered a higher principle of harmony. It is because they share a single animating spirit: the will to tear down the civilisation that shelters them.

And if we lack the courage to name this for what it is, we will one day discover, too late, that the purge has already begun.