Thread by @JewhadiTM

Does an illiberal Left call for an illiberal Right? washex.am/2Wm8K9P

Yes, it is time for the American Right to be terrified.

The other side is out for blood, and they have academia, the media, corporate America, and one of the two major political parties on their side.

The Left used to frame its mission in the culture wars as trying to end the stranglehold of religion and traditional values. Now it is obvious the Left wants to drum the dissenters out of the public square using whatever tools it can, including state power.

While claims of “bigotry” had been wielded before, the Left was already forging new branding irons with which to stamp ideas they didn’t like as intolerable. Conservative speech became “violence.” Articulating a conservative view became “denying some people the right to exist.”

These extreme and false characterizations of conservative views allow the Left to not merely oppose these views, but to punish anyone who holds them.

Almost as if to flex their muscle — to demonstrate their strength to bend language in Orwellian ways — liberals use this phrase to attack pro-lifers.

They posit, with great unintentional irony, that those opposing the termination of an unborn child's life are the ones trying to deny another's right to exist.

Disney and NBC Universal, the parent companies of ABC and NBC, have threatened to boycott Georgia if the state’s new law restricting abortion goes into effect. These incredibly powerful firms have concluded that the pro-life position is beyond the bounds of acceptable debate.

Twitter has consistently rejected pro-life advertisements as inappropriate, according to pro-life groups, while accepting ads from the abortion lobby without thinking twice.

Facebook, which knows a whole lot about you, will now share your info with reporters who want to whack you for having bad politics, no matter how insignificant you are.

Facing this massive enemy, conservatives like Matthew Schmitz, David French, Ross Douthat, Sohrab Ahmari, and others are debating just how nice conservatives should play.

Maybe the principles of small-l liberalism don’t apply when the other side hates you, wants to outlaw your very being, and has the support of the largest corporations in the world on its side.

Those corporations are increasingly willing to use their power — often monopoly power — to drive you and everyone who shares your beliefs out of the public square.

Does the Right need a robust reaction to the illiberal Left? Yes. And that response isn't to beg them to let us exist. The right response is to smash what's big, whether it be government or business.