Thread by @RadioFreeTom

People on the left ask me how the left contributed to where we are. That's a long answer that includes "read Mark Lilla," but I'd add:

- much of postmodernism was and is an undermining of basic knowledge and reason
- recasting everything in politics in terms of race/gender

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- years of obsession with the White House combined with ignoring local and state politics
- an intolerance bred on campuses that has escaped into mainstream Dem politics that alienates the normals
- cultishness that is in many cases nearly as bad as Trumpism

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But with all that said, the center-left does have a kind of rule-based, good-government foundation to it that I prefer over the win-at-all-costs rightist culture warriors. I have said repeatedly that the Democrats are the better stewards of the Constitution now.
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But there *is* an authoritarian streak in the left that has a pedigree that goes way back and is endemic to leftism, which believes generally in the government's ability to hasten the perfectability of human beings - always a terrifying thought. /4

Dems ignore this at their peril. But the GOP and the right is now openly a seditionist, anti-constitutional movement, and I'm with the Dems as a coalition partner. President Biden is not the leader of some liberal college's Young Socialists, and it's stupid to conflate them. /4x