Martin Gurri: "The Establishment Strikes Back--For Now"

On one read, I think this is right on target up to the final section ("Faced with such a potent agenda..."). As for that section...well, I'm not so optimistic. We're not facing an ordinary threat from the progressive, anti-liberal left, IMO. This is a Great Leap Forward in the Long March Through The Institutions... The identity politics has a natural grip on the young and otherwise over-emotional--and they've already had Lenin's "four years to teach the children..." And this left is adept at intimidation and brainwashing--and has hit on a fiendishly effective brainwashing strategy: introduce a flood of goofy terminology that presupposes your crazy theory, then insist that everyone else use that terminology because the older, more accurate terminology is "racist" (etc.). 

   I simply don't think that this wave of insane radicalism is going to subside even if sanity returns. We don't face a tide. We face a hostile force that has taken territory. Even if we manage to stop their advance, winning our land back will be much harder.

   But anyway--I really agree very much with the earlier parts of the essay.