Did Garland Just "Tip Over The Dominoes"?

Maybe

   People opposed to postmodern progressivism keep saying that its collapse is inevitable. But I'm skeptical. I do think that facts are stubborn things, and the truth has a power to out itself. And paleo-PC finally went too far in the '90s, and centrist liberals stopped defending it. My view about that story is that the "Antioch rules" (Antioch students had to ask permission at every point of...what?...escalation?...during sex) were a bridge too far. And Clinton's "Sister Soulja" "moment" was also pivotal. But Sister Soulja would be an unremarkable lefty by today's standards--and the Anitoch rules now have something like the force of law at schools everywhere. Neo-PC is about twice as crazy as paleo-PC was. And it's taken over all our institutions, not merely universities. And it's being enforced by our "moderate" president. And needless to say, Biden will have no Clintonesque "moment." I don't think anyone should be confident that we're going to win this battle for the mind of the nation any time soon. Or, y'know, at all. Even if we do win, the history of PC suggests that the victory will be partial, and the PC mythologists and thought-police will likely just retire to universities, where their power is virtually unchallenged. There they'll plan their next assault on reality and humanity. They'll lose some ground, but not all that they've won, and next time they'll win more. 

   I want to think we're destined to win. But I don't. Eventually they or some other reality-denying lot will win enough to at least bring down the country. A new dark age is a real possibility. Even if reason wins at some further-future date, humanity might have to endure a hundred or a thousand years of antirational madness first. I'd count that as a loss. Rebuilding the liberal (broadly construed) order from scratch...the mind shudders...

   I'd also like to think that Garland's totalitarian use of the coercive power of the state to squelch the speech of perfectly reasonable, ordinary parents who don't want their children indoctrinated with the left's new religion is itself a bridge too far. But it's really not that much worse than any number of other actions taken by the left. But it's another straw putting weight on the camel's back--I think that's undeniable.