Leftist Institutions Descend Into Hysteria and Madness: Ruy Teixeira Edition

The left, as we know, tends to take over organizations and institutions. And since the progressive left has been descending into spittle-flecked hysteria, it has tended to wreck the institutions in which it is a significant presence. This story Teixeira tells is exactly like the account we've gotten from the New York Times, The Washington Post, Facebook, Twitter...academia, of course...and innumerable others:

At age 70, he hasn’t changed his views on the importance of economic class. Yet he said CAP is being warped by a junior staff for whom identity politics is everything. “It’s become very hard to have a conversation about race and gender and trans issues, even crime and immigration,” Mr. Teixeira said. “You know, ‘How should the left handle these?’ There’s a default assumption about how you’re supposed to talk about these things, even the language. There’s a real chilling effect on all of these organizations.”
   He’s exhausted by internal staff politicking. “It’s just cloud cuckoo land,” Mr. Teixeira said. “The fact that nobody is willing to call b—, it just freaks me out.” He’s also frustrated by the lack of support he received for a project that aimed to unite the black and white working classes. “Nobody wanted to touch it,” he said. “You could tell. People were leery of talking about the white working class, as if it was de facto racist.”
   Wow, and you thought your office had issues. Last month the Intercept ran a story about similar woke meltdowns inside groups like the Sierra Club and the Guttmacher Institute.
   “A lot of staff that work for me, they expect the organization to be all the things: a movement, OK, get out the vote, OK, healing, OK, take care of you when you’re sick, OK,” complained an anonymous executive director. “Can you get your love and healing at home, please? But I can’t say that, they would crucify me.”
   These are signs of political and cultural sickness. How do lefty outfits expect to achieve anything if they spend their time trying to decolonize their own HR handbooks? Sorry, the Guttmacher Institute isn’t your mommy.

This is Ruy Teixeira we're talking about. Not some fringe dude. Not some despicable centrist [spit]. An icon of the American left--or near to it. Ruy Teixeira is insufficiently woke to work at lefty policy outfits today. He had to go to AEI to do his thing. 

   Of course if this were just one case it could be explained away...

   ...but it's not just one case...