And So It Begins:: Jonathan Chait: How Liberal America Came To Its Senses

Chait is alright.

He got dogpiled by the shrieking banshee horde for his long-ago piece "Not a Very PC Thing to Say." He seemed shaken by that, and seemed--to me anyway--to move leftward/wokeward...probably to save his career.

I tried to email him once, and he was kind of an asshole.

But, hey, NBD.

Anyway:

My advice, consistent with what I've said for a long, long time: 

Eschew irrational exuberance.

Political correctness (Chait uses the correct term), or Woketarianism, or the illiberal left, or the Cult, or whatever we want to call it is not dead yet.

It still exercises great power over our institutions, and is virtually unchallenged in academia.

As I've noted many times: we thought we beat paleo-PC ca. the late '90s...only to have it rise again ca. 2013, crazier and much, much stronger. Almost out of the blue it took over the culture with a set of ideas so flat-out insane that it was virtually impossible to believe that anyone took them seriously...but it certainly seemed there for awhile like everyone did...

The Cult isn't dead.

It's just restin'

In fact, that isn't even clear.

DEI has taken a hit, transanity has taken a hit, and the election of Trump is a real body blow...but neo-PC is not down, and it's not out.

Returning to the status quo ante is not going to be easy.

They'll fight a rearguard action, and fight viciously to keep some of the territory they've gained.

Even if we do completely drive them back, in all probability they'll rise again in a few years and try again to destroy us.

Remember that the--or one of the--hearts of this beast is Marxism.

And that shit has been trying to destroy us for 150 years.

Even if, a few years from now, we can declare victory, the odds that this plague of madness will be gone for good are small, IMO.

Not to be a wet blanket--I'm very, very happy that we've struck back.

But don't get cocky.