Stealth Extremism: Mainstream Democrat Institutions Do Things Their Own Base Thinks Are Just Wingnut Propaganda

We could, of course, add: DEI-based racial discrimination including race-based hiring, promotion of de facto (or at least quasi-) open borders, indoctrination of various kinds--including "gender" ideology, CRT, climate apocalypticism, etc. (including: of children), using tax dollars to fund highly-politicized leftist NGOS, tolerating welfare fraud by left-favored populations...and I suspect we'll eventually discover: widespread electoral fraud...:

This is what I dubbed "stealth extremism": mainstream liberal institutions, including the Democratic Party, routinely doing stuff their own supporters dismiss as an urban legend, because no one would *do* that https://t.co/eiNh9o7gTL https://t.co/Ynxei0aTj7

— Megan McArdle (@asymmetricinfo) February 17, 2026