THE LIBERAL CRACKUP – AT 12:53 P.M. ET:  We're reading more and more stories, some of them from liberals, acknowledging that there's a kind of intellectual crackup on the left.  Liberals, these pieces say, are destroying themselves.  I say, don't stop them.  From Legal Insurrection:  

Gerald Alexander, an associate professor of politics at the University of Virginia, recently wrote an article for the New York Times suggesting that when it comes to Trump, liberals are their own worst enemies. It has become a common joke for conservatives on Twitter to respond to liberal lunacy by saying “Do you want more Trump? Because this is how you get more Trump.”

That idea forms the essence of Professor Alexander’s column:

Liberals, You’re Not as Smart as You Think

I know many liberals, and two of them really are my best friends. Liberals make good movies and television shows. Their idealism has been an inspiration for me and many others. Many liberals are very smart. But they are not as smart, or as persuasive, as they think.

And a backlash against liberals — a backlash that most liberals don’t seem to realize they’re causing — is going to get President Trump re-elected.

People often vote against things instead of voting for them: against ideas, candidates and parties. Democrats, like Republicans, appreciate this whenever they portray their opponents as negatively as possible. But members of political tribes seem to have trouble recognizing that they, too, can push people away and energize them to vote for the other side. Nowhere is this more on display today than in liberal control of the commanding heights of American culture…

Alexander offers many examples of how liberals are causing people to resent them, including the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, recent criticism of Kanye West, false accusations of racism, and the enforcement of concepts like microaggressions in academia.

COMMENT:  Read the whole thing.  It's worth it.  Liberals have become a liability to liberalism.  They've almost become French.  And, increasingly, the American people are ignoring them, if not turning against them altogether. 

The worst offenders are the liberal journalists.  They are losing influence more quickly than airlines lose baggage.   I just hope they continue their antics through the midterms in November. 

May 15, 2018