ARE YOU SHOCKED? – AT 1:31 P.M. ET:    Conservatives talk about this all the time.  Now we have some statistical proof.  From College Fix: 

Another college survey about politics and free speech is out, and it shows that the most intolerant students on campus are those aligned with the Democratic Party.

According to The Dartmouth Survey, when it comes to someone who holds different political beliefs, Dartmouth University students who identify as Democrats are nearly two times as likely not to date such a person compared to Republican students.

They’re also four times as likely not to trust such an individual, and almost six times as likely not to make friends with him/her.

Democrats also are much less likely than Republican students to study and work on course projects with those of differing ideology.

The Dartmouth notes feelings about free speech show a similar partisan divide. While 63 percent of Democrats believe free speech on campus is “very or somewhat secure,” only 21 percent of Republicans feel likewise.

COMMENT:  In truth, this isn't a new problem.  It didn't begin with Trump's election or Obama's emergence on the political scene.  Liberal Democrats have always had a kind of swagger, a sense of moral superiority, but it's gotten much worse in recent years.  And they have had a willing press behind them. 

In 1948 the Democratic Party essentially expelled the far left, led by former Vice President Henry Wallace, leaving responsible liberals in charge.  Sadly, the hard left started returning to the party in the late sixties, led by elements of the civil-rights and women's movements, and aided by "anti-war" types who were often nurtured by Marxist groups.  The intolerance of anyone who disagreed went off the charts.

Bill Clinton tried to move the party back toward the center, and it worked for a time.  But Obama went full- throttle left, and presented himself as a superior demigod.  That is where we stand now.  The party of demigods can't understand how the deplorable won the election.  Shunning them, rather than engaging with them, is entirely logical from their point of view.  Besides, some of the deplorables wear overalls rather than designer jeans.  How can one?

May 22, 2018