I feel much the same as you here, Steve. Those we call progressives have sunk into the same sort of rigid conformity and orthodoxy as the other side. I believe this is what the other side calls "virtue signaling," showing that neologisms are an affliction at both poles.

But it's not new. The enlightened anti-racists in JFK's time were proud of themselves if they allowed a black person in their house. The bigotry was muted but it was still there.

I'm finding today's symmetries between the two poles to be increasingly disturbing. "Trump won" is no more absurd than "A man who declares one day that he's now a woman *is* a woman." Go against either in your respective group and you're anathema and blocked on social media.

This is not what I signed up for.

Yes Our Side is more open to a breadth of opinions but this orthodoxy seems to be more and more widespread.