American liberals, in a desperate panic after 2016, injected themselves with the toxic brain virus called Critical Theory. It seemed like a smart move at the time: unleash the academic Red Guard on all their opponents, have them attacked with a barrage of bigotry accusations and threatened with loss of jobs and status unless they obeyed, then seed every institution in the country with loyal allies, all to regain even more power than the power that the Orange Usurper stole. But now we're starting to see the side effects, one of the first being that liberals/Democrats seem to have picked up all the bad habits of the academic Marxists, the worst and ugliest being their style of thought: an obsession with rooting out ideological impurity and suppressing dissent; a worship of sacred dogma; the belief that anyone who disagrees isn't just mistaken but actively evil; an inability to compromise or accept good-faith disagreement (as in believing everyone not on your side suffers from some type of "false consciousness"); a bulletproof belief in their own moral and intellectual superiority; and the idea that every single moment and every single event (from your kids' bday party to a book you read to Thanksgiving at grandma's) is an intensely urgent political battle that must be fought to the death, so that good (THEM) prevails over evil (US). I don't know what's up ahead on the horizon, but people like this can't be reasoned with, they will not compromise, and they will gladly destroy anything or anyone in their way (including Matt Taibbi). At some point they will have to be actively, totally opposed, defeated, dislodged and discredited. They really offer no other choice.