"Liberal Values Won't Prevail if People Aren't Willing to Speak Up for Them"

"The anti-anti-PC columns propose numerous psychological theories to explain the perverse motivation of the moderate liberals and (generally) anti-Trump conservatives who talk too much about the campus left. We have supposedly given aid and comfort to the far right, which has deftly exploited the excesses of the campus left.
"My response is that the right is attempting to discredit liberalism by attaching it to the illiberal left, and the proper response, both morally and politically, is to separate the two. It's obvious to me why conservatives want everybody who’s alienated by the callout culture to self-identify as a conservative. It's less obvious to me why liberals should also want that."

Jonathan Chait at New York writes that "[i]f your only response to your side's shortcomings is the comparative evil of the other side, then eventually the level of your standards will sink to theirs."