"Having spent so long feeling silenced by the liberal consensus, people in this group have been given a new lease of life by the right's new insurgents. Not only were they correct all along; they were actually victims, zealously persecuted by an oversensitive and censorious society. It is this righteous indignation that lends their antipathy to wokeness a defiant and almost celebratory quality. As a friend of mine puts it, we are living in 'bigot Christmas'."
At The Guardian, Ellie Mae O'Hagan warns that "[t]he social liberalism of the 90s is crumbling, and the people who hated it all along are finding their voice again."
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