When your 18-year-old daughter implies you’re an insensitive jerk, it’s mildly annoying. When some of the most powerful and far-reaching institutions in American life make that case over and over again for years on end about an ever-expanding list of issues — well, that’s enough to turn a town full of voters into Trumpkins.
Just as the European Union’s attempt to do away with forms of national solidarity is (paradoxically) inspiring a resurgence of nationalism across the continent, so the understandable drive to forge a multicultural America committed to affirming differences has sparked an equal-and-opposite anti-multicultural backlash.
That’s what the opposition to political correctness is all about — and one powerful reason why, despite the dramatic ups and downs of his quixotic campaign for president, Donald Trump has managed to rally so many to his cause.
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