Still, it’s one thing to be upset about political correctness. It’s another to make it your singular reason for voting for a boorish, transparently unqualified president. Where I saw liberal condescension as one factor among many that drew Republicans to Trump, it’s astonishing to see some on the right assert that conservatives are so triggered by liberals that it caused them to run headlong into Trump’s arms. If that’s true, then Trump conservatives should reflect on what it says about them that they pulled the lever for Trump simply because they don’t like how liberals treat them…
Trump supporters, then, are left with a vote to settle an already overstated grievance about liberal condescension, coupled with a cosigning of all the president’s words and deeds. They may relish the way the president comports himself, but they’re also willing participants in an even greater condescension — going along with everyone who has defined them down to snowflakes whose issue positions can be sold to the highest bidder.
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