That is to say, liberals are against tragedy. This is one of the reasons they’ve gained so much ground in recent decades. Another reason is that once they established tragedy as something we can reasonably expect to avoid, they began defining more and more things as tragic. Whereas once upon a time things like wars or plane crashes were considered tragic, now everything from “misgendering” someone, to the emergence of Trump, to having to deal with post-nasal drip is considered tragic.

Politics today is no longer about the very real work of dealing with things like infrastructure, wars, and taxes, but the ongoing and all-consuming effort to avoid tragedy. The idea on the left today is that tragedy is something that can be escaped—to claim otherwise is considered heresy. 

Consequently, every small resistance to the building of the liberal leviathan is considered aiding and abetting a potential tragedy. Don’t think men can become women? You are a hater and because of you people will die. Not crazy about abortion? Don’t you know people are incapable of using contraception and that because of your obduracy people will die? Like Trump? Worlds will collide, and people will die. Women can’t have it all every second of every hour of every day? Expect in answer to hear, “I know someone who lost out on a promotion. She died.” MSNBC should be called MSTRAGEDY.