BUT THAT WOULD INTERFERE WITH THE SMUGNESS:

For now, liberal media is filled with doomsy prognostics and rise-up protest pieces as progressives exhort their people to form a sort of moral fifth column against the Trump regime. It’s a group, says Guardian writer Steven Thrasher, that will give “hell to anyone who tries to normalize the racist, misogynist, xenophobic bully who will soon be president.”

But if they truly want change, the left needs to move beyond a feelings-based platform for something far more tangible and effective.

At best, social justice folks should trade their victim-based ideology for a movement far more rooted in accountability and achievement rather than suffering. At the very least, progressives must learn to contend with — and ultimately sympathize with — feelings other than their own.

He’s right, but I’m not holding my breath on this one.