SUDDENLY, NICHOLAS KRISTOF IS WORRIED. Stop the Knee-Jerk Liberalism That Hurts Its Own Cause. A thoughtful friend on Facebook comments: “A good article. But I fear it is too late for the old liberals. They let things go too far and they went too far themselves, virtually creating the successor generation of illiberal, authoritarian progressives. Increasingly, that generation has contempt for them and their old-fashioned liberal values. People like Kristof, whose honesty and basic decency I admire, sowed the wind. Now they reap the whirlwind. They are the Girondins who now face the fanaticism and ruthlessness of the Montagnards.”

Yep.

UPDATE: From the comments: “Kristof is wrong that Trump created liberal intolerance. His ascendency is the reaction against it.” Yes. In fact, Trump supporters should thank Antifa, et al., as they are terrific motivators for Trump’s voters, and, in fact, recruiters for the Trump coalition. It’s already reached the point where Trump, once considered a crazy man, now looks like the reasonable adult in the room.