I don't know how you talk about it without talking about the illiberalism from both the right and and the left. What we have is a small number of people who have successfully achieved enough power to shut down the larger majority. I do think, again, that a lot of this is more an a leak phenomeon than it is a mass phenomenon. And if we have actually numbers on our side, ah, then there is at least some hope for the fever to break.
Elements on both the left and right are tracking in the same illiberal direction on economic regulation, the First Amendment, and on radical rhetoric. Plus, the NatCons’ plan to get the country to go full Trump. Stephanie Slade joins Charlie Sykes today.