“I am beginning to call liberals Secular Puritans. They are the .... in the Punchbowl.”
Secular Puritans, I like that.
It fits the mentality perfectly.
And the punch bowl...quite right.
Or the nugget that won’t go no matter how many times you flush.
Secular Puritans have the haunting fear someone, somewhere might have liberty. A twist of the Mencken quote concerning Puritans.