Your belief that rational discourse with leftists is productive is both touching and quaint.
But wrong.
They don’t need a reason.
They want what they want when they want it.
They see fairness as weakness.
(I have lived in the NE, including at “elite” educational institutions, for all of my life. They would take all your stuff in a second if they got the chance, and accuse you of being a (fill in the blank) while doing it.)
If we can’t have rational discourse then the country is already lost. Shake the etch-a-sketch and try again.