Jim, I see it more simply. The people I know who are “progressives,” have the mistaken belief that they are so much smarter than the body of our citizenry (and by extension that the rest of us are too stupid and ill-informed to be allowed to govern ourselves), that they should have the self-subscribed “right” to govern the rest of us. While I truly believe that Conservatism and Capitalism, hand in hand offer the best life for the most people, I never say that directly. It is not so for “progressives,” who “just know that they are right” and don’t mind telling you so. They have also honed to perfection the process of “being offended about just about everything.” You can’t tell one of them a joke without their somehow twisting something that’s light-hearted into some unintended slight, racial slur, etc.
Liberals ...have made politics their religion... What they really want is liberal Sharia law, a secular theocracy.
The minimum wage, gender equality, nationalized health care, and global warming—whatever their practical virtues—are not just expedient policy prescriptions. They are essential aspects of the liberal fatwa. ...Question them and you are not just wrong—you are a heretic.
You wonder why the left is having a nervous breakdown in the wake of Trump's election? It is because, for them, politics is the means to secular salvation. This means that, to them, political failure is not just a setback on the road to a more stable society—it is a blow to their very worldview.
Trump, despite news to the contrary, is unifying great swaths of people regardless of color, personal proclivities, religion etc. This success in disproving leftist dogma makes them angrier.
Some men, you can't reach. However, for those open to a better way of life unshackled from toxic leftist dogma, MAGA must continue and thrive.