Indignation at presumed lack of political correctness doesn't sell anymore as the US electorate showed the world by voting an in-your-face unapologetic Donald Trump as president.
Television host Bill Maher admitted recently he was wrong to treat George Bush and Mitt Romney as apocalyptic threats. The Left has called Republicans racist and misogynist for long; when an actual racist and misogynist appeared, it lost its credibility to make that accusation
OMG, did you just equate being polite with cancer? You are a bigot who just insulted millions afflicted with the illness. If that was your response, congratulations. You are one of the reasons why college-educated adults, who have been exposed to the Left’s stifling propaganda, voted for Donald Trump
The Left which cried wolf
While the example might sound innocuous, the problem is serious.
An American civil rights group recently tried to silence Muslim reformers and labelled them
‘anti-Muslim extremists’. The far-left has gained power in colleges and has used it to punish people for saying or thinking the wrong thing, wrote columnist Robby Soave
Culture War
The hard Left had bitten off way more than it can chew— even policing the pronouns people use— and was crumbling before the backlash, wrote columnist Jim Geraghty
Nobody votes for Trump or likes Trump on the basis of policy positions. That's a misunderstanding of what the Trump phenomenon is... (Trump is) an icon of irreverent resistance to political correctness Breitbart tech editor & Trump supporter Milo Yiannopoulos to Robby Soave (on Reason magazine’s website)