Progressives often follow a particular pattern when they want to dismiss a phenomenon that challenges their beliefs. The writer Rob Henderson summed it up in a tweet in 2021: “Step 1: It’s not really happening Step 2: Yeah, it’s happening, but it’s not a big deal Step 3: It’s a good thing, actually Step 4: People freaking out about it are the real problem.” This was the left’s archetypal response to any number of excesses and abuses perpetrated under the banner of social justice, including cancel culture, the outbursts of violence during the so-called racial reckoning of 2020, and the violations of even basic fairness at the peak of the #MeToo movement.
Wednesday, January 14, 2026
How progressives dismiss challenges
An article in The Atlantic magazine starts:
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Logical consistency is not a strong progressive trait, as words tend to mean whatever they want them to from moment to moment, regardless of how it makes their own arguments absurd. Progressives like to have their cake and eat it too...and then blame someone else for stealing it as they clutch their pearls.
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