This is rage-inducing...

1. Progressive movement builds
2. Reactionary and right wing voices incite a backlash based on strawmen and bad faith fearmongering
3. Backlash goes too far; bad shit happens
4. Reactionary and right wing voices blame progressives
Reposted from Michael Hobbes
First, the activist ‘overreach’ mostly consisted of low-stakes, cherry-picked anecdotes. The police were not defunded. Words were not banned. White men were not barred from college.

The backlash is responding to the *possibility* of social change, not actual change.

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