They may not wear the white bonnets and buckled shoes that their ancestors donned for the Salem witch trials. But today, many of the people who identify as politically liberal are creating a similarly oppressive atmosphere, ready to raise a mob against anyone who says the wrong thing.
That’s the view of David Rubin, who hosts the Rubin Report, one of YouTube’s most popular programs about free speech. He says that the political left has abandoned the values on which the United States was built. Leftists threaten to label anyone who steps out of line as a Nazi. Their regressive ideology and baseless self-victimization threaten their nation’s melting pot ideals and guaranteed freedom of speech.
Will empty outrage replace democracy? We examine Rubin’s claims about the state of the left in our Instaread on Don’t Burn This Book.