A platform for sense and decency … and smackdowns of reactionaries

Yet again liberals are blamed for attitudes and choices of Trump voters.

The academy has again blamed me for choices made by others. I’m an easy target; I’m an urban liberal. (Detractors throw in “elitist” but, as with much public discourse, it’s unclear what that means other than, naturally, that it’s intended as a slur. Whatever the case, I’m once more getting something wrong.) It happened before. […]