Excellent documentation of the intolerance and discrimination of the illiberal left. ( )

The author is a liberal and she works for Fox News. She says she's kept in balance any time she tries to spin something in her reports. She gives a lot of examples, (a whole book full), of the illiberal agenda, (her terminology), their tactics, hypocrisy, and contradictions.
pg. 33 "The illiberal left doesn't desire debate, it wants a monologue on one side and silence on the other."
pg. 37 Colbert King columnist for Washington Post..."by thought, word and deed, they must be making Jefferson Davis proud today." (he obviously doesn't know his history otherwise he'd know how stupid this comment is based on Jefferson Davis' wife).
pg. 61 Affleck felt "muslims were being painted with too broad a brush." Which shows his ignorance of the ideology of islam.
pg. 193 "For the illiberal left, facts don't matter, only ideology does, and vilifying your opponents."
pg. 196 "Remember, the same illiberal feminist who think it is no big deal to kick an innocent man out of college, trash his reputation, and harm his future job prospects on the basis of false accusations are also likely to think that if a woman has to walk past an anti-abortion demonstration on campus she has suffered grievous harm."
pg. 197-8 "Illiberal feminists seem at war with nature, with the facts, and with truth. Most of all they are at war with the freedom of speech and of legal due process that allows us to find the truth."
she ends the book with Make some unlikely friends. ( )

A pretty good accounting of what Powers calls the "illiberal left," i.e., leftists who try to shut up people that they don't agree with. She wrote this in 2015, but it has snowballed into an even worse problem since then. Lots of examples to make you angry, grouped roughly together by chapter, but with no real introduction or conclusion to tie anything together, and no real call to action. And, Powers isn't a conservative, which makes this book different, she is a Democrat who worked in the Clinton administration (though, she has recently embraced Catholicism, which probably disqualifies her from being a real liberal/leftist in the eyes of some of the progressives). ( )

I wish that I could afford to buy everyone a copy of this book. It is a sharp and penetrating analysis, with full documentation of a political movement in the USA that has been around from the beginning of the Republic. As a nation, we owe much to the liberals and liberalism even if we haven't always agreed with the direction this movement has taken. Powers has documented a sharp turn in the path liberalism is taking and presents the obvious question for the reader to ask: WHY? Thinking and persuasion are being replaced with nothing except blockheadedness. Contrary to the proud history of liberalism, this changed political philosophy has turned to close-mindedness and condemnation of those who are not eager lemmings. ( )