The Anti-Anti-Left

Critics of the Trumpist right must not excuse left-wing illiberalism and extremism

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In recent years, those of us who have criticized leftist excesses — be it “cancel mobs” on campus or online, Antifa violence, morally troubling iconography, or assorted episodes of identity politics gone mad — have often been chided for a misplaced sense of priorities in the age of Donald Trump…