Brookings Institution scholar William A. Glaston, as quoted in a
Washington Post article by Tummulty and Johnson, on the subject of political correctness.
Driving powerful sentiments underground is not the same as expunging them. What we’re learning from Trump is that a lot of people have been biting their lips, but not changing their minds.
Stop biting ... start acting. The same article quotes GOP strategist Steve Schmidt about the unwillingness to confront Muslim extremists.
What animates ISIS is an apocalyptic religious philosophy. People look at that and don’t understand the unwillingness to say red is red and blue is blue. We live in a post-fact America, where the facts are subordinate to the advancement of an ideology.
Schmidt is talking about our President's fear of an anti-Muslim backlash.
