Some of the IDW is part of what I’d call the liberal reaction to progressivism. It’s rallying around entertaining all points of view in the marketplace of ideas, in a reaction to the left’s attempt to prevent left-liberal institutions from feeding the trolls, which more traditional liberals interpret as a dangerous attempt to suppress discourse—and naturally, the left-liberals who buy the progressive argument will tend to read efforts targeted at introducing maximally presentable versions of a set of ideas that seem to be objectionable in approximately the same direction as an attempt to move discourse in that direction.
Some of the IDW is part of what I’d call the liberal reaction to progressivism. It’s rallying around entertaining all points of view in the marketplace of ideas, in a reaction to the left’s attempt to prevent left-liberal institutions from feeding the trolls, which more traditional liberals interpret as a dangerous attempt to suppress discourse—and naturally, the left-liberals who buy the progressive argument will tend to read efforts targeted at introducing maximally presentable versions of a set of ideas that seem to be objectionable in approximately the same direction as an attempt to move discourse in that direction.