Democrats still tied to political correctness which led to Trump's win in 2016

Glenn Harlan Reynolds:

Democrats are hoping to administer a tough midterm-election blow to the Republicans — akin to the “shellacking” President Barack Obama got from the Tea Party in 2010 — as a means of shutting down President Donald Trump. But it’s looking iffy now, post-Kavanaugh, and if they fail, they’ll have the politically correct culture that has moved from college campuses into the Democratic Party to blame.

As I wrote in these pages back before the 2016 election, opposition to PC culture was a major source of Trump’s appeal to voters. While most politicians, even Republican politicians, were afraid to challenge it head-on, Trump was unafraid, mocking the PC social justice warriors even on their own ground.

Since Trump’s election, the response among Democrats has been to double down. After all, if Trump’s against politically correct culture, then they have to be for it. But that puts them right where Trump wants them to be, because PC culture is highly unpopular.

Don’t just take my word for it. Here’s what a recent article in The Atlantic, with the title "Americans strongly dislike PC culture" says:

“Among the general population, a full 80 percent believe that ‘political correctness is a problem in our country.’ Even young people are uncomfortable with it, including 74 percent ages 24 to 29, and 79 percent under age 24. On this particular issue, the woke are in a clear minority across all ages. Youth isn’t a good proxy for support of political correctness — and it turns out race isn’t, either. Whites are ever so slightly less likely than average to believe that political correctness is a problem in the country: 79 percent of them share this sentiment. Instead, it is Asians (82 percent), Hispanics (87 percent) and American Indians (88 percent) who are most likely to oppose political correctness.”

So political correctness is overwhelmingly unpopular with the vast majority outside of “woke” social-justice culture of progressive activists, which The Atlantic article tells us make up about 8 percent of the population.

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But it’s still a problem, because although the woke are a minority, they have a lot of influence in academia and journalism (which they dominate), and in the corporate world, where the demands of activists are usually acceded to, and where HR departments are staffed with sympathizers.

Thus we have a large group of Americans — at 80 percent, we could call it a silent supermajority — that feels pushed around by what turns out to be about 8 percent of the population. You’d expect that to be the end of things, as every sensible politician would want to take the side of the 80 percent over the 8 percent. But it’s not that simple.
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There is more.

Chuck Schumer has read the polls, but the rest of his party seems to be tied to political correctness.  It is especially present in the media who use it to take Trump with glee.  One of their cute tricks since Trump's election is to claim that some of the things Trump says have no evidence to support them, yet they make no effort to find it.  That was true with his claims about the migrant marchers from Honduras and elsewhere.  There are plenty of reports suggesting that people other than just Hondurans are in the march, but the media acts as if those reports do not exist.