What Liberals Fear

Published: June 9, 2022, 9:31 a.m.

We all know liberals live in fear. We are all aware of their over-the-top responses to certain words and ideas. What most of us do not understand is this fear that grips liberals? Where does it come from, why cannot it be assuaged by kind words or the assurance we want nothing from them? Why would just the image of Trump create trauma, but images of starving children be used callously for political ends? What triggers this outrage on one end and apathy at the other? What is the source of liberal fear? But also, what is the source of liberal apathy to the things that ought to bother them?