Britain’s rightwing tabloids issue frequent denunciations of “political correctness gone mad” and rail against the smug hypocrisy of the “metropolitan elite”. In France, Marine Le Pen of the Front National has condemned more traditional conservatives as “paralysed by their fear of confronting political correctness”. Some have argued that Hillary Clinton failed because she was too invested in that close relative of political correctness, “identity politics”. In truth, these crusaders against political correctness were every bit as political as their opponents. They were not reacting to the tyranny of political correctness, nor were they returning America to a previous phase of its history.

Source: The Guardian November 30, 2016 06:00 UTC