QOTD - Backlash

As the recent argument over "civility" has shown, we tend to treat conservative anger as something to be analyzed, understood, even empathized with, while liberal anger is greeted with stern lectures about proper behavior—and little or no attempt to plumb its depths. But more than ever before, liberal anger is something the political system is going to have to deal with. -- Paul Waldman in "The Liberal Backlash Is Coming." Waldman discusses how and why the politics of backlash, long a conservative strategy, is now a liberal phenomenon. Good read.