QOTD -- The "Reasonable Right's Rhetoric"

"They present their concerns as, principally, freedom of speech and diversity of thought. [Columnist Bari] Weiss has called them 'renegade' ideological explorers who venture into 'dangerous' territory despite the 'outrage and derision' directed their way by haughty social gatekeepers. [snip]

"Thinking back on those debates, I finally figured it out. The reasonable right’s rhetoric is exactly the same as the antebellum rhetoric I’d read so much of. The same exact words. The same exact arguments. Rhetoric, to be precise, in support of the slave-owning South."  --  Eve Fairbanks, in a great read about the sudden concerns of the "reasonable rebels" on the right over "civility" and "free speech," and how they are heirs to the historic (and dangerous) tradition of "antebellum reasoning."