As the organized Left gained cultural power, it turned into a monster that found perpetual victimhood, combined with thought and speech control, the most efficient way to hold on to that power. Suddenly it was the Left, the protector of liberty, that was setting rules about what could and could not be said or even thought.
The New Thought Police: Inside the Left's Assault on Free Speech and Free Minds (ed. Crown, 2010) - ISBN: 9780307558589