"Nugent’s temper rose and he began to yell at the reporter..."

[JHB]

15. RWers started making noises about "PC" at the precise moment in history when...

...not even the most dinosaurine of them could voice -- even among themselves -- the old claim that Liberals and Lefties were "on orders from Moscow" without being an embarassment to the entire conservative movement. That lazy, self-serving explanation for why people saw things differently from them became unsustainable.

So they created another one. Instead of being dupes or agents of a foreign power relentlessly seeking to undermine our society, they decided everyone to their left just existed in this weird ideological fog and a form of "holier than thou"-ism.