2016 Postmortem

canard and bashed Dems over the head with it.

You hit the nail on the head when you point out that what the right has deemed "political correctness" is nothing more than the simple expectation of human decency.

Political correctness is the expectation that I may go to work and not be smacked on the butt if my male boss is feeling "frisky" today.
Political correctness means I can expect to be called by my name, just like my male coworkers instead of "honey" or "sweet cheeks."
Political correctness means it's not okay to give a black person a bucket of chicken and a watermelon or a Native American a toy tomahawk/headdress set and call it "just a joke" or pretend you were actually doing them a kindness.
Political correctness asserts that racial profiling is wrong, and we shouldn't target entire ethnic groups based on xenophobia and fear.

Political correctness is the rejection and shaming of words like bitch, nigger, kike, Chink, wet-back, half-breed, dyke, rag-head, from our public discourse.

Anyone who says we have too much human decency (political correctness) in our public discourse is by the very nature of that statement calling for less human decency in our society and a return to these behaviors.

It is the wrong direction for the country, gleefully promoted by an orange vulgarian and his band of deplorables. That anyone calling themselves a "progressive" would join with that is reprehensible and an offense to the majority of Americans.

It is the wrong direction for Democrats and progressives; unless they truly wish to become shadows of the deplorables and lap-dogs to Trump. I will not. I will resist.