It’s become trendy to chide liberals for unwittingly egging on Donald Trump’s supporters: Lamenting the president’s hold on a sizable chunk of the electorate, #NeverTrump Republican Tom Nichols last week tweeted that “hyper-privileged college students pissing on the Constitution and whining about their fellow students is a big part of how we ended up in this mess in the first place.”
The Atlantic’s firing of conservative writer Kevin D. Williamson “is how you got Trump,” according to the Daily Wire’s Ben Shapiro. Per Shapiro, MSNBC’s Chris Hayes tweeting Tuesday that “Roseanne” was canceled because “she far too authentically represented the actual worldview of a significant chunk of the Trump base” is also “how you got Trump.