Kulturkampf

[HaughtyFrank]

The point is that the possibility of overreach is a price worth paying exactly because shame serves as a robustly liberal alternative to the political violence that Klein and company rightly abhor. Most of the alternatives involve either subjugation, combat, or both. Put another way: designating disrespect and denigration as beyond the pale, as grounds for exclusion from polite company, is “turning the temperature down.” Klein and others are helping to turn it up.

 
A right-wing man was shot and killed by a left-wing crackpot, after the left whipped its followers into a frenzy about impending, fascism (which the author adds to) and Kirk being "full of hate", a shooting many on the left outright celebrated and gravedsnced, and you're telling me milquetoast Ezra Klein is the one turning the temperature up?

If you disagree with me you're turning up the temperature. Stop turning up the temperature!