While I'm definitely not a Republican anymore, stunts like this confirm for me that the Left's intolerance is as big a post-American problem as Trumpsim

 Something I've noticed about progressivism for the forty years since I became a conservative is the satisfaction that preening, grandstanding and assuming the authority to arbitrate what's acceptable and what's not gives to its adherents.

The latest example is this:

Penguin Random House on Monday said it is committed to publishing a coming book by Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett despite a dissenting online open letter that has garnered more than 600 signatures, including many from the publishing world.

The letter, which asks Penguin Random House to re-evaluate its decision to publish the book, argues that Justice Barrett’s vote in June in favor of overturning Roe v. Wade represented an attack on human rights, including the rights to “privacy, self determination, and bodily autonomy along with the federal right to an abortion in the United States.”

By Monday afternoon, the letter had attracted more than 625 signatures from authors, translators and agents. The signatories included more than 75 who identified themselves as Penguin Random House employees. The publisher employs approximately 11,000 globally, including more than 5,000 in the U.S., according to the company. 

The book is being published by the Sentinel imprint of Bertelsmann SE’s Penguin Random House. “We remain fully committed to publishing authors who, like Justice Barrett, substantively shape today’s most important conversations,” said Adrian Zackheim, publisher of Sentinel, a leading conservative house, in the publisher’s first public comments on the situation.

Mr. Zackheim said Justice Barrett’s book is still being written and would likely be published in 2024. Although he declined to provide details about the work’s content, Politico in April 2021 described it as focused on why judges shouldn’t allow their decisions to be shaped by personal feelings. 

A Penguin Random House spokeswoman said Mr. Zackheim was speaking on behalf of Penguin Random House U.S. On Monday, PEN America issued a statement rejecting calls to cancel the book. Penguin Random House is the world’s largest consumer book publisher.  

Efforts to reach Justice Barrett were unsuccessful. 

Never mind Justice Barrett's remarkable career as a jurist, let alone her success in the other roles in her life, such as wife, mother and person of faith.  To the Left, the fact that she voted on Dobbs based on her understanding that the reasoning behind Roe was faulty renders anything else about her moot.

The you-will-get-your-mind-right determination of progressives to eradicate any dissenting perspective is every bit as poisonous as the lunacy that Trumpism has wrought. 

That's why, a week out, I'm still planning to sit out the midterm elections.