Totalitarian wokeness cost liberals their common sense

Published July 23, 2021 4:00am ET



In The Bonfire of the Vanities, novelist Tom Wolfe wrote if a conservative is a liberal who has been mugged, then a liberal is a conservative who has been arrested. But then, what name would he give to the path of disillusionment Maud Maron, like many others, is now treading?

A far-left career activist, Bernie Sanders supporter, and one-time research assistant for Black Panther Party activist Kathleen Cleaver, Maron has been unjustly hounded out of her career defending indigent criminal defendants in New York City.

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