A huge portion of the energy from the Left and from the news media is policing our speech, but the speech police don’t actually believe in their own rules. The rules are not guidelines for speech but rather ad hoc traps laid for ideological opponents so as to call them sexist and avoid substantive debate on issues.

We got a reminder of this today from Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Here’s her tweet knocking Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia.