> How did an elite, repressive minority policing speech and culture through political correctness come to browbeat the American democratic majority?
Setting aside whether or not this situation is good, the author clearly thinks it is not, or even accurately describes the situation, the answer to this sort of question can be found in this excerpt from "Skin In The Game" by Nassim Taleb:
https://medium.com/incerto/the-most-intolerant-wins-the-dict...