GOP Turns Political Correctness Into Straw Man

Dana Millbank: “The notion of political correctness became popular on college campuses a quarter-century ago but has recently grown into the mother of all straw men. Once a pejorative term applied to liberals’ determination not to offend any ethnic or other identity group, it now is used lazily by some conservatives to label everything classified under ‘that with which I disagree.’ GOP candidates are now using the ‘politically correct’ label to shut down debate — exactly what conservatives complained politically correct liberals were doing in the first place.”