The quote is from an article at Reason.com aimed at Donald Trump. But in spite of the author’s aversion to common sense, the article is quite interesting, coming as it does with the following title, How Political Correctness Caused College Students to Cheer for Trump. You are advised to read it all, but this gets to the essence of the matter. I will say here that the author seems blinded by his own prejudices but notwithstanding any of that, he was still able to work some of this out:

College students and Trump supporters, have at least something in common: both groups are plagued by legitimate economic anxieties: middle-class job losses and burdensome loan debt, for example. But the argument can certainly be made that these concerns are trumped (pardon the pun) by cultural issues, at least as evidenced by the priorities of both groups. And when it comes to the culture wars, they are on opposite sides.

The masses of people who show up at rallies for Trump—and have propelled him to Republican frontrunner status—are thought to be uneducated, coarse, and intolerant of immigrants [zero out of three in my case]. College students, on the other hand, are so tolerant their tolerance is borderline oppressive. Trump’s backers despise the political correctness of liberal elites: students think liberal elites are closet reactionaries who disdain leftist goals and refuse to nominate black actors and actresses for Oscars. The two groups might possess a shared distrust of social progress—Trump people, because it’s happening too quickly, and student protesters, because it’s not happening quickly enough—but they are on opposite ends of that fight, and virtually all others.

Not every college student is a SJW, and libertarians and conservatives least of all. Trump does have policies that make sense, although if you start from the standard presuppositions of our present much deformed age, you will have no idea what they are or how much sense they make. But it is very nice to see that even on an American university campus, Donald Trump’s message is able to get through at least to some.

Via Instapundit who, by the way, chose the following quote to highlight the article:

“For these students, Trump is not the leader of a political movement, but rather, a countercultural icon. To chant his name is to strike a blow against the ruling class on campus—the czars of political correctness—who are every bit as imperious and loathsome to them as the D.C.-GOP establishment is to the working class folks who see Trump as their champion.”

We working class folk have got to go somewhere, and to Trump we are now going, along with the occasional anti-PC student, and then some others like Rudy Giuliani and Art Laffer.