The danger of the tipping point

I’ve been listening to some interviews with Douglas Murray recently. He’s very good.

In this video, there’s an interesting interchange about tipping points.

It’s as if generally conservative people looked at the madness around them — in schools, universities, government, private industry, entertainment, social media, etc. — and thought, “it can’t go on much longer. People will realize how stupid this is and they’ll back off.”

And then they don’t back off, and things get worse, and the conservatives think, “Oh, but this will be the tipping point. People won’t accept that.”

“This one will be the tipping point” is wishful thinking.