Expect more and more silence as growing numbers of cultural liberals realize that a politics based on manners won’t save them. Ask any of them if the use of force to achieve their political ends could be justifiable and they’ll say no. But the rage they feel they tells a different story: they don’t believe what they say, they’re just afraid to say it in public. With good reason. But the right has no such compunction: political, institutional, personal violence are all perfectly acceptable means or even desirable ends in their own right. As liberals slowly conclude that the use of force will be necessary for what they want, that’s when we’ll see a rebirth of the left — not before.