I think this kind of hysteria is pretty common in politics (actually, my incidental use of the word "hysteria" is fitting if anyone remembers that whole controv

I think this kind of hysteria is pretty common in politics (actually, my incidental use of the word "hysteria" is fitting if anyone remembers that whole controversy). I guess the author's argument is that this phenomenon is more pronounced on the left. Perhaps. It reminds me of a time when a friend of mine got fired from his job at a private school in the eastern US for simply patting a female student on the back during class. You might wonder what the nature of this "patting" was, but I don't. He's just not the kind of person who would have done that in a creepy way. He was devastated, of course, having just been labeled in a somewhat official capacity as a sexual predator. It's too bad that this kind of thing happens.