Yes. Both sides of the political spectrum police language, and neither DeBoer or Chait seem to recognize this. Chait also says some things that seem to indica

Yes. Both sides of the political spectrum police language, and neither DeBoer or Chait seem to recognize this. Chait also says some things that seem to indicate that he wants to police language as well, just in a different way. At one of the political blogs I read that have discussed Chait's piece, the commenters made the astute observation that Chait and now DeBoer are complaining about the wrong thing. The problem isn't "political correctness", it's tribalism.