When I was growing up, we used to laugh at a moralising certainty that was the purview of stuffy conservatives on the Right.
But as Matt Taibi wrote in 2020, “We laughed at the Republican busybody who couldn’t joke, declared war on dirty paintings, and peered through your bedroom window. Now that person has switched sides, and nobody’s laughing.”
Taibi’s point was that much of that moralising has migrated to the Left. I see it a lot, and as someone who generally leans left, it’s frustrating to see people shooting themselves in the foot.