I don't think there is possibly a better description of the case than this. Damn that hits. It does cause me to question, however, where does the threshold exist beyond which we judge the strategy of appeasement to have unequivocally failed? I look at the situation of today's political Left, and not as a monolith but in terms of the individuals I know personally, and I find that they demonstrate something like Stockholm syndrome. In the face of the failure of their appeasing language and attitudes to solve their problem, rather than to abandon these, they instead double-down. They escalate their commitment to guilt and sycophantic self-rebuke as needed motion along some kind of purity spiral. It feeds itself. If the movement in this sprial increases in its severity, then it is confirmed that this is what is needed, and in this way, their mental kidnappers can always show, by way of the fact that their punishment *could be worse*, that it *ought to be* - one can always be purer.