I think the left has a serious problem with "reality" - they want to define it, which is "generally" an okay thing, but they take it to such extremes that it becomes "la la land."
It's like... transgenders want to "define" what sex they are, on it's surface that's fine, righties can, in general, deal with folks believing what they want to believe about themselves. However, that's not good enough for lefties, they not only want to "defy" reality, but they expect everyone else to do it as well under the threat of law. Lefties want to punish/fine people [righties] for "calling it like they see it" - for calling out /reality/. What was it the left said? "You can put lipstick on a pig..." Yet they cannot even see it.
Another example is the market's excitement about President Trump winning the election. The /day/ he was elected everything took off; I've made 2M since President Trump was elected, 2 fucking M, I've never seen this kind of explosion in my "low risk" stocks before. Not even back in the 90s when I risked a [then healthy] $10k on computer stocks and the internet took off. The kind of excitement we're seeing in the market, the enthusiasm, the "love" is unprecedented - I suspect because, like me, my ilk had thought that too many were swayed by the fluffy sounding ideals and lies of socialism and communism for there ever to be another capitalist president. Yet the left, looks at the reality and says it was Obama's economy, all of this is "because of Obama" or "democrats" fiscal policy. It's such bullshit, it's defying reality and expecting everyone else to go along with the "lie"
"Merry Christmas" a well wish around the holidays, the left defies that reality and inserts their own "it's insulting to other religions" and gets it banned all over the damn place as "religious dogma" -- They define reality and force everyone to goose step with their bullshit. Righties even let that one go, in an effort to compromise, to be "respectful" of other opinions, but it's never enough for the left - they always need a cause to "fight" over so they make shit up.
"The confederate flag is nazi! Fuck that tradition of 'Southern Heritage' followed by people across the fucking globe, we say it's racist." Define reality, attack, and ban, because /everyone/ must live in the fantasy that the left creates in their heads.
"Milo is a nazi" ... "He's Jewish..." "He's a nazi and you're a racist white supremacist for supporting him!" Define reality, attack, and ban, because /everyone/ must live in the fantasy that the left creates.
"Trump is a white supremacist." "He fought to have African American's allowed into his resort, now the southern white house..." "He's a white supremacist and you are too if you support him. Punch a nazi!" Define reality, attack, and attempt to impeach, because /everyone/ will be /forced/ into compliance with the left's reality, made up in their heads, and if you don't, you "deserve" to be beaten, you "deserve" to die; your life, your health, your safety, are forfeit to the lefties invented reality.
There are so many examples of this mentality, yet the left can't even see it. There is no compromise in their world, because to them, /everything/, and I do mean everything (from banana peels to shoelaces,) is a matter of "life and death" that needs "violent" enforcement; and when the police won't enforce their ridiculous "reality", they call in fucking terrorists to come in and beat everyone else into submission.
And on the right, in the middle, we see /that/ as completely and wholly unacceptable. We reject it with every fiber of our being really, because not only are we clinging onto the idea of "America" (freedom, liberty, and justice even), but we're also clinging to 'reality'... Be it the 'reality' that ISIS is sending terrorists through refugee and immigration systems, be it the 'reality' that even real Nazi's have a right to speak in this nation, be it that perverts will take advantage of 'transgender' bathrooms, be it that our southern border is a disaster letting in millions and millions of "freeloaders" that take money off our tables... We see 'reality' and the left thinks that they can change that just by throwing a tantrum, that they have the 'right' - fuck they think it's an "obligation" - to force everyone else to see things their way.
When you get that kind of mindset, authoritarian, narcissistic, and offended, there is zero compromise...