If there’s one thing that should be perfectly clear by now, it is that facts are no match for fervor.

From Jon Coifman, on the “they’ll have to rip those incandescent bulbs from my cold dead hands” lightbulb fracas. 

Which, sadly, has been just too richly representative of the current political scene to dismiss as silliness. Large numbers of people are apparently convinced that facts are mutable to the point that they are unpersuasive in argument.

And, frankly, I’m conflicted about how progressives should operate in such an environment.