Isn't Obama the only President to be at war every day of his eight year rule?  How many of our soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan under his reign?

The liberal columnist for USA Today doesn't have a problem with all liberals, just the subset she defines as the "illiberal left." As political discourse has become more coarse, she sees growing danger.
In her recent book, The Silencing, she argues some on her side want no part of fair debate and are taking an axe to free speech.

The "illiberal left," she writes, "act in direct contradiction to the fundamental liberal values of free speech, debate and dissent" and "adopt tactics they claim to discern and detest in conservatives."

The illiberal left is a loud group that mastered social media, helps steer academia and runs what I call "alt-left" websites. Those are fountainheads of victimization where you can drown in slippery, socially-engineered terms such as mansplaining, trigger warnings, microaggressions, (fill in the blank) privilege, cisgender, rape culture, and more phobias than are locked in Freud's little closet of horrors.

I have no problem with people owning semi-auto long guns but I wouldn't think they'd be well suited for home defense.  You'd have too much of a chance of killing family members in other rooms as the bullets go through walls.

So perfesser, when someone submits data that was gathered using questionable methods or obvious dubious methods, that is not to be questioned?

Sounds like more of the "How dare you question my results!" that the left constantly deploys when questioned.

Nobody goes into academic research motivated by a desire to get Federal funding. Like, yeah, first thing I think of when I ask "How to get rich?" - oh yeah, go into meteorology! Doesn't everyone!?

Do you have any idea how hard it is to write successful grant proposals that pry loose any of those dollars?

The scientists may have political or personal aggrandizement motivations, but financial? Hardly.