Robby Soave's Panic Attack is an account of how the Left, in its pursuit of power—as with the Brett Kavanaugh hearings and the Russia hoax—has lost touch with reality. Soave focuses on intersectionality, the cleverly constructed idea of dual oppressions, now a pathway to power for purported victims on college campuses. “Intersectionality,” as Soave explains it, “holds that each individual is the expert when it comes to his or her own oppression.” One should never engage alleged victims, moreover, since it's considered wrong to question their imagined subjugation.
In some ways, the current age of victimhood has roots in the excesses of Second Wave feminism of the 1970s. The theme of Flora Rheta Schreiber's bestselling Sybil (published in 1973) was that some American women were so oppressed that they split themselves into multiple personalities, as a defense. Marketed as nonfiction, Sybil became a national sensation, with 6 million copies sold and 40 million Americans watching a two-part television series based on the book. Thirty-eight years later, it was exposed as a hoax.
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