The Wall Street Journal’s Daniel Henninger has a must-read piece about the view of society held by many of today’s liberals and their intolerance for those with different views. Henninger discusses this in the context of two major stories of the day: gun control and the murder trial of abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell, where horrific details about the killing of babies born alive has been largely ignored by major media and many liberals.

Mr. Obama’s remark about rural Pennsylvanians clinging to guns and religion is the coin of the realm in his crowd. But let’s put their shared consensus another way: Somehow it became a conventional view in contemporary American politics that it is non-urban conservatives who in every case have to accommodate their beliefs to a national culture created by people who live somewhere else. “They” must adjust on abortion, guns, school prayer, sexual mores and all the rest of it. Liberals, meanwhile, not only feel no need to concede anything but use the commanding heights of the press and academia to define anyone who dissents from their ever-evolving national culture as a political fringe obsessed with people, one might say, who aren’t like them.

It is exasperating to watch people who claim the mantle of tolerance demonstrate that they are actually the most intolerant among us.