Their K of liberalism is performative- collapses into authoritarianism

(Daniel, Political thought AND Psychology, Psych@Duquesne, Critical Theory and Psychoanalysis: From the Frankfurt School to Contemporary Critique ed. Mills and Burston)

Evidently, then, Dr. Khilanani regards liberal sentiments as inauthentic or superficial and deeply divorced from the repressed rage that all white folks presumably feel because their privilege is being threatened by communities of color. Liberals, by this account, espouse good intentions at the conscious level but lack the inner honesty – and by implication, the courage and self-awareness – to admit to themselves that they are riddled with fear and resentment. So we may ask ourselves, would people like these make good psychoanalysts? Not bloody likely. And yet the vast majority of psychoanalytically oriented clinicians currently in practice are white and would probably identify as ​“​liberal​”​ or left of center if asked. So one wonders, if this view of racial and political polarities prevails in the analytic profession, will it dictate that white psychoanalysts and psychotherapists must be screened for suitability (in light of some as yet unspecified criteria) before being permitted to treat or train non-white people in future? (More on this point later.) In any case, the essentialist binary that Dr. Khilanani constructs and the fact that she would feel more comfortable in Anne Coulter’s company than in the presence of ​“​a lot of liberals​”​ hints at a chilling subtext. Perhaps her preference is not merely because Coulter is (allegedly) more honest, authentic, or ​“​healthy​”​ than her liberal counterparts but because Coulter’s politics are profoundly illiberal (or anti-liberal), and on some level, Dr. Khilanani shares Coulter’s contempt for liberal values, an attitude increasingly prevalent among critical race theorists (Pyle, 1999), the American Left (Applebaum, 2021), and in university settings generally (Delgado and Stefancic, 2017; Boghossian, 2021). One can only imagine how she feels toward Black liberals, both in and outside the psychoanalytic profession!