The Left doesn’t care whether you can defend your ideas. They don’t care about intellectual discourse. They don’t care about whether you have facts, studies, or research to back up your arguments. All they care about is whether you agree with them or not. Those on the Left are unable to separate the person from the ideas. If you disagree with their views, it is not merely your ideas that are wrong; it is you. Your ideas aren’t the only thing that’s bad, you are bad as well.