Illiberalism in Our Institutions treat due process and open inquiry as values that can be sacrificed

In attempting to please their narrow client bases, they treat due process and open inquiry as values that can be sacrificed.

We have come to expect a set of deeply illiberal behaviors from traditional liberal media and universities: firing staff for wrongthink, caving into indignant mobs, and blithely mocking the values and interests of large swathes of the United States. 

The increasingly common interpretation of these behaviors is that these once mainstream institutions are destroying themselves out of a mixture of weakness and stupidity.