Phoebe Maltz Bovy is a contributing columnist for The Globe and Mail.

Bluesky displayed on a cel phone with the app open on a computer monitor on Nov. 14 in Pasadena, Calif.Mario Tama/Getty Images

On the 1980s sitcom Family Ties, a teenage conservative played by Michael J. Fox clashes with his liberal parents. But it was Justine Bateman, the actress who played one of his sisters, who celebrated Donald Trump’s recent victory with this viral post on X: “Decompressing from walking on eggshells for the past four years.”

Anti-wokeness may not have decided the election, and plenty of critics of progressive sanctimony preferred Kamala Harris. (Hi!) But a perception of Democrats as the party of political correctness didn’t help matters. And the circa-2016 liberal belief that Mr. Trump won because voters are bigots was challenged by the strides he made this time around with Black and Latino voters.

This might seem, then, like a moment for figuring out how to decouple progressive sanctimony from progressive politics. Instead, Mr. Trump’s opponents appear to be regrouping on the newly popular social-media platform Bluesky to talk among themselves.

Bluesky is a text-heavy social-media platform similar to what Twitter (now X) was under Jack Dorsey, who helped found both Twitter and Bluesky but is not currently running either. It costs nothing, and it’s ad-free and relatively easy to use. Right now, it’s functioning largely as an alternative to X, owned by the Trump-aligned Elon Musk.

To get a sense of the atmosphere on Bluesky, peruse the endless stream of posts from users – including from major........

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