When I read this Globe story on a conservative group targeting Smith College over admitting transgender women and not transgender men (yes, they really went there), my mind drifted to the sadly humorous opening lines of Jonathan Chait’s recent piece in the Atlantic about Democrats getting so tangled up in their identity-politics language and policies. … Conservatives have become so obsessed with the left that they’re now getting tangled up in their own reverse identity-politics language and policies. …  And our culture wars keep getting stranger and stranger.