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What Is the Next Step in the Evolution of Left-Wing Authoritarianism?
Nicholas Waddy | Posted: Dec 19, 2021 12:01 AM
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Conservatives have watched, with varying degrees of horror, as leftists have, in recent years, embraced radical ideas and schemes such as: court-packing, abolishing the filibuster, lockdowns/mandates, censorship on an industrial scale, cancel culture, critical race theory, abolishing the police, open borders, runaway spending, the stigmatization of dissent as “insurrection”, “white supremacy”, “fascism”, and more. Left-wingers have talked openly, and sometimes gleefully, about how richly we, their conservative enemies, deserve slow and painful deaths – and, when in a feisty mood, how they would quite like to be the agents of our demise.
Much of the time, we on the right are inclined to scoff at such wild-eyed pronouncements, but should we dismiss them so lightly? Consider the apocalyptic, hectoring tone of so much political analysis on the Left these days. This is a small sample of some of the recent articles that left-wingers are gobbling up:
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