The time has come to address the accusation from some of America’s biggest appeasers of woke authoritarianism that we on the right are the “authoritarians” our fellow citizens should fear.
The leaders of this smear campaign are people like David French, Charlie Sykes, Bill Kristol, and other self-appointed thought police of conservatism. For them, it is one step from fascism for Americans to direct governance toward the common good, i.e., toward breaking the grip of corporate oligarchs waging culture war against our country and our ways of life. Merely raising taxes on global corporations colluding to punish state legislatures is cause for pious panic from French—who insists absurdly that the oligarchs are engaging only in free speech, so lifting a political finger to challenge their play for mastery of our regime is “right-wing authoritarianism, plain and simple.”
Baffling—although not really—that French and company studiously avoid giving even the slightest offense to the woke left-wing authoritarians who daily tighten their grip on our regime, the better to replace it with one made firmly in their own image. It’s terribly convenient that these white knights pantomime the defense of free speech as they libel voices that speak out against the actual authoritarian takeover of America, happening at breakneck speed in plain sight.
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