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“This comment is in reference to the interview with Rod Dreher in which he addresses the question of totalitarianism in America. Dreher spends almost all his time critiquing liberals’ penchant for engaging in cancel culture. From time to time he pays lip service to the same tendency on the right; however, the only example he can trot out (and that’s a pretty accurate assessment of what he does) is the conservative opposition to masks and vaccines and, in a pretty bizarre twist, the Republican effort to “silence” Donald Trump.
Given the direction of the current SCOTUS; the radical right’s takeover of the evangelical churches; the political railroading of anti-voting laws, anti- mask mandates, book banning, revisionist history, and so on in conservative states; the fragility of the white right, etc., it’s really quite remarkable that Dreher cannot be more even-handed.
Then, in his most egregious claim, Dreher chides the liberals for the violent reaction of white nationalists that might ensue from the advancement of such boogymen as Critical Race Theory. I wonder if he even knows that that is.
The inability of Dreher and others to see that things like cancel culture and an activist judiciary are simply culturally pervasive, and not the province of any party or ideology, is why we should fear totalitarianism from all sides. For those of us in the “radical middle,” it matters not whether we are going to be subject to utopian liberalism or a right-wing theocratic regime; neither is desirable, nor is either inherently less toxic.
In the end, I am not clear if Dreher is, in fact, a conservative tribalist, ignorant of the full scope of our danger - whether willfully or not - or is simply not that intelligent.”
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United States of America ·
01/31/22
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