The Dems’ attempts for 4 years to analogize Trump’s administration to 1984 fell flat. It’s a different story with the Biden administration.
"During Trump’s presidency, Democrats kept likening his style to 1984. They did so either because they hadn’t read 1984 or did not understand it. 1984 is about total government control in a technological world. This allows a massive government to spy on people and control everything they say, do, see, or hear. When people challenge this government totalitarianism, they are “re-educated” or deleted.
"Endless war is a necessity in 1984’s Oceania because it forces people to believe that total government is necessary to protect them from an unseen enemy. And of course, language is not a tool for communication; it’s a means of controlling thought.
"Trump was the antithesis of 1984. He spent four years trying to shrink the government. He made no effort whatsoever to spy on people or to control anything they said, did, saw, or heard. When people challenged him, he fought back on substance and, often, called them silly nicknames. Trump pulled America out of existing wars and did not start any new ones. And of course, while his language was blunt to a fault, Trump was never the speech police, constantly changing what words one must use, and what perfectly good words (at least, as of yesterday) that they abandon if they wish to avoid being de-personed.
"Trump was not Orwellian. He was not even Wilsonian, as in Woodrow Wilson, the first Progressive president, who tried to impose a police state on America during WWI. Trump greatly expanded American liberty and the Democrats hated him for it." . . .
News flash! We are no longer living in a free country
"The opposite of courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow." — Jim Hightower (Leftist commentator)
. . . "Bottom line? American is no longer a free country. Our elections are not free and fair. Our formerly most trusted law enforcement agencies have been proven corrupt. And with this new administration's overt authoritarianism made so evident in just three weeks, we should all make plans to survive what is to come. It will not be pretty, nor will it be constitutional. It will be tyrannous. It is coming."
As Rick Fuentes wrote on these pages last Sunday, "[o]n November 3, we went to bed in America. On November 4, we woke up in Venezuela." Indeed, we did.
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