Washington Elite’s Stalinist Halloween | The American Conservative
Here s the thing: it is fast becoming too risky to socialize with people you don t know and trust. How can you be sure that a joke you tell, or an opinion you offer at a party, something that is said within the hearing of a SJW monster like Lexie Gruber, won t be used against you on social media to destroy your reputation, get you fired, make you unemployable, and so forth? You can t be. You think a heartfelt personal apology will save you from ruin? Not with toxic SJWs like Gruber and Prince on the prowl. People are going to have to withdraw from spending time socially with those who cannot be trusted. And the circles of trust are going to grow smaller as the stakes grow bigger, and paranoia abounds.
This is what it means to live in a soft totalitarian society. The government has nothing to do with it. The secret police didn t come for Sue Schafer and her circle. Two merciless woke young women, and the Washington Post, did. We are doing it to ourselves. Correction: we are not doing it to ourselves; liberals and progressives are, aided and abetted by the disgraceful media. I have always thought Donald Trump was outrageous, even dangerously authoritarian, to call the media the enemy of the people. Now? Not so much.