Alting von Geusau on Hannah Arendt’s The Origins of Totalitarianism,1948.

….Not since the end of the Second World War have so many renowned and acclaimed academics, scientists and medical doctors, including Nobel Prize recipients and nominees, been silenced, deplatformed and fired from their positions only because they do not support the official or ‘correct’ line. They simply desire for a robust public discourse on the question of how best to deal with the issue at hand and thus engage in a common search for truth. This is the point where we know from history that the ideology of the day has now been formally enshrined and has become mainstream. ….

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On this topic the sharpest analyst in the 21st century might have been Sheldon B. Wolin, Democracy Incorporated: Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism – New Edition, 2017