“One of Lasch’s central arguments [in his 1994 book Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy]was that managerial elites had abandoned public debate and their basic obligations to the majority … [producing] a highly insular intelligentsia increasingly disconnected from reality and aligned with corporate interests.”
“ … it is the class of college-educated Democrats that now openly argues for the value of blind submission to authority and the elimination of personal freedoms.”
“While scapegoating Trump supporters, a nexus of billionaires, woke corporations, public intellectuals, and Democratic officials have sparked the very descent into authoritarianism they claimed would emerge from the populist right.”
“The cult of victimhood conjures the specter of fascism, misogyny, or white nationalism in order to justify blatantly repressive measures…Under the guise of combatting anti-vax extremism, woke liberal politicians embraced segregation and the exact kind of ‘systemic racism’ they claimed to oppose.”
“Thus are woke professionals of all ages advancing evermore extreme positions … [a]s these positions become more extreme, the people who hold them become more absolutist, cruel, and deeply undemocratic. In other words, they become everything we were once taught to fear from Trumpism.”
Elitist Authoritarianism
Elitist Authoritarianism
Elitist Authoritarianism
Another great piece by Alex Gutentag in Tablet Magazine, “The New Authoritarians”:
“One of Lasch’s central arguments [in his 1994 book Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy]was that managerial elites had abandoned public debate and their basic obligations to the majority … [producing] a highly insular intelligentsia increasingly disconnected from reality and aligned with corporate interests.”
“ … it is the class of college-educated Democrats that now openly argues for the value of blind submission to authority and the elimination of personal freedoms.”
“While scapegoating Trump supporters, a nexus of billionaires, woke corporations, public intellectuals, and Democratic officials have sparked the very descent into authoritarianism they claimed would emerge from the populist right.”
“The cult of victimhood conjures the specter of fascism, misogyny, or white nationalism in order to justify blatantly repressive measures…Under the guise of combatting anti-vax extremism, woke liberal politicians embraced segregation and the exact kind of ‘systemic racism’ they claimed to oppose.”
“Thus are woke professionals of all ages advancing evermore extreme positions … [a]s these positions become more extreme, the people who hold them become more absolutist, cruel, and deeply undemocratic. In other words, they become everything we were once taught to fear from Trumpism.”
Full article: here