The Authoritarian Moment: How the Left Weaponized America's Institutions Ag ainst Dissent

US: HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS, 2021. Hardback. Very Good/Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. How far are Americans willing to go to force each other to fall in line? According to the establishment media, the intelligentsia, and our political chattering class, the greatest threat to American freedom lies in right-wi ng authoritarianism. We've heard that some 75 million Americans who voted f or Donald Trump represent the rise of American fascism; that conservatives have allowed authoritarianism to bloom in their midst, creating a grave dan ger for the republic. But what if the true authoritarian threat to America doesn't come from the political right, but from the supposedly anti-fascist left? There are certainly totalitarians on the political right. But statistically , they represent a fringe movement with little institutional clout. The aut horitarian left, meanwhile, is ascendant in nearly every area of American l ife. A small number of leftists-college-educated, coastal, and uncompromisi ng-have not just taken over the Democratic Party but our corporations, our universities, our scientific establishment, our cultural institutions. And they have used their newfound power to silence their opposition. The authoritarian Left is aggressively insistent that everyone must conform to its values, demanding submission and conformity. The dogmatic Left is o bsessed with putting people in categories and changing human nature. Everyo ne who opposes it must be destroyed. Ben Shapiro looks at everything from pop culture to the Frankfurt school, social media to the Founding Fathers, to e.