Michael Barone: Danger of authoritarianism may come from the center, not the Right Not the right or the center. More below. The progressive left and the Democratic Party have changed their militant wing from the KKK back in the day to their current authoritarian militant wing, Antifa. They are the groups working hard to shut down free speech at Universities, to eliminate the free exchange of ideas, the right to freely associate, and they constantly threaten those with differing ideas in public and during elections. It is the progressive left which seeks to regulate others behavior through forced community actions whether that be requiring rooftop solar, recycling, or anything else. There is nothing as invasive or as corrupt on either the right or the center. Even the most malign on the religious right are not demanding that Americans be forced to read the bible daily, but the progressive left is attempting to force the rest of the nation use their preferred pronouns, and comply with the infinite canards of the political correctness lunacy.
The progressive left and the Democrat Parties are authoritarian and have also become a proselytizing mass movement, which is necessarily a secular religion. No mass movements are as dangerous or deadly as secular mass movements like Soviet Socialism or Chinese Communism. It is true we must be vigilant as to authoritarianism from whatever source, but today the vector is the progressive left and the Democrat Party, not the center. The strangest part of this article is that Barone continually calls progressives centrist. They are not; they are progressives and authoritarian, precisely what anyone who has been paying attention to politics for the past 40 years would assume. Merkel is not a Centrist; she is the last East German Manchurian Candidate seeking to destroy Germany, Blair was a progressive who had dreams of an authoritarian EU in his head. These people are not Centrists; they are progressive authoritarians just like the establishment Republicans. Although truth be told, the establishment Republicans are more corruptocrats than they are authentic authoritarians. They loved Obama and his lead from behind policy. They wished only to sit second chair as long as they had access to sufficient graft and corruption.
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