The Great Revealing continues

I have referred to the Trump era as the great revealing.  In their fervid panic to get rid of him, the mainstream media and the left of the Democratic Party became more and more obvious about what they were seeking to do and how far they were willing to depart from the Constitution and our traditions of freedom, due process, universal human rights, etc.  

I had assumed that the obviousness of their drift would be arrested once they gained control.  Instead, it appears that they seem to feel free to reveal ever more now that he is gone.

Brought to mind by a couple of items in the news this morning.

Liberals want only liberal outlets to exist and only liberal commentators to be heard from, and everything else to be classified as criminal or otherwise banned, and the more honest ones are admitting this with greater and greater candor: https://t.co/jnVaZJFIdY

— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) January 22, 2021

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It is hard not to see Mussolini's formulation of totalitarianism, "Everything in the State, nothing outside the State, nothing against the State," in this Democratic Party position.  They do not want opposition and they are perfectly fine voiding the First Amendment to get there.

Reinforced by this MSNBC interview.

Speaking of greater and greater candor, here's yet another authoritarian discussion on MSNBC with Joe Scarborough and Ken Dilanian discussing the need -- which Dilanian says many Dems believe -- for a new War on Terror on US soil:

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— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) January 22, 2021

The alarm bells ring even louder when one of the Democratic Party primary candidates (and former vice chair of the Democratic National Committee, is equally concerned by this sudden infatuation with totalitarianism.   

.@joebiden Your leadership is needed now to denounce those like John Brennan & Rep Schiff who are advocating for targeting half the country as potential domestic terrorists. Truly unite the American people around our Constitution & the rights that are endowed to us by our Creator pic.twitter.com/OpemBm4biS

— Tulsi Gabbard 🌺 (@TulsiGabbard) January 24, 2021

Tulsi is no Blue Dog Democrat, and if she is concerned, we should all be concerned.  

Yet another example of rising Democratic institutions falling away from commitments to freedom of speech and intellectual diversity.

Brandeis wrote that “Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher.” While that observation concerned wrongdoing by the government, it seems particularly apropos today on our campuses where impeachments and removals are now seemingly the rage... https://t.co/SBAZxrwO9n

— Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) January 25, 2021

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