The Authoritarian Moment- How the Left Weaponized Americas Institutions Against Dissent by Ben Shapiro
The Authoritarian Moment- How the Left Weaponized America's Institutions Against Dissent by Ben Shapiro\nEric Metaxas talks to Ben Shapiro on his book The Authoritarian Moment\u2026\nHow far are Americans willing to go to force each other to fall in line?\nAccording to the establishment media, the intelligentsia, and our political chattering class, the greatest threat to American freedom lies in right-wing authoritarianism. We\u2019ve heard that some 75 million Americans who voted for Donald Trump represent the rise of American fascism; that conservatives have allowed authoritarianism to bloom in their midst, creating a grave danger for the republic.\nBut what if the true authoritarian threat to America doesn\u2019t come from the political right, but from the supposedly anti-fascist left?\nThere are certainly totalitarians on the political Right. But statistically, they represent a fringe movement with little institutional clout. The authoritarian left, meanwhile, is ascendant in nearly every area of American life. A small number of leftists\u2014college-educated, coastal, and uncompromising\u2014have 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.\nThe authoritarian Left is aggressively insistent that everyone must conform to its values, demanding submission and conformity. The dogmatic Left is obsessed with putting people in categories and changing human nature. Everyone who opposes it must be destroyed.\nBen Shapiro looks at everything from pop culture to the Frankfurt school, social media to the Founding Fathers, to explain the origins of our turn to tyranny, and why so many seem blind to it.\nMore than a catalog of bad actors and intemperate acts,\xa0The Authoritarian Moment\xa0lays bare the intolerance and rigidity creeping into all American ideology \u2013 and prescribes the solution to ending the authoritarianism that threatens our future.\nYou can purchase the book at your favorite bookseller or at- https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08KY6VZ1K/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1 \n\xa0\nhttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ben-shapiro-the-authoritarian-moment/id76464369?i=1000531351962 \n\xa0\nThe Eric Metaxas Show\n\xa0\nThe Eric Metaxas Show- https://metaxastalk.com/podcasts/