"Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez ... is a self-proclaimed socialist who apparently is ready to move straight into the Stalinist phase of her political career, promising to organize purges against Democrats who don't do as she says. She's even calling herself a 'boss' these days. No doubt she's already looking for her Trotsky. ...

"That a liberal political culture cannot survive enforced homogeneity is obvious enough. The assault on free speech already is well under way, and the Democrats are poised to impose sweeping restrictions on political communication and organizing as soon as they have the votes.

"'The personal is the political,' they used to say. The slogan is intellectually flaccid but no less authoritarian and totalitarian for that. Progressives, once the partisans of 'diversity,' 'tolerance,' and social liberalism, have become the partisans of absolutism, conformism, and moral hysteria. Part of that is cynical politics: It was predictable that the same people who championed toleration when they were a relatively powerless minority would discover the attractions of homogeneity as soon as they got a taste of political power. But there is more to this than cheap opportunism: The emerging left-wing fanaticism gives every appearance of being mostly genuine. Genuinely asinine, genuinely dangerous, but genuine.

"Poor dopey gawping old Joe Biden apparently thinks he's going to get out in front of that parade, and that the red banners will be furled on his say-so. He is in for a shock. So are the rest of us. 'Voting in lockstep' isn't going to be enough for these new totalitarians. What they have in mind is living in lockstep."

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