Roger Kimball, Biden Puts The ‘Total’ In Totalitarianism

Roger Kimball  America has come perilously close to the edge of the point of no return… Joe Biden certainly set the punditocracy abuzz with his neo-totalitarian performance piece at Independence Hall in Philadelphia on Thursday. The significance of that speech can be broken down into three parts, two of which have already received abundant commentary. The first has to do with the theater of the piece, its optics or stagecraft. As many commentators (myself included) noted, the feel of the event was distinctly, and distinctively, bombastic. The melodramatic red lighting, the presence…

Revolver Investigates Disturbing Link Between DHS and The Domestic War On MAGA

REVOLVER In a move that is Orwellian even by the current year’s dystopian standards, Biden’s Department of Homeland Security on Monday issued a heightened terrorist threat assessment centered around “online misinformation:” The United States remains in a heightened threat environment fueled by several factors, including an online environment filled with false or misleading narratives and conspiracy theories, and other forms of mis- dis- and mal-information (MDM) introduced and/or amplified by foreign and domestic threat actors. [DHS] That’s right, folks, the Ministry of Truth is officially here, under the auspices of the government’s Cybersecurity & Infrastructure…

State of the Nation, An Open Letter to the American Electorate

State of the Nation Dear American Voter, Who in the USA is not brutally aware of how consequential the 2020 POTUS election is? Surely, the outcome of this election will determine the fate of the American people as it will the future of the Republic. We are a group of U.S. citizens. We come from every voting demographic—the right, the left, the center and the unaffiliated. Stated another way, some of us are liberals, some are conservatives, others are independents and still others are completely apolitical. However, we all share…