Totalitarians

The only yoke that exists in Colombia is the one that totalitarians like Petro have imposed on their people,“ Abascal wrote on Twitter.

Abandoning moderation and constitutional constraints, Western totalitarians embraced intimidation, coercion, and surveillance on a wide scale.

For people who take full advantage of the freedoms afforded by a liberal democracy, it’s remarkable how they find common cause with totalitarians and terrorists.

Yet totalitarians never just clear-cut the forest.

I’ve interacted with a number of extremely paranoid corona-totalitarians recently (just as a kind of social experiment).

How playing Let’s Make a Deal with totalitarians in Beijing who at this very moment are imprisoning and torturing Christians adds to the sum total of Catholicism’s moral authority, or the papacy’s, is, to put it gently, unclear.

That lesson was learned well, and the rise of the totalitarians — communists first and fascists soon after — would make the rest of the 20th century subject to even more far-reaching war, both hot and cold.

In his critique of the twentieth century totalitarians, Popper wrote, "I do not wish to imply that conspiracies never happen.