Another Occasional Arendt Quote: Totalitarians Love Ad Hominems

One of the greatest advantages of the totalitarian elites of the twenties and thirties was to turn any statement of fact into a question of motive.

              ― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism

That, of course, is the main tactic of the progressive left, too: disagree with any of their abstruse, occult, hermetic dogma and you're a racist, racist. The strength of your arguments and the implausibility of their dogma are both irrelevant.