Exposing the 2020 fed-ordered, academic-run, corporate-censorship extortion racket

This, at the NYP, is exactly right.

Over the last 10-ish years:

(a) The American left has radicalized.

(b) It has adopted a particularly virulent mix of outlandish, highly-theoretical, quasi-philosophical ideas that infected the humanities and the academic left 40 years ago or so.

(c) It has implemented these ideas as actual policies (or: in-effect policies) from academia to publishing to the news media and social media to government.

(d) It has slipped farther and farther into a kind of soft totalitarianism that (i) brooks no dissent, (ii) actively seeks to crush dissent via non-rational means (eg social punishment, the disinformation-industrial complex), (iii) seeks to use corporations, schools, and universities to indoctrinate people--especially children and young people--into the doctrines of the cult.

   People like me laughed at Trump's phrase "the deep state" when we first encountered it. Well, I, at least, am no longer laughing. There is certainly a deep academy that will resist any attempt to restore institutional neutrality. As with other of Trump's allegedly laughable or terrible phrases--'fake news,' 'build the wall'--'the deep state' turned out to indicate something real and important.