If we listen to the rhetoric of the left, we can only guess that further restrictions of speech and life, both de facto and de jure, are coming. What is the conservative plan to deal with any of this? The “youth”—but not only the youth, and certainly not only the white youth, although they are the most affected—has seen only capitulation from the conservative establishment, or otherwise outright collaboration.
How often have we heard this complaint on FR? The appellation "CTRL-Left" was well given, and totalitarianism has sprouted there like mushrooms after a rain. But there is a "CTRL-Right" as well, our GOPe, our establishment, and they like Trump (among other outliers) just as little as their Stalinist counterparts do. These are Orwell's pigs who walk on two legs, and we'd best not look that direction for liberation.
The author points out that it isn't entirely generational - quite a lot of us old farts got Pepe long before the Kool Kidz on the Left, who never will. It is, however, raging on the Internet, looking strangely familiar underneath because it is about freedom versus control as it has been long before the Bronze Age, when the Internet consisted of clay tablets fired in the ruins of the buildings that burned down around them. The ending was frequently not a happy one but somehow, freedom survives.
It’s fascinating. The original review is the first time I’ve heard of this book.