Superb summary.
Thanks - there’s obviously a great deal more to it than that. My recent research for my book has turned up what looks like the resurgence of one of modernity’s worst evils. I alwys look for the pedigree of ideas, as that tells you more about those advocating them they might want you to know.
It’s a Scylla and Charybdis scenario for those of us on the American Right. We can not afford to be drawn into either of those two maelstroms of totalitarianism if we wish to retain our humanity.