Via @sullydish. A case could be made that the existential factional conflict that undermines the "liberal order" has in fact accelerated since 2020. andrewsullivan.substack.com/p/the-american… 
It's not surprising that hyper-polarization should cloak itself in the language of righteous enmity ("Enemy of the people!....Enemy of democracy!"). But it is nevertheless corrosive.
One of the things that Sullivan's piece captures is the increasingly "Animal Farm" nature of elite American political discourse. Post-reality politics is inevitably fiercely tribalistic politics.
At the heart of the early Soviet messaging paradigm was the assumption that the sense of perpetual existential crisis (of enemies within) could justify any distortion of language or history and any suppression of a domestic opponent. Not a good road to go down...
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