Neofascism: Ignorance is Strength! George Orwell may have thought that his “Nineteen Eighty-Four” had some elements of parody, in that the doctrines and slogans of EngSoc had been sharpened to make them even more obviously false and insane. But it appears not:

Sean T. Casten: ‘"What caused the civil war?", "Does burning fossil fuel warm the planet?", "Do guns kill people?", "Should women have equal rights?" and any number of other really simple questions are "gotchas" in a GOP primary. That makes me sad… <threads.net/@seantcaste…>