#1984: Washington pundits warn of dictatorship in the Orwellian style & What is to be done? Peter Berkowitz, Hoover Institution.
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🗓️ 24 January 2024
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#1984: Washington pundits warn of dictatorship in the Orwellian style & What is to be done? Peter Berkowitz, Hoover Institution.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2024/01/21/bulwark_writers_double_down_on_trump_as_democracys_destroyer_150353.html
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| 0:00.0 | Since CBS I am the World, I'm John Bache. |
| 0:05.0 | 1984, it's a wonderful story I recommended to everyone young enough not to have read it however all the |
| 0:14.4 | residents understand that George Orwell was a pseudonym his real name was Eric Blair |
| 0:19.6 | and he was writing in the 1940s and it's nowhere near as clever as Animal Farm but it stays with |
| 0:25.2 | us because it's easy to produce on television or in the movies this concept of |
| 0:29.7 | Big Brother always watching you and having no freedom whatsoever in perpetual war. |
| 0:35.0 | It's very attractive. |
| 0:36.6 | It satisfies everybody's first romantic idea of dictatorship. |
| 0:41.3 | I welcome Peter Berkowitz of the |
| 0:43.3 | Hoover Institution writing recently in real clear politics |
| 0:47.2 | about an article that appears by Ron Radish and Gabrielle Schoenfeld about what will happen when and if the former president becomes |
| 0:58.7 | president again. |
| 1:00.1 | The word is dictatorship and the dictatorship that is entertained reminds me immediately of |
| 1:06.3 | 1984 which is why I started with that example. |
| 1:09.7 | Peter a very good evening to you the quote here that is most revelatory in order to demonstrate |
| 1:15.6 | that we're headed towards a dictatorship |
| 1:18.6 | under the former president, something like a big brother, |
| 1:22.0 | is that you are making the observation that the Pentagon or the |
| 1:29.2 | federal bureaucracy, all of it together, is is progressive yes that is found to be |
| 1:35.8 | controversial that is your your critics in the bulwark doubt you good evening to |
| 1:41.5 | you people good evening to you. Good evening, Sean. Yes, not only do they doubt me, they snidely reproach me for grotesquely |
| 1:52.1 | distorting the reality of the federal bureaucracy. |
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