2021: The Year of the Ruling Class' Crackdown on Dissent

While it scapegoats, smears and suppresses non-progressive Normies who refuse to submit to its reign, it can't distract the public from the fact its agenda is killing the country

2021: The Year of the Ruling Class' Crackdown on Dissent

The year 2020 was the year of the lockdown, when the Ruling Class arbitrarily, capriciously and selectively suspended the natural rights bedrock upon which American life—indeed, life itself—relies.

The year 2021 closes as the year of the crackdown, when the Ruling Class weaponized its powers to crush dissenters from its Wokeist-Scientist orthodoxy in arguably the most far-reaching, brazen and lawless assault on Americans by the state and its private-sector adjuncts in our nation's history.

This was the year that the campus became the country. Those engaging in speech that ran afoul of the Ruling Class' party line were treated as physical dangers to the homeland, demanding the full force of the public and private sectors to deter, punish and subdue them.

A national strategy for countering "domestic terrorism," associated homeland security threat bulletins and official DOJ/FBI policy directives made crushing dissent an official state objective.

Every free-thinking individual became a potential Donald Trump, liable to be ostracized, harassed and punished for daring to cross the regime in a society-wide Russiagate.

I write about this pivotal story of 2021—the un-American effort to punish Wrongthinkers, particularly on election integrity, the Chinese coronavirus, and Critical Race Theory—in a new piece at Newsweek. As I conclude:

Every action from the regime is clearly about raising the cost of dissent to such great heights that it will fall away—liberty and justice, stumbling blocks to total rule, be damned.

The reality is that the only threat dissenting Americans pose is to the Ruling Class' unmitigated power. Its intimidation and coercion is proportional to its failure to maintain power because of the failure of its agenda. The more it touches, the more it destroys. And it loathes to be called out for it.

The fundamental problem the Ruling Class faces, going forward, is that while it scapegoats, smears and suppresses the non-progressive patriots who refuse to submit to its reign, it can't distract the public from the fact its agenda is killing the country.

The Ruling Class can endure its children being shut out of school, spiraling inflation, supply chain breakdown, surging crime, suspended sovereignty and all manner of tyrannical policies that serve to widen the gulf between the Ruling Class and America. But America itself cannot.

In the final days of 2021, the Ruling Class limped to the finish line, personified by its confused, irritable and frail figurehead—the president of the United States.

It is stuck between its lust for power and its imperative to strangle its political opposition on the one hand, and its desire to survive—with the American people rejecting its reign at the ballot box in 2021, and threatening an even greater rejection in 2022—on the other hand.

Let us resolve in this new year to make the Ruling Class' worst fear a reality—to punish it for the suffering it has inflicted on our republic.

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