The Authoritarian Mind

You may remember Glenn Reynolds from such incidents of fascism as “protestors should be summarily executed by drivers.” Today, he really ups the ante on Cathy Young’s merely silly anti-anti-Petersonism and gets to the heart of the matter:

The rule is, the rules are whatever the loudest-screaming lefties want them to be at the moment. And they’re subject to change at any moment, or even retroactively, according to the political needs of right now. [cites omitted — ed.]

But if you don’t like Peterson, you may want to hold back anyway. Because if you don’t like him, you really won’t like who’ll tap into that frustration if he’s gone.

Donald Trump’s capture of the Republican nomination and his ability to retain the uncritical loyalty of the Republican base after boasting about serial sexual assault will remain a permanently inexplicable mystery.