Trump Admin Correctly Calls Bluff of Conservatives Claiming They Ever Read 1984
"It's a 350 page book..."
As President Trump pulls the strings to silence his dissenters in the media, there’s one word conservatives are not using to describe the situation: Orwellian.
Amidst the great cancel culture crusades of 2018, where the woke mob would get you fired from your TV show just for saying something racist1, and throughout the tyrannical reign of President Biden navigating a pandemic, conservatives often used the term "Orwellian" to prove that, not only was the current political landscape dire, but also that they read a book in high school.
The Trump administration has decided to call the conservatives bluff on the latter, and they seem to be correct.
As President Trump puts the hit out on late night talk show hosts who make jokes about him, the reaction from the MAGA faithful is not to call the situation "Orwellian," but instead to "LOL."
The government is, and has been, in full authoritarian mode for some time now, and MAGA conservatives are not inclined to study the history of similar countries who went down this path, but instead are advocating for censoring universities and dissolving public news organizations like NPR, as well as nonprofit organizations like PBS, which provides educational programs to public TV stations.
While conservatives ride the LOL wave and tell liberals to "cry more," they’re proving President Trump’s administration correct: they never read the book.
Or as President Trump might put it: