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The revolution, which seeks to connect ideology to bureaucratic power and to manipulate behavior through the guise of expertise, is ultimately not democratic.

— Christopher Rufo America's Cultural Revolution: How the Radical Left Conquered Everything (2023)

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The popular slogan that "facts don’t care about your feelings" betrays similar problems. In reality, feelings almost always overpower facts. Reason is the slave of the passions.

Academics want to be free to push their ideology at all times, but they also want to be free of democratic oversight. I hope to reverse that. I hope that the opposite becomes true over time.

The critical race theorists and their allies have turned resentment into a governing principle. But this also a trap: resentment is a tool for obtaining power, not of wielding it successfully.

America's Cultural Revolution: How the Radical Left Conquered Everything (2023)

As Cuauhtin tells it, white Christians committed 'theocide' against indigenous spirituality. Those deities must be resurrected and restored to their rightful place in the social justice cosmology. It is, in a philosophical sense, a revenge of the gods.

America's Cultural Revolution: How the Radical Left Conquered Everything (2023)

He understands intuitively that appeals to a new system of governance based on 'diversity, equity, and inclusion' are a pretense for establishing a political order that is hostile to his values, even if he does not yet possess the vocabulary to pierce through the shell of euphemism and describe its essence.

America's Cultural Revolution: How the Radical Left Conquered Everything (2023)

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The great revolution in the history of man, past, present and future, is the revolution of those determined to be free.

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