in times of crisis, when a nation's people are frightened, there are often calls for totalitarianism
Recent Examples on the WebThe regimes in Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union had enough similarities to allow scholars to create a new category that included them: totalitarianism. Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2021 This is one way in which Putin’s neo-totalitarianism is distinguished from that of his 20th-century predecessors: Everything is in plain view. Marci Shore, The Atlantic, 11 Mar. 2022 In China, that cannot happen because all those platforms are banned and there is no voter voice, even as the CCP relies on facial recognition, data capture, monitoring of digital bank activity, and other forms of techno-totalitarianism. Therese Shaheen, National Review, 5 Apr. 2021 Cancel culture is a form of soft totalitarianism: the persecution of one’s political opponents in the place of debate and the complete condemnation of those who make mistakes. Madeleine Kearns, National Review, 24 Apr. 2022 Hannah Arendt called widespread loneliness an underlying condition for totalitarianism.New York Times, 20 Apr. 2022 For Belarusians, the shift from gray to black, from autocracy to totalitarianism, was calculable in lives.New York Times, 30 Mar. 2022 National Review was conceived in no small part to present — indeed to insist upon — a more resolute opposition to totalitarianism. Peter J. Travers, National Review, 29 Mar. 2022 The story ends in 1945 thanks only to the focus on Europe and the democracy-versus-totalitarianism framing, which crops empire out of the picture. Daniel Immerwahr, The Atlantic, 4 Apr. 2022 See More