Did yet another person say "totalitarianism"?
The right and its progressive enemies may have more in common than you think.
The Cold War popularized the term “totalitarianism” in the academy, which essentially served as a catch-all word that equivocates Nazism and communism. It is deployed by the left today, but is also a favourite of the right, and essentially serves to portray big government as something necessarily fascist. This is amusing to me, because I think the popularization of the term was a fundamentally leftist-intellectual phenomenon that would later evolve into something else conservatives despise: “wokeness.”