George Packer
speaker
697 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2025
last heard 6 May
George Packer’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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kind of trampling on individual rights, free speech, due process, equal rights, and you could say objective empirical truth that I think of as sort of the basis of liberal democracy.
It's anti-liberal democracy because what it wants is to take a country that really is a multicultural country from all over the world and turn it into something that
That in their fantasy, it should be and used to be.
And that's such a huge warping of what kind of country we are.
If you just look around, if you go to the store, if you watch a movie, that it has to be done correctly.
has to be done by taking away, as I saw in the paper today, the citizenship of people who you think were somehow naturalized in the wrong way.
That seems to appeal, especially to younger people.
That's the worry.
Just as the illiberalism of the left that I...
fought against for years seem to be coming from the young, from like the younger staff of magazines and universities and nonprofits.
The much more extreme illiberalism of the right is coming from the followers of Bronze Age pervert and raw egg nationalist and Tucker Carlson and Nick Fuentes.
And
It seems to offer something more exciting than just good old-fashioned MAGA offered.
Trump didn't ask anything of people.
He didn't say, you know...
give me your support and together we will build this and destroy that and go to war with this and take over that and become a great world empire, which is essentially what the totalitarians of the 20th century did.
No, it is entertainment.
It is more...
Aldous Huxley than George Orwell, I would say.
It's more Brave New World.
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