Recent events have underlined how little success the U.S. and global establishment has in its efforts to mold public opinion and vilify its critics. The left-leaning powers-that-be exercise unprecedented control over the sprawling edifice of the mainstream media, whose professional ethics are, each day, degraded just a little more in service of the overriding mission of trashing conservative and populist causes and leaders. What's more, the Left has come to dominate social media. It shamelessly uses search algorithms, demonetizing, and other tricks to ensure that only approved narratives are propagated and dissident voices are stifled. When digital sleight-of-hand doesn't suffice, blunt censorship abetted and even administered by government agencies is used to silence critics of the status quo more permanently – and no apologies are given for the consequences to free speech and pluralism.

You would think, given the sophistication and thoroughness of these efforts to amplify establishment narratives and to castigate alternative viewpoints as “far-right”, “racist”, “anti-democratic”, and “extreme”, that the public would long since have been bullied and cajoled into acquiescence to the agenda of the........

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