“Screw Your Freedom”
9th November 2021
These words wouldn’t have had the same effect if they were said by anybody else, but coming from Arnold Schwarzenegger, the bodybuilding Terminator-turned-California-Governor, delivered in his trademark German accent, they were absurdly apposite. It can be difficult to discern the outlines of tyranny when it is couched in the language of Constitutional norms and the structures of democratic federalism, and exercised by slick folks who look and talk like Gavin Newsom or Joe Biden. The Bidens and Newsoms are, after all, just issuing well-intended “mandates” backed, after all, by “the science.” Arnold’s visceral expression—all too reminiscent, to me at least, of his Nazi officer father—should be a wake-up call to all of us frogs contentedly boiling in our pots: Get out now, while we still can.
We need a new term to apply to RINOs, people who are too statist to be really Republicans but not crazy enough to be actual Democrats — you know, the John McCains/Mitt Romneys/Arnold Schwarzeneggers of the world. (You could even include various Bushes; I wouldn’t say you nay.)