The Authoritarian Moment: How the Left Weaponized America's Institutions Against Dissent

Written by:
Ben Shapiro
Narrated by:
Ben Shapiro

Unabridged Audiobook

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Book
69
Narrator
13
Release Date
July 2021
Duration
6 hours 11 minutes
Summary
New York Times Bestseller

How far are Americans willing to go to force each other to fall in line?

According to the establishment media, the intelligentsia, and our political chattering class, the greatest threat to American freedom lies in right-wing authoritarianism. We’ve heard that some 75 million Americans who voted for Donald Trump represent the rise of American fascism; that conservatives have allowed authoritarianism to bloom in their midst, creating a grave danger for the republic.

But what if the true authoritarian threat to America doesn’t come from the political right, but from the supposedly anti-fascist left?

There are certainly totalitarians on the political right. But statistically, they represent a fringe movement with little institutional clout. The authoritarian left, meanwhile, is ascendant in nearly every area of American life. A small number of leftists—college-educated, coastal, and uncompromising—have not just taken over the Democratic Party but our corporations, our universities, our scientific establishment, our cultural institutions. And they have used their newfound power to silence their opposition.

The authoritarian Left is aggressively insistent that everyone must conform to its values, demanding submission and conformity. The dogmatic Left is obsessed with putting people in categories and changing human nature. Everyone who opposes it must be destroyed.

Ben Shapiro looks at everything from pop culture to the Frankfurt school, social media to the Founding Fathers, to explain the origins of our turn to tyranny, and why so many seem blind to it.

More than a catalog of bad actors and intemperate acts, The Authoritarian Moment lays bare the intolerance and rigidity creeping into all American ideology – and prescribes the solution to ending the authoritarianism that threatens our future.
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Anonymous

As a left-leaning person, I was skeptical about listening to a conservative author. I don't agree with all of his views, but this book was amazing! He clearly presents his knowledge and flaws of the present Republican party

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Anonymous

excellent book. I never thought I would be saying that 2 years from 2019, but it is excellent literature. I seriously can't believe I'm saying this.. but this used to be common sense to us, everyone. but now it is authoritarianism everywhere. this is not the America I grew up in during the early 1990s.

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Justin K.

Excellent listen.

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