Just transpose our current Leftist-Moralist zeitgeist to any Puritan community of the 16th or 17th centuries, swap out 'blasphemy' or 'heresy' with 'transphobia' or 'racist' and voila! it all makes sense...our elite class betters are fresh out of the Social Justice seminary and have formed a tribal moral community and like all good Puritans they're zealously policing the boundaries of acceptable thought, opinion and behavior of their community.
Unfortunately what they think of as the community that they've been chosen by God/History to police just happens to be the cultural and intellectual life of the entire Anglosphere.
Just transpose our current Leftist-Moralist zeitgeist to any Puritan community of the 16th or 17th centuries, swap out 'blasphemy' or 'heresy' with 'transphobia' or 'racist' and voila! it all makes sense...our elite class betters are fresh out of the Social Justice seminary and have formed a tribal moral community and like all good Puritans they're zealously policing the boundaries of acceptable thought, opinion and behavior of their community.
Unfortunately what they think of as the community that they've been chosen by God/History to police just happens to be the cultural and intellectual life of the entire Anglosphere.
A reign of terror is most effective when its victims know not what will cause terror to descend upon them.