In their upside down, Alice-in-Wonderland version of reality, the left has a point when they cast George Orwell as a prophet of our times.

Our world increasingly resembles the soul-crushing landscape of manipulation the English writer limned in the pages of “1984” and “Animal Farm.” Powerful forces in government, media, academia, and business have transformed much of the news into propaganda. During the Biden years, for example, the left cast their push for censorship as a commitment to truth and the coercive control of everyday life as the flowering of freedom. Talk about Orwellian.

Now that Donald Trump is back in office, they are once again insisting the president and his populist supports on the right are an existential threat to liberty.

Blessedly, however, we still live in a relatively open society. Many of us can see through and expose their deceit. That’s why Hans Christian Anderson rivals Orwell as our most useful modern prophet. His tale, “The Emperor’s New Clothes,” captures the daily experience of watching very serious people holding very serious conversations about total nonsense.

It’s why watching the news makes us channel our inner Elvis – give me a gun so I can shoot that........

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