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in times of crisis, when a nation's people are frightened, there are often calls for totalitarianism

Recent Examples on the Web Cancel culture is a form of soft totalitarianism: the persecution of one’s political opponents in the place of debate and the complete condemnation of those who make mistakes. — Madeleine Kearns, National Review, 24 Apr. 2022 Hannah Arendt called widespread loneliness an underlying condition for totalitarianism. — New York Times, 20 Apr. 2022 For Belarusians, the shift from gray to black, from autocracy to totalitarianism, was calculable in lives. — New York Times, 30 Mar. 2022 National Review was conceived in no small part to present — indeed to insist upon — a more resolute opposition to totalitarianism. — Peter J. Travers, National Review, 29 Mar. 2022 The story ends in 1945 thanks only to the focus on Europe and the democracy-versus-totalitarianism framing, which crops empire out of the picture. — Daniel Immerwahr, The Atlantic, 4 Apr. 2022 His efforts to clear his name take him on a serpentine journey that ultimately leads to a ring of dissidents bent on destroying American capitalism and replacing it with Nazi-style totalitarianism. — Gregg Opelka, WSJ, 21 Mar. 2022 The red flag and the swastika—the two main visual symbols of twentieth-century totalitarianism—emerged from years of ideological, aesthetic, and even spiritual movement-shaping. — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 7 Mar. 2022 How could a writer so zealous about exposing totalitarianism have had much time for other pursuits? — Peter Tonguette, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Feb. 2022 See More

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“Totalitarianism.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/totalitarianism. Accessed 23 May. 2022.

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