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Unelected bureaus of experts imposing their own enlightened social vision on a captive citizenry. Doesn’t get much more authoritarian than that.

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Can you be more specific, in particular where you think he’s calling for that? For example, he’s praising young people for voting en masse which seems like the polar opposite.

I'm curious what is being enforced, from your perspective.

I'm familiar with the social conservatives who believe that what the US gov't is doing with regards to marriage amounts to an infringement on their rights. Not sure if that's the argument you are trying to make here.

I’m broadly referring to the project of modern progressivism, a tidy summary of which could be: ”We will have an ideal society when we rid ourselves of the unintelligent in our way.”

If by “rid ourselves of the unintelligent” you mean improving public education, then yes, that is a goal. It’s a weird way to put it though.

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