Every once and a while somebody comes along that knows an awful lot more about history and political ideology than the average person allowing him to be able to shed enormous amounts of light on contemporary politics. John Fonte is that kind of person. His
Why we have a culture war made the culture war perfectly clear to me. One thing reading his stuff makes me think is that conservatives can improve their understanding of politics immensly by studying the left, just because once you understand the leftist religion, the forces driving contemporary political conflicts make a lot more sense.
Orwell variously called it "catastrophic gradualism" or "oligarchical collectivism". Same stuff.