Allan Bloom wrote about this in his 1987 “The Closing of the American Mind.”
It’s a good thing we heeded his warnings back then, eh? If we had just leaned back in our recliners for another steaming hot cup of normalcy bias, things could have been really bad by now.
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Whoops, looks like that link is a scam. My apologies.
If the admin moderator would remove it, that would probably be best.