Long before the Overton window was a thing, Orwell described the same construct in “1984“. Making the unthinkable acceptable.
But Overton seems to explore the idea in more detail whereas Orwell incorporated this in his bigger story.
I buy it.
It’s at least to a large degree relevant to how things really work.
Many of these concepts are on a sliding scale depending on the issue and not all or nothing.
Agreed. Overton just coined to phrase that I think was widely known and understood within sociology and psychology circles for a long time.
Hell, Joseph goebbles used to talk about what most would consider the overton window all the time during the third Reich in the 1930s