Trump Takes on Autism Epidemic, by John Zmirak

I talk a lot about “learned helplessness” here. It’s the psychological state that animals tortured in labs eventually get to, where they don’t even bother flinching to get away from the pain. It’s also the end state our elites seek for citizens throughout the West — a condition George Orwell saw as the outcome of totalitarian politics, depicting it with searing power in 1984.

You’re just supposed to accept as normal that every city is a chaotic favela full of homeless lunatics, drug addicts, and criminals. Of course public schools are unusable shooting galleries where far-Left teachers try to groom eight-year-olds into developing gender dysphoria. Haven’t London streets always been blocked by hundreds of military-age Muslim males prostrating themselves toward Mecca? Surely that was depicted in Charles Dickens’s novels. Anyone suggesting otherwise is a far-right domestic extremist who deserves a visit from the police. …