But so, too, is what more centrist leaders have been doing for much longer: using words as intended, yet with no intention of acting on them. And one form of denialism feeds the other: the outright denialism in the Mirror World is made thinkable by the baseline war on words and meaning in more liberal parts of our culture.

XREF: Connects to broader critiques of liberal bad-faith discourse enabling far-right extremism, echoing themes from Han's 'Infocracy' or Arendt on truth and politics.

Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, loc. 502